Title: Vehicle recognition system based on customised HOG for automotive driver assistance system

Authors: Haythem Ameur; Amina Msolli; Abdelhamid Helali; Anis Youssef; Hassen Maaref

Addresses: Physics Department, Faculty of Science of Monastir, Laboratory of Micro-Optoelectronic and Nanostructure, University of Monastir, Avenue of Environment, 5019, Tunisia ' Physics Department, Faculty of Science of Monastir, Laboratory of Micro-Optoelectronic and Nanostructure, University of Monastir, Avenue of Environment, 5019, Tunisia ' Physics Department, Faculty of Science of Monastir, Laboratory of Micro-Optoelectronic and Nanostructure, University of Monastir, Avenue of Environment, 5019, Tunisia ' TELNET Innovation Labs, Technological pole El Ghazala, 2083 Ariana, Tunisia ' Physics Department, Faculty of Science of Monastir, Laboratory of Micro-Optoelectronic and Nanostructure, University of Monastir, Avenue of Environment, 5019, Tunisia

Abstract: In the last decade, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) made enormous progress. However, obstacle recognition tasks remain a challenge. In this paper, an optimisation vehicle detection system based on a customised histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) was presented and investigated to achieve an accurate vehicle recognition system. Our contribution in this work can be summarised in two fundamental points. First, a re-optimisation of the standard HOG parameters was made to get the best results for the car detection. Secondly, an amplification factor was distributed for each bin weight according to its contribution in the extracted car-features. Our studies using a linear support vector machine (SVM) classifier in MATLAB and heterogeneous databases of vehicle and non-vehicle images were made to achieve an excellent recognition rate that outperforms other similar approaches.

Keywords: advanced driver assistance systems; ADAS; HOG features; support vector machine; SVM; vehicle detection.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIEI.2017.086612

International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics, 2017 Vol.5 No.3, pp.283 - 295

Received: 01 Jun 2016
Accepted: 26 Aug 2016

Published online: 13 Sep 2017 *

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