In autonomous driving, robustness and precision can be increased through additional information sources in the form of prior maps. To benefit from these maps, precise localization is necessary. Localization enables the vehicle to drive along planned trajectories using map information like lane geometry and static environment information. State-of-the-art localization methods often use feature base...Show More
We introduce a novel pose graph-based localization technique for autonomous driving that incorporates both sparse point features as well as lane markings on the road. Unlike many commonly used filter methods, our graph-based localization takes a much larger history of the trajectory into account. In addition, we utilize a multiple-hypothesis approach for data association for increased robustness a...Show More
In summer 2013, a Mercedes S-Class drove completely autonomously for about 100 km from Mannheim to Pforzheim, Germany, using only close-to-production sensors. In this project, called Mercedes Benz Intelligent Drive, stereo vision was one of the main sensing components. For the representation of free space and obstacles we relied on the so called Stixel World, a generic 3D intermediate representati...Show More
This article presents a stereo-vision based system for the recognition of dangerous situations at roundabouts. To this end, we investigate the necessary field of view and viewing direction using videos taken by a panoramic camera. Using the insights of these tests, we build up a stereo-vision system. This system is based on the well established disparity estimation scheme semi-global matching and ...Show More
This paper presents a stereo-vision based system for the recognition of dangerous situations at roundabouts. At first, we investigate the necessary field of view and viewing direction using videos taken by a panoramic camera. Using the insights of these tests we build up a stereo-vision system. This system is based on the well established disparity estimation scheme Semi-Global Matching and the re...Show More