Drawing driver's attention to potentially dangerous objects
Name
302407323-MIT.pdf
Description
Full printable version
Size
14.23 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
2465302ebddec36945d936b9ec091627
Author(s)
Kurugöl, Orc̣un
Advisor(s)
Ichiro Masaki, Berthold K.P. Horn and John J. Leonard.
Date Issued
2008
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Drivers often have difficulties noticing potentially dangerous objects due to weather or lighting conditions or when their field of view is restricted. This thesis presents a display method for potentially dangerous objects to assist drivers in noticing dangerous situations. The object segment is denoised by adaptive thresholding, and the contrast, brightness and color of the segment are enhanced in order to make the object more noticeable. The contrast of the background is reduced to increase the effect of enhancement, and dynamic effects like changing the enhancement window size, window location, contrast, and brightness are added to increase the detectibility of the object by the driver. Experiments showed that our method increased the perceptibility of potentially dangerous objects.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43).
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2008.
Subjects
Mechanical Engineering.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Terms of Use
M.I.T. theses are protected by
copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but
reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written
permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.
copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but
reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written
permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.
Persistent DSpace Link
