Pedestrians and Vehicles Recognition Based on Image Recognition and Laser Distance Detection

Abstract

Nowadays, most vehicles are equipped with the display device and dashboard camera. The former provides drivers with a variety of road information such as the reverse image and satellite navigation, the latter ensures the interests of the driver when the accidents happened. A laser range finder and a webcam are used in the proposed system. This system can provide drivers with driving safety information on the display device. A laser range finder which cuts up objects around the car through the breakpoint detection is involved with the distance and azimuth angle information of the surrounding environment. Also, Haar detection is used to extract the related features of the pedestrians and vehicles for image recognition system. It will be more accurate to recognize the pedestrians and vehicles on the road, if both image recognition system and information of laser distance are combined together. The proposed system can accurately recognize the pedestrians and vehicles according to the experimental results.