Efficient extraction of road information for car navigation applications using road pavement markings obtained from aerial images

The efficient extraction of road information is increasingly important with the rapid growth of road-related services, such as car navigation systems, telematics, and location-based services. Conventional methods of creating and updating road information are expensive and time consuming. Therefore, a set of processes is required that collects the same information more efficiently. We propose a new method for collecting road information in complex urban areas from road pavement markings located on aerial images. This information includes lane and symbol markings that guide direction; the geometric properties of the pavement markings and their spatial relationships are analyzed. Road construction manuals and a series of cutting-edge techniques, including template matching, are used in our analysis. To validate our approach, the accuracy of our results was evaluated by comparing the data with manually extracted ground truth data. Our approach demonstrates that road information can be extracted efficiently to...