Nighttime Forward Vehicle Deceleration Detection System for Motorcycle

• Main Authors: Chuang, Shih-Hsien, 莊士賢
• Other Authors: Fang, Chiung-Yao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23198101113657008169

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 資訊工程學系 === 104 === Vision-based driver assistance systems and its related technologies were started to pay attention and develop from about 20 years ago. Visual analyzing the road situation in front of vehicles through camera to assist drivers. Vision-based driver assistance systems for automobile has been gradually consummated. In contrast, vision-based driver assistance systems for motorcycle went unheeded. The quantity of motorcycle and automobile increases year by year, and the quantity of motorcycle is fifty thousand more than automobile per year. Summarizes the above situation causes that automobile traffic accident rate reduces year after year, but motorcycle traffic accident rate rises every year. Daytime forward vehicle detection technology has been matured by degrees, but there is not so much researchers developing and researching at nighttime. By literatures in recent years of nighttime forward vehicle detection technology, many researches confirm the location of vehicle through related technologies about taillight detection. Therefore this study will use taillight detection to confirm the location of vehicle. Because it has to do a forward vehicle deceleration detection, forward vehicle decelerates or not will be determined by the brake-lights activates or not. When the motorcycle turns a corner, this study will adjust Region of Interest (ROI). There will not be traffic accidents with the forward vehicle when the vehicle stop moving as the red traffic light shows. So it hasn’t to do a taillight detection and brake-light detection. Therefore our system needs to detect forward vehicle move or not. The shape of taillight in the recent years is not only traditional circle but also irregular shape or elongated shape, and therefore this study will aim at the characteristic of surrounding light source around the taillight to do a taillight detection. This study will use illumination and threshold to determine brake-light on or off, and this dynamic threshold according to the distance between taillight and camera. The illumination of some activated brake-lights is lower than our determined threshold, and some non-brake of taillights are higher than it. It will lead to failure of brake-light detection. So our system will adjust threshold specifically to increase the accuracy rate of brake-light detection. Our system experiments on sunny day, rainy day, in the tunnel, and on many kinds of roads. The experiment result shows that it will get the higher accuracy rate without considering the consequence of taillight detection with the reflection of red lights. And our system expects that the reflection of red lights can be filter in the future to increase the accuracy rate of taillight detection. In this study, if it doesn’t consider raindrop dripping on the camera lens on rainy day, the accuracy rate of brake-light detection is about 90%