Assignment 2 Cameras can be used to identify the road lane markings to guide vehicles to drive within the lane markings

Assignment 2

Cameras can be used to identify the road lane markings to guide vehicles to drive within the lane markings. In this assignment students are asked to develop a method that can identify the mid-line between the lane markings, indicated as “Driving path”, in the following four road images:

The developed method (with the same method and threshold values to work for all 4 cases) should be implemented using MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox. In particular, the developed method should automatically draw a line that indicates the trace of mid-points between the lane markings, indicated by “Driving path”, in each image. Students can approach this using following steps:
• Convert images to black and white with thresholding
• Make each line solid by ‘dilating’ scatter lines
• Reduce the thickness of each solid line by ‘thinning’ process
• Using Hough Transform to work out the two most prominent lines
• Calculate and plot the mid-points between these two lines in the image

Clearly, above steps are NOT the only ways that this assignment can be solved. Students are encouraged to come up with their own approaches.
Students will be provided with four image files of Figures 1 (a) to 1(d) – can be downloaded from vUWS. The developed method should work for all images without changing any parameters in the program.
Assessment and time schedule:
This project forms a part of the assessment of the unit. Students can work in group of 2 students (or individually). The attendance at the tutorial sessions for this project will be recorded. Students will be assessed