Estimating ambient visibility in the presence of fog: a deep convolutional neural network approach
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Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract
© 2019, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. Next-generation intelligent transportation systems are based on the acquisition of ambient data that influence traffic flow and safety. Among these, is the ambient visibility range whose estimation, in the presence of fog, is extremely useful for next-generation intelligent transportation systems. However, existing camera-based approaches are based on “engineered features” extraction methods that use computer algorithms and procedures from the image processing field. In this contribution, a novel approach to estimate visibility range under foggy weather conditions is proposed which is based on “learned features” instead. More precisely, we use AlexNet deep convolutional neural network (DCNN), trained with raw image data, for feature extraction and a support vector machine (SVM) for visibility range estimation. Our quantitative analysis showed that the proposed approach is very promising in estimating the visibility range with very good accuracy. The proposed solution can pave the way towards intelligent driveway assistance systems to enhance awareness of driving weather conditions and hence mitigate the safety risks emanating from fog-induced low visibility conditions.
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Publisher
Springer London
Last Page
12
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Keywords
Ambient intelligence, Atmospheric visibility, Deep convolutional neural networks, Intelligent transportation systems, Road safety, Ubiquitous technologies
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Recommended Citation
Outay, Fatma; Taha, Bilal; Chaabani, Hazar; Kamoun, Faouzi; Werghi, Naoufel; and Yasar, Ansar Ul Haque, "Estimating ambient visibility in the presence of fog: a deep convolutional neural network approach" (2019). All Works. 1529.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/1529
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