ROSE: the road simulation environment

Panos Liatsis; Panogiotis Mitronikas

doi:10.1117/12.274479

15 May 1997 ROSE: the road simulation environment

Panos Liatsis, Panogiotis Mitronikas

Proceedings Volume 3012, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems IV; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274479
Event: Electronic Imaging '97, 1997, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Evaluation of advanced sensing systems for autonomous vehicle navigation (AVN) is currently carried out off-line with prerecorded image sequences taken by physically attaching the sensors to the ego-vehicle. The data collection process is cumbersome and costly as well as highly restricted to specific road environments and weather conditions. This work proposes the use of scientific animation in modeling and representation of real-world traffic scenes and aims to produce an efficient, reliable and cost-effective concept evaluation suite for AVN sensing algorithms. ROSE is organized in a modular fashion consisting of the route generator, the journey generator, the sequence description generator and the renderer. The application was developed in MATLAB and POV-Ray was selected as the rendering module. User-friendly graphical user interfaces have been designed to allow easy selection of animation parameters and monitoring of the generation proces. The system, in its current form, allows the generation of various traffic scenarios, providing for an adequate number of static/dynamic objects, road types and environmental conditions. Initial tests on the robustness of various image processing algorithms to varying lighting and weather conditions have been already carried out.

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Panos Liatsis and Panogiotis Mitronikas "ROSE: the road simulation environment", Proc. SPIE 3012, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems IV, (15 May 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274479

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