Dr. Radu Gabriel Danescu
Senior Lecturer

 

Dept. Address
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Computer Science Department,
15, C. Daicoviciu St., 400 020, Cluj Napoca

ROMANIA

 

Office: Baritiu str. 26, room 37

Phone: +40 264 401457

 

E-mail:
Radu.Danescu@cs.utcluj.ro

Teaching

 

Research Interests

 

Projects

 

Publications

 

The Image Processing Research Group

 

 

 

Photos

 


Dipl. Eng, Technical University of Clu-Napoca, 2002

MSc, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 2003

PhD CS, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 2009

 

Subjects for diploma work (page in Romanian, old)

 

Teaching (mostly in Romanian)
- Image Processing (Romanian – Procesarea imaginilor)
- Shape Recognition Systems (Romanian – Sisteme de Recunoastere a Formelor)

- Design with Microprocessors (Romanian – Proiectarea cu microprocesoare)

 

Research Interests
- Real-time image processing techniques
- Stereovision-based object recognition

- 3D Lane detection from moving vehicles
- Object tracking
Member of the Image Processing Research Group

 

Current research projects (selection)

 

Cooperative Intersection Safety – INTERSAFE 2

FP7 project funded by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Project manager (for UTCN): Prof. Dr. Eng. Sergiu Nedevschi

Site: http://www.intersafe-2.eu/

 

Experimental Low Earth Orbit Surveillance Stereoscope - LEOSCOP

Beneficiary: Romanian Department of Education and Research (partnership grant)

Project coordinator: Fiz. Octavian Cristea, from BITNET CSS

Project manager (for UTCN): Prof. Dr. Eng. Sergiu Nedevschi

Site: http://www.bitnet.info/proiecte/leoscop/leoscop.htm

 

Stereovision for Driving Assistance – ongoing project with Volkswagen AG – since 2001

Beneficiary: Volkswagen AG

Project manager: Prof. Dr. Eng. Sergiu Nedevschi

 

Selected papers

R. Danescu, F. Oniga, S. Nedevschi, M-M. Meinecke, “Tracking Multiple Objects Using Particle Filters and Digital Elevation Maps”, in Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IEEE-IV 2009), June 2009, Xi’An, China, pp. 88-93.

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, S. Bota, M-M. Meinecke, M. A. Obojski, “Stereovision-Based Sensor for Intersection Assistance”, book chapter in Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications, April 2009, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-00744-6, pp. 129-163.

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, “Probabilistic Lane Tracking in Difficult Road Scenarios Using Stereovision”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 10, No. 2, June 2009, ISSN 1524-9050, pp. 272-282.

Acces movie download page for this paper.

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, S. Bota and C. Vancea, “A Sensor for Urban Driving Assistance Systems Based on Dense Stereovision”, book chapter in “Stereo Vision” editor A. Bhatti, published by InTech Education and Publishing ,Vienna, November 2008, ISBN 978-953-7619-22-0.

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, M. M. Meinecke, T. B. To, “A Stereovision-Based Probabilistic Lane Tracker for Difficult Road Scenarios”, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2008 (IV2008), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 4-6, 2008

Download movie (AVI, 11 MB)

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, C. Pocol, M. M. Meinecke, “Stereo Image Processing for ADAS and Pre-Crash Systems”, in Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation (WIT 2008), Hamburg;  pp. 55-60.

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, T. B. To, “A Stereovision-Based Lane Detector for Marked and Non-Marked Urban Roads”, Proceedings of IEEE 3-rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 2007, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, M.M. Meinecke, T.B. To, “Lane Geometry Estimation in Urban Environments Using a Stereovision System”, Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2007), Seattle, USA, 2007

 

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, M.M. Meinecke, T. Graf, “Stereovision Based Vehicle Tracking in Urban Traffic Environments”, Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2007), Seattle, USA, 2007

 

S. Nedevschi,  R. Danescu, T. Marita,  F. Oniga, C. Pocol, S. Sobol, C. Tomiuc, C. Vancea, M.M. Meinecke, T. Graf, T. B. To, M.A. Obojski, “A Sensor for Urban Driving Assistance Systems Based on Dense Stereovision”, Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, (IV2007), Istanbul, Turkey, June 13-15, 2006

 

R. Danescu, S. Sobol, S. Nedevschi, T. Graf, Stereovision-Based Side Lane and Guardrail Detection, Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2006), Toronto

 

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, “Robust Real-Time Lane Delimiting Features Extraction” , in Proceedings of IEEE 2-nd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 1-2 Sept. 2006, Cluj-Napoca

 

S. Nedevschi,  T. Marita,  R. Danescu, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, S. Sobol, C. Tomiuc, C. Vancea, S. Bota, Stereovision Sensor for Driving Assistance, in Proceedings of IEEE 2-nd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 1-2 Sept. 2006, Cluj-Napoca

 

S. Nedevschi, F. Oniga, R. Danescu,  T. Graf, R. Schmidt, „Increased Accuracy Stereo Approach for 3D Lane Detection”, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, (IV2006) , June 13-15, 2006, Tokyo

 

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu,  T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, S. Sobol, T. Graf, R. Schmidt, “Driving Environment Perception Using Stereovision”, Procedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, (IV2005), June 2005, Las Vegas, USA, pp.331-336.

 

S. Nedevschi, R..Schmidt, T. Graf, R. Danescu, D. Frentiu, T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, “3D Lane Detection System Based on Stereovision”, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2004, Washington, USA

 

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, D. Frentiu, T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, Thorsten Graf, Rolf Schmidt, “High Accuracy Stereovision Approach for Obstacle Detection on Non-Planar Roads”, IEEE Inteligent Engineering Systems (INES), 2004, Cluj Napoca, Romania

 

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, D. Frentiu, T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, R. Schmidt, T. Graf, “Stereovision Approach For Obstacle Detection On Non-Planar Roads”, 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2004, Setubal, Portugal

 

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, D. Frentiu, T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, R. Schmidt, T. Graf, “High Accuracy Stereo Vision System for Far Distance Obstacle Detection”, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2004 (IV2004), Parma, Italy                             View Poster (PDF)

 

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, D. Frentiu, T. Marita, F. Oniga, C. Pocol , “Spatial Grouping of 3D Points from Multiple Stereovision Sensors”, International Conference of Networking, Sensing and Control, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan

 

S. Nedevschi, T. Marita, M. Vaida, R. Danescu, D. Frentiu, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, “Camera Calibration Method for Stereo Measurements – Extended Version”, Magazine of CONTROL ENGINEERING AND APPLIED INFORMATICS (CEAI),  Romania, 2002

 

 

Last updated on 15 December 2009.