Reduced resolution lane detection algorithm

Autonomous vehicles, as people all know, will have great impact to human transportation in the near future. In the vision system of autonomous vehicles, the lane detection has always been an important part. This paper describes an algorithm which can make the lane detection process faster and more applicable. The algorithm is mainly based on lane mark detection and Reduced Resolution lane detection algorithm (R
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algorithm). The accuracy of the lane detection, using this algorithm, would not be affected and the system, meantime, has a quicker reaction. The high frame per second result shows that the high performance lane detection algorithm is able to be applied to autonomous vehicles with improved success.