A general framework for road marking detection and analysis

Road markings are paintings on road surface to provide traffic guidance information for vehicles and pedestrians. In this paper, we propose a general framework for road marking detection and analysis, which is able to support various types of markings. Marking contours of different types are extracted indiscriminately from a image processing procedure, and sent to respective modules for independent classification and analysis. Four common types of markings are studied as examples in this paper, including lanes, arrows, zebra-crossings, and words. Our proposed method is tested through experiments, and shows good performance.

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