Development of inter-vehicle distance measurement system using camera-equipped portable device

• Published in: 2017 17th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS) pp. 994 - 997
• Main Authors: Sasaki, Nobuo, Tomaru, Syuhei, Nakamura, Shiori
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems - ICROS 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Android operating system; Automobiles; Cameras; Distance measurement; Driving safety support system (DSSS); Error analysis; Image color analysis; image processing; inter-vehicle distance measurement; Licenses; morphological transformation; OpenCV

In this research, an inter-vehicle distance measurement application that runs on Android operating system was developed. The proposed method was based on a similarity relationship between the license plate and the image on the image sensor. Morphological transformation was implemented to improve the...