The outside appearance of cars is mostly defined through only two distinct materials – glass and car paint. While glass can rather easily be simulated by the simple physical laws of reflection and refraction, modeling car paint is more challenging. In this paper we present a framework for the efficient acquisition and realistic rendering of realworld car paint. This is achieved by building an e...

An integral component of Autonomous Driver Assistance system is the robust detection and tracking of lane markings. It is a rigid problem due to large appearance variations in lane markings caused by factors such as improper illumination (transition from day to night), occlusion (traffic on the road), shadows from objects, etc. In this paper, we present a robust partition based lane detection a...

This paper provides an overview of recent advancements in road signage, vehicle visibility and pavement marking technology developed by 3M and how they can be applied to improve safer navigation on the road, especially for large vehicles and compromised situations.

background, aim, method, result) max 200 words: An equipment for mobile measurement of road marking retroreflectivity, the LTL-M, has been developed by DELTA Light & Optics in Denmark. This instrument uses a different optical principle than the mobile instrument commonly used until now, the Ecodyn 30. The optical system used by the LTL-M might lead to better accuracy and repeatability. By simul...

Driving an automobile autonomously on rural roads requires knowledge about the geometry of the road. Furthermore, knowledge about the meaning of each lane of the road is needed in order to decide which lane should be taken and if the vehicle can do a lane change. This paper addresses the problem of extracting additional information about lanes. The information is extracted from the types of roa...

In driving assistance system (DAS), road marking’s data can provide important assistance for driving safety. As the input image usually includes unnecessary information, lane detection system usually needs to remove most unnecessary data except for the lane markings. In this paper, a road marking extraction method is proposed to separate the painted lane lines using a special designed band-pass...

An acute confusional state was observed to follow heavy exposure to polyurethane gloss paint fumes in a previously healthy 60 year old man. This state remitted over a 3-day period, but was followed by transient bone marrow suppression and evidence of liver cell damage. The corroborated absence of other toxins and the temporal association of exposure to paint fumes suggest that a volatile paint ...