Dr. Radu Danescu

Multi-scale multi-modal perception of dynamic 3D environments based on the fusion of dense stereo, dense optical flow and visual odometry information

Funding agency: Romanian Department of Education and Research, PNII-IDEI Grant, PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-1086.

Project manager: Prof. Dr. Eng. Sergiu Nedevschi

Recently concluded research projects

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/

Sensorial Perception, Modeling and Representation of the World Model for Driving Assistance Systems

Beneficiary: Romanian Department of Education and Research, PNII-IDEI Grant, ID1522

Project manager: Prof. Dr. Eng. Sergiu Nedevschi

Site: http://cv.utcluj.ro/persens/

Experimental Low Earth Orbit Surveillance Stereoscope - LEOSCOP

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

Project coordinator: Fiz. Octavian Cristea, from BITNET CCSS

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

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

Selected papers

Peer reviewed journals

R. Danescu, C. Pantilie, F. Oniga, S. Nedevschi, “Particle Grid Tracking System for Stereovision Based Obstacle Perception in Driving Environments”, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, vol. 4, No. 1, March 2012, pp. 6-20.

R. Danescu, F. Oniga, S. Nedevschi, “Modeling and Tracking the Driving Environment with a Particle Based Occupancy Grid”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 12, No. 4, December 2012, pp. 1331-1342.

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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, pp. 272-282.

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S. Nedevschi, T. Marita, M. Vaida, R. Danescu, D. Frentiu, F. Oniga, C. Pocol, “Camera Calibration Method for Stereo Measurements”, Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics (CEAI), vol. 4, No. 2, 2002, pp. 21-28.

Conference proceedings

R. Danescu, “Obstacle Detection Using Dynamic Particle-Based Occupancy Grids”, International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 2011 (DICTA 2011), pp. 585-590.

F. Oniga, M. Miron, R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, “Automatic Recognition of Low Earth Orbit Objects From Image Sequences”, International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 2011, pp. 335–338.

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, “New Results in Stereovision-Based Lane Tracking”, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2011, pp. 230-235.

I. M. Chira, A. Chibulcutean, R. Danescu, “Real-Time Detection of Road Markings for Driving Assistance Applications”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, 2010, pp. 158-163, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7041-9.

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, “Detection and Classification of Painted Road Objects for Intersection Assistance Applications”, in Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference 2010 (IEEE-ITSC 2010), September 2010, Madeira, Portugal, pp. 433-438. Movie

R. Danescu, F. Oniga, S. Nedevschi, “Particle Grid Tracking System for Stereovision Based Environment Perception”, in Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE-IV 2010), June 2010, San Diego, USA, pp. 987-992.

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 Vehicles 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.

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

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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 (ICCP 2007), 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 (ICCP 2006), 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 (ICCP 2006), 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”, 1^st 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.

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

Last updated on February 2, 2012.