Vision-Based Lane-Changing Behavior Detection Using Deep Residual Neural Network

TL;DR

This paper presents a deep learning-based vision system for real-time lane change detection using front-view camera images, achieving high accuracy and faster response than human reaction times for safer autonomous driving.

Contribution

It introduces a novel deep residual neural network approach for lane change detection that is robust, real-time, and cost-effective, enhancing autonomous vehicle safety.

Findings

Achieves around 87% lane change detection accuracy.

Operates approximately 9 times faster than human reaction times.

Demonstrates robustness on real-world highway driving data.

Abstract

Accurate lane localization and lane change detection are crucial in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems for safer and more efficient trajectory planning. Conventional localization devices such as Global Positioning System only provide road-level resolution for car navigation, which is incompetent to assist in lane-level decision making. The state of art technique for lane localization is to use Light Detection and Ranging sensors to correct the global localization error and achieve centimeter-level accuracy, but the real-time implementation and popularization for LiDAR is still limited by its computational burden and current cost. As a cost-effective alternative, vision-based lane change detection has been highly regarded for affordable autonomous vehicles to support lane-level localization. A deep learning-based computer vision system is developed to detect the lane change behavior using the images captured by a front-view camera mounted on the vehicle and data from the inertial measurement unit for highway driving. Testing results on real-world driving data have shown that the proposed method is robust with real-time working ability and could achieve around 87% lane change detection accuracy. Compared to the average human reaction to visual stimuli, the proposed computer vision system works 9 times faster, which makes it capable of helping make life-saving decisions in time.