Road Segmentation using Semantic Segmentation Networks for ADAS 
JongBae Kim
JongBae Kim, Department of Computer and Software, Sejong Cyber University, Seoul, S. Korea.
Manuscript received on 28 August 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on 03 September 2019. | Manuscript published on 30 September 2019. | PP: 1740-1743 | Volume-8 Issue-11, September 2019. | Retrieval Number: K15300981119/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.K1530.0981119
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Abstract: In this paper, we propose a method to automatically segment the road area from the input road images to support safe driving of autonomous vehicles. In the proposed method, the semantic segmentation network (SSN) is trained by using the deep learning method and the road area is segmented by utilizing the SSN. The SSN uses the weights initialized from the VGC-16 network to create the SegNet network. In order to fast the learning time and to obtain results, the class is simplified and learned so that it can be divided into two classes as the road area and the non-road area in the trained SegNet CNN network. In order to improve the accuracy of the road segmentation result, the boundary line of the road region with the straight-line component is detected through the Hough transform and the result is shown by dividing the accurate road region by combining with the segmentation result of the SSN. The proposed method can be applied to safe driving support by autonomously driving the autonomous vehicle by automatically classifying the road area during operation and applying it to the road area departure warning system.
Keywords: Road segmentation, line detection, ADAS, deep learning, semantic segmentation.
Scope of the Article: Deep Learning