VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date:  TODAY
Time: 3:30-4:40
Place: NSH 1507

Title: Activities of the LASMEA Laboratory and description of new road following approach

Speaker: Romuald Aufrere

Abstract:

First, this seminar presents the activities of the LASMEA laboratory.
This french laboratory is composed of 2 sub_groups.
The first (MATELEC) works on the materials for Electronic, and Electromagnetism.
The second (GRAVIR) works on Automatic, Vision and Robotic.
This presentation describes as well a method designed to detect and track roadsides
starting from images provided by an on-board monocular monochromic camera. The method is based on three modules.
(1) detection of  the roadsides in the image by a model driven algorithm. It uses a statistical model of the
lane sides which  manages the occlusions or imperfections of the road marking.
This model is initialized by an off-line training step.
(2) localization of the vehicle on its circulation lane.
(3) tracking to define a new search space of road edges for the next image.
Several results obtained on marked and not marked road images are presented.