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Recent Applications of Computer Vision for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS)

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 507

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College of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China
Interests: intelligent perception for UAS; computer vision; vision-based intelligent surveillance
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College of Astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
Interests: guidance; navigation and control for UAS; intelligent control

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Dear Colleagues,

As one of the key technologies used in autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) are designed to automate, adapt, and enhance vehicle technology for safety and better driving. Computer vision-based ADASs utilize vision sensors to capture images with rich information and extract significant information through advanced and complicated image processing. Over the last three decades, several computer vision tasks have been applied to existing ADASs: depth estimation, object/obstacles detection and tracking, traffic state sensing, and traffic behavior understanding. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning technology, the algorithmic performances of vision-based ADASs have been further improved. However, several challenges and difficulties need to be addressed, such as creating real-time and lightweight deep learning networks for computer vision-based ADASs, risk assessments for vison algorithms for ADASs, the robustness of vision algorithms under different driving conditions, and hardware platforms for vision algorithms for ADASs. Therefore, this Special Issue is interested in articles, reviews, and reports that present the algorithms, theories and applications of computer vision for ADASs. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Computer vision-based enviromment perception;
  • Information fusion for ADASs;
  • Object detection for autonomous driving;
  • Depth estimation via deep learning;
  • Lightweight network design for ADASs;
  • Behavior understanding;
  • Image processing for autonomous driving;
  • Risk assessment of computer vison for ADASs;
  • System integration of computer vision-based ADASs.

We encourage the submission of original works highlighting the latest research and technical developments. Moreover, review papers and comparative studies are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Meng Ding
Prof. Dr. Yunfeng Cao
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • computer vision
  • advanced driver assistance system
  • environment perception
  • object detection
  • depth estimation
  • behavior understanding
  • risk assessment

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Monocular Vision-Based Depth Estimation of Forward-Looking Scenes for Mobile Platforms
by Li Wei, Meng Ding and Shuai Li
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(8), 4267; https://doi.org/10.3390/app15084267 - 12 Apr 2025
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The depth estimation of forward-looking scenes is one of the fundamental tasks for an Intelligent Mobile Platform to perceive its surrounding environment. In response to this requirement, this paper proposes a self-supervised monocular depth estimation method that can be utilized across various mobile [...] Read more.
The depth estimation of forward-looking scenes is one of the fundamental tasks for an Intelligent Mobile Platform to perceive its surrounding environment. In response to this requirement, this paper proposes a self-supervised monocular depth estimation method that can be utilized across various mobile platforms, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs). Building on the foundational framework of Monodepth2, we introduce an intermediate module between the encoder and decoder of the depth estimation network to facilitate multiscale fusion of feature maps. Additionally, we integrate the channel attention mechanism ECANet into the depth estimation network to enhance the significance of important channels. Consequently, the proposed method addresses the issue of losing critical features, which can lead to diminished accuracy and robustness. The experiments presented in this paper are conducted on two datasets: KITTI, a publicly available dataset collected from real-world environments used to evaluate depth estimation performance for AGV platforms, and AirSim, a custom dataset generated using simulation software to assess depth estimation performance for UAV platforms. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can overcome the adverse effects of varying working conditions and accurately perceive detailed depth information in specific regions, such as object edges and targets of different scales. Furthermore, the depth predicted by the proposed method is quantitatively compared with the ground truth depth, and a variety of evaluation metrics confirm that our method exhibits superior inference capability and robustness. Full article
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