Digital imaging for assessing and improving highway visibility

Ifsttar is working with the scientific network of the French Department of Transportation to foster innovative camera-based solutions for assessing and improving highway visibility. This paper proposes an overview of the computer vision methods which result from this work. It encompasses camera-based advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), camera-based traffic monitoring systems and camera-based road inspection systems. It also tackles the question of validation.

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