Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition

Lane detection on roads is essential for autonomous vehicles. Most previous studies detected the area of the road and all possible lanes built on it, whereas only the specific lane that the car is currently traveling on should be detected. In addition, they are complex, slow, fail under degraded roa...

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Main Author: Khaled H. Almotairi
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Language:English
Published: Springer 2022-09-01
Series:Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
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description Lane detection on roads is essential for autonomous vehicles. Most previous studies detected the area of the road and all possible lanes built on it, whereas only the specific lane that the car is currently traveling on should be detected. In addition, they are complex, slow, fail under degraded road conditions, and cannot be generalized to different scenarios. Moreover, these methods require costly hardware and under-consider road conditions. In this study, the ego lane, which is the lane a car is currently traveling on, is detected. This study proposes an adaptive hybrid lane detection method that adopts the advantages of traditional vision-based and machine-learning-based approaches. The proposed method involves a set of preprocessing methods for obtaining the candidate lane borders from an image in any degraded state. Subsequently, numerical features about the boundaries of the candidate lanes are extracted and used by a model of the k-nearest neighbor algorithm and the Gaussian process for final lane discovery. A set of experiments were conducted using the KITTI dataset to evaluate the performance. The results show that the proposed method overcomes various challenges. It is relatively simple and fast; it requires low-cost devices and processes and can be generalized without major modifications.
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spelling doaj-art-a3b8c45d2f3b4c5bb59c04d9c01f7d8a2025-08-20T03:52:02ZengSpringerJournal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences1319-15782022-09-013485261527210.1016/j.jksuci.2022.06.008Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface conditionKhaled H. Almotairi0Computer Engineering Department, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi ArabiaLane detection on roads is essential for autonomous vehicles. Most previous studies detected the area of the road and all possible lanes built on it, whereas only the specific lane that the car is currently traveling on should be detected. In addition, they are complex, slow, fail under degraded road conditions, and cannot be generalized to different scenarios. Moreover, these methods require costly hardware and under-consider road conditions. In this study, the ego lane, which is the lane a car is currently traveling on, is detected. This study proposes an adaptive hybrid lane detection method that adopts the advantages of traditional vision-based and machine-learning-based approaches. The proposed method involves a set of preprocessing methods for obtaining the candidate lane borders from an image in any degraded state. Subsequently, numerical features about the boundaries of the candidate lanes are extracted and used by a model of the k-nearest neighbor algorithm and the Gaussian process for final lane discovery. A set of experiments were conducted using the KITTI dataset to evaluate the performance. The results show that the proposed method overcomes various challenges. It is relatively simple and fast; it requires low-cost devices and processes and can be generalized without major modifications.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319157822002038Gaussian processK-nearest neighborLane detectionMachine learning-based lane detectionSelf-drive carVision-based lane detection
spellingShingle Khaled H. Almotairi
Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition
Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
Gaussian process
K-nearest neighbor
Lane detection
Machine learning-based lane detection
Self-drive car
Vision-based lane detection
title Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition
title_full Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition
title_fullStr Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition
title_full_unstemmed Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition
title_short Hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition
title_sort hybrid adaptive method for lane detection of degraded road surface condition
topic Gaussian process
K-nearest neighbor
Lane detection
Machine learning-based lane detection
Self-drive car
Vision-based lane detection
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319157822002038
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