Mapping of linear road features with the inverse visual detector observation model

Mapping of linear road features with the inverse visual detector observation model

Oleg S. Shipit’ko
Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kharkevich Institute), Junior Research Scientist, 19-1, Bolshoy Karetny per., Moscow, 127051, Russia, tel.: +7(964)509-27-21, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Anatoly E. Kabakov
Kharkevich Institute, Intern Research Scientist, 19-1, Bolshoy Karetny per., Moscow, 127051, Russia, tel.: +7(985)305-94-62, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Received 16 June 2021

Abstract
The paper proposes an algorithm for mapping linear features detected on the roadway — road marking lines, curbs, road boundaries. The algorithm is based on a mapping method with an inverse observation model. An inverse observation model is proposed to take into account the spatial error of the linear feature visual detector. The influence of various parameters of the model on the resulting quality of mapping was studied. The mapping algorithm was tested on data recorded on an autonomous vehicle while driving at the test site. The quality of the mapping algorithm was assessed according to several quality metrics known from the literature. In addition, the mapping problem was considered as a binary classification problem, in which each map cell may or may not contain the desired feature, and the ROC curve and AUC-ROC metric were used to assess the quality. As a naive solution, a map was built containing all detected linear features without any additional filtering. For the map built on the basis of the raw data, the AUC-ROC was 0.75, and as a result of applying the algorithm, the value of 0.81 was reached. The experimental results have confirmed that the proposed algorithm can effectively filter noise and false-positive detections of the detector, which confirms the applicability of the proposed algorithm and the inverse observation model for solving practical problems.

Key words
Linear features, mapping, inverse observation model, road map, autonomous vehicle, digital road map.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31776/RTCJ.9307

Bibliographic description
Shipit'ko, O. and Kabakov, A., 2021. Mapping of linear road features with the inverse visual detector observation model. Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, 9(3), pp.214-224.

UDC identifier:
004.942

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