An Intelligent Night Vision System for （一个聪明的夜视系统）.pdf

15-3 MVA2009 IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, May 20-22, 2009, Yokohama, JAPAN An Intelligent Night Vision System for Automobiles Tsz-Ho Yu, Yiu-Sang Moon, Jiansheng Chen, Hung-Kwan Fung, Hoi-Fung Ko and Ran Wang Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong {thyu, ysmoon, jschen, hkfung, hfko, rwang}@.hk Abstract Computer vision techniques, such as image enhancement, object detection and recognition etc., are used intensively We present an intelligent night vision system for in IVAN to analyze videos captured by the infrared cam- automobiles in this paper. This system, implemented eras. Road sign detection and recognition functions are mainly by adopting infrared cameras and computer vi- implemented to reduce the probability of missing traffic sion techniques, aims at enhancing safety and signs in dark environments. The system can be operated convenience of night driving by providing functionalities by the driver through a touch screen and audio notifica- such as adaptive night vision, road sign detection and tions are used for informing the driver of the possible recognition, scene zooming and spotlight projection. We dangers. have tested the system in both simulated laboratory en- The rest of this paper is organized a follows. Section 2 vironments and in field highway environments. Initial int