Edge Point Grouping for Line Detection

Shigang LI 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E95-D  No.6  pp.1713-1716
Publication Date: 2012/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Image Recognition, Computer Vision
Keyword: 
driving assistance,  lane marking detection,  Hough transform,  and gradient direction, 

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a method of accurately detecting the boundary of narrow stripes, such as lane markings, by employing gradient cues of edge points. Using gradient direction cues, the edge points at the two sides of the boundary of stripes are classified into two groups before the Hough transform is applied to extract the boundary lines. The experiments show that the proposed method improves significantly the performance in terms of the accuracy of boundary detection of narrow stripes over the conventional approaches without edge point grouping.