IVS 09: Future Research in Vehicle Vision Systems

Several new technologies in the field of vehicle vision systems were showcased at the 2008 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 08) and the 2009 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IVS 09). Researchers have proposed different types of image-adjusting algorithms to intelligently rescale the lighting conditions to the driving context. Volkswagen's Marking Light, an intelligent lighting system gives prominence to a pedestrian who has an indistinct shape in the gloom. This system autonomously and dynamically controls the range and intensity of vehicle lights to help to achieve a continuous transition between low- and high-beam illumination. In the domain of weather condition identification, raindrop detection has garnered consistent interest.