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Presentation 2020-12-16 13:00
A study on hierarchical estimation of road narrowing conditions by piled snow in in-vehicle cameras
Kozo Okumura, Sho Takahashi, Toru Hagiwara (Hokkaido Univ.)
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(in English) Snow fall regions are facing the challenges such as the aging and decrease in the number of the snow removal workers. Research on efficient collection of road conditions has been conducted and further improvement of road management is expected. Especially, the analysis of images obtained from in-vehicle cameras is expected to be a low-cost information collecting method. Therefore, by estimating the road narrowing conditions by piled snow using the images obtained from in-vehicle camera, the efficient of the snow removal is expected. In the proposed method, the images obtained from the in-vehicle camera are analyzed hierarchical two steps and classified into three classes of road narrowing conditions. In each step, the features that focus on the color and frequency of the image, and features that focus on road structures that are not affected by the lighting are calculated, respectively. In the last part of this paper, in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, three experiments are conducted. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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(in English) snow removal planning, / road maintenance / urban transportation / in-vehicle camera image / / / /  
Reference Info. ITE Tech. Rep., vol. 44, no. 34, ME2020-102, pp. 1-4, Dec. 2020.
Paper # ME2020-102 
Date of Issue 2020-12-09 (ME) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 1342-6893    Online edition: ISSN 2424-1970
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Conference Date 2020-12-16 - 2020-12-16 
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Conference Code 2020-12-ME-SIP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) A study on hierarchical estimation of road narrowing conditions by piled snow in in-vehicle cameras 
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Keyword(1) snow removal planning,  
Keyword(2) road maintenance  
Keyword(3) urban transportation  
Keyword(4) in-vehicle camera image  
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1st Author's Name Kozo Okumura  
1st Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University (Hokkaido Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Sho Takahashi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University (Hokkaido Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Toru Hagiwara  
3rd Author's Affiliation Hokkaido University (Hokkaido Univ.)
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Date Time 2020-12-16 13:00:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
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Paper # ME2020-102 
Volume (vol) vol.44 
Number (no) no.34 
Page pp.1-4 
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Date of Issue 2020-12-09 (ME) 


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