Road Boundary Detection in Challenging Scenarios
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper presents a new approach for automatic road detection in traffic cameras. The technique proposed here detects the dominant road boundary and estimates the vanishing point in images captured by traffic cameras under a wide range of lighting and environmental conditions, e.g., in images of unlit highways captured at night, etc. The approach starts by segmenting the traffic scene into a number of superpixel regions. The contours of these regions are used to generate a large number of edges which are organized into clusters of co-linearly similar sets using hierarchical bottom up clustering. A confidence level is assigned to each cluster using a statistical approach and the best clusters are chosen. Pairs of clusters with high confidence levels are then ranked and filtered according to image perspective and activity. The top ranked pair is selected as the road boundary. The proposed technique is tested on a real world dataset collected from the Ontario 401 traffic surveillance system. Experimental results demonstrate a distinct speedup and improvement in accuracy of the proposed technique in detecting the dominant road boundary in challenging scenarios compared to the state of the art Gabor filter based technique.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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