[Gustaf] has been playing around with device vision for a while and sent in his newest project in on our suggestion line. It’s a video based car radar system that can detect cars in a camera’s field of vision while cruising down the highway.
Like [Gustaf]’s previous experiments with device vision where he got a computer to recognize and count yellow cylinders and green rectangles, the radar build uses ADABoost and the AForge AI/Machine Vision C# framework. [Gustef] used an evolutionary algorithm to detect the presence of a car in a video frame, first by selecting 150 images of cars from a pre-recorded video, and the another 1,850 images were selected by a computer and confirmed as a car by a human eye.
With 2000 images of cars in its database, [Gustaf]’s device vision algorithm is able to detect a car in real-time as he drove down a beautiful Swedish highway. In addition to overlaying a rectangle underneath each car in a video frame and an awesome Terminator-style HUD in the upper best corner, [Gustaf] also a distance display above the hood of his car.
It’s an awesome build that makes us wonder if [Gustef] is building an autonomous car. even if he’s not, it really makes us want to install a video HUD in our whip, just to see this in action.