A low-cost hybrid vision system for intelligent cruise control applications
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Spaeth, Mark Christian, 1974-
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Hae-Seung Lee.
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In recent years, automobiles have become increasingly computerized and varying degrees of intelligent control has been integrated into automotive systems. A natural extension of this trend is full intelligent and autonomous control of vehicle by onboard computer systems. This thesis presents the design, development, and construction of a low-cost, low-power vision system suitable for on-board automated vehicle systems such as intelligent cruise control. The apparatus leverages vision algorithms, simplified by a prescribed camera geometry, to compute depth maps in real-time, given the input from three imagers mounted on the vehicle. The early vision algorithms are implemented using Dr. David Martin's ADAP mixed signal array processor. The back-end algorithms are mplemented in software on PC for simplicity, but could easily be implemented in hardware in a later design. The final apparatus was able to compute depth maps at a rate of 24 frames per second, limited only by the interrupt latency of the PC executing the algorithms.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-96). This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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1999Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science