Method and a system for detecting a road at night

Image analysis – Applications – Vehicle or traffic control

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C382S103000, C382S118000, C382S141000, C382S157000, C382S224000, C382S225000, C382S226000, C345S007000, C250S330000, C250S334000, C348S149000

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07936903

ABSTRACT:
A method of detecting a road feature in an image signal derived from an infrared-sensitive camera. The method, in overview, comprises processing an image frame by assigning binary values to pixels in the frame in response to their representative temperature, and then to analyze spatially the binary mask to identify regions of pixels having mutually similar assigned binary values. The road feature is subsequently found from the analysis of the identified regions of mutually similar binary values and a visual indication of the road feature in relation to the image frame provided to the user.

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