Neural Networks for Omni-View Road Image Understanding

This paper presents a new approach to the outdoor road scene understand-ing by using omni-view images and backpropagation networks. Both the road directions used for vehicle heading and the road categories used for velilcle local-ization are determined by the integrated system. There are three main features about the work. First, an omni-view image sensor is used to extract image samples, and the original image is preprocessed so that the inputs of the net-work is rotation-invariant and simple. Second, the …