Real-Time Line Marker Detection for Night-Time Blind Spot Monitoring System in Suburb Area

This paper presents a road line marker detection method in order to support night-time Blind Spot Monitor (BSM). In our BSM system, to detect vehicles in blind spot in a real-time manner, line mark detection method is necessary for the determination of exact detection window location and size. We developed a fast line marker detection method which is robust in the night-time suburb environment. Our method depends on the dividing windows and adopting local thresholds of line marker intensity for each window adaptively. We demonstrate a reliable detection performance in a real road environment and our method is light to achieve real-time operation in embedded ADAS devices.