Joint Video-CANbus Sensing Framework for Enhanced Automotive Safety

In this paper, a sensing framework suited to intelligent vehicles design for automotive safety is presented. The extraction of the intrinsic parameters of the vehicle collected through the Controller Area Network serial bus (CANbus) is discussed and the implementation of a user interface for data visualization is shown. Algorithms for road lanes detection, vehicles detection and tracking and facial traits detection and tracking have been applied to acquired video streams and combined with CANbus data as speed, longitudinal acceleration and steering angle. Preliminary results concerning joint videoCANbus context analysis are presented demonstrating the potential of the proposed system to impact design strategies of next generation intelligent vehicles.