Scene Analysis and Organization of Behavior in Driver Assistance Systems

To reduce the number of traffic accidents and to increase the drivers comfort, the thought of designing driver assistance systems rose in the past years. Fully or partly autonomously guided vehicles, particularly for road traffic, pose high demands on the development of reliable algorithms. Principal problems are caused by having a moving observer in predominantly natural environments. At the Institut für Neuroinformatik methods for analyzing driving relevant scenes by computer vision are developed in cooperation with several partners from the automobile industry. In this paper we present a solution for a driver assistance system. We concentrate on the aspects of video-based scene analysis and organization of behavior.