MTL Annual Report

Collaborators

• J. F. Coughlin
• B. K. P. Horn
• H.-S. Lee
• C. G. Sodini
• J. M. Sussman

Graduate Students

• Y. Fang, Research Assistant, EECS
• B. Bilgic, Research Assistant, EECS

Visting Scientists

• T.H. Fang
• S. Yokomitsu

Support Staff

• V. DiNardo, Administrative Assistant II

Publications

Yajun Fang, Sumio Yokomitsu, Berthold Horn, Ichiro Masaki, “A Layered-based Fusion-based Approach to Detect and Track the Movements of Pedestrians through Partially Occluded Situations.” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2009 (IV2009). Best Conference Poster Award” for The IEEE 2009 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

Berthold Horn, Yajun Fang, Ichiro Masaki, “Hierarchical framework for direct gradient-based time-to-contact estimation.” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2009 (IV2009).

Fang. Y., Horn. B.K.P., Masaki I., “Systematic information fusion methodology for static and dynamic obstacle detection in ITS.” 15th World Congress On ITS, 2008. First Prize for “Student Essay Competition” 15th  World Congress on ITS

Horn. B.K.P., Fang. Y., Masaki I., “Time to Contact Relative to a Planar Surface.” Berthold Horn, Yajun Fang, Masaki. I., IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2007 (IV2007).

Herrington, W.F., Jr., Horn. B. K. P. and Masaki. I., “Application of the Discrete Haar Wavelet Transform to Image Fusion for Nighttime Driving”, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2005 (June 6-8, 2005),

Fang, Y., K. Yamada, Y. Ninomiya,   B.  Horn and Masaki. I., “A Shape-Independent-Method for Pedestrian Detection with Far Infrared-images.”  Special issue on “In-Vehicle Computer Vision Systems” of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.53, No.6, Nov. 2004, pp.1679-1697.

Fang, Y., K. Yamada, Y. Ninomiya, Horn. B. K. P. and Masaki. I., “Comparison between Infrared-image-based and Visible-image-based Approaches for Pedestrian Detection,” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2003 (IV2003, pp.505-510). First Prize, Best Paper Award by IEEE ITS Council

Kato. T., Ninomiya. Y., Masaki. I., “An Obstacle Detection Method by Fusion of Radar and Motion Stereo.” SICE Annual Conference in Fukui, August 4-6, 2003

Fang, Y., Masaki. I. and  Horn. B. K. P., “Depth-Based Target Segmentation for Intelligent Vehicles: Fusion of Radar and Binocular Stereo,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.3, No.3, Sept. 2002, pp.196-202.

Kato. T., Ninomiya. Y., Masaki. I., “An Obstacle Detection Method by Fusion of Radar and Motion Stereo.”   IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.3, No.3, Sep. 2002, pp.182-188.

Kato. T., Ninomiya. Y., Masaki. I., “Preceding vehicle recognition based on learning from sample images.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.3, No.4, Dec. 2002, pp.252-260.

Fang, Y., Masaki. I. and Horn. B. K. P., “Distance/Motion Based Segmentation under Heavy Background Noise,” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2002 (IV2002, pp.483-488).

Fang, Y., Ninomiya. Y., Masaki. I., “Intelligent Transportation Systems, Challenges and Opportunities,” The 2^nd International Symposium on Multimedia Mediation Systems, 2002 (pp.72-77). Invited Paper

Fang, Y., Masaki. I. and Horn. B. K. P., “Distance Range Based Segmentation in Intelligent Transportation Systems: Fusion of Radar and Binocular Stereo,” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2001 (IV2001, pp.171-176).

Yajun Fang, Marcelo Mizuki, Berthold Horn, Ichiro Masaki, “TV Camera-based Vehicle Motion Detection and its Chip Implementation.” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000  (IV2000, pp.134-139).