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This paper presents a method for lane boundaries detection which is not affected by the shadows, illumination and uneven road conditions. This method is based upon processing grayscale images using local gradient features, characteristic spectrum of lanes, and linear prediction. Firstly, points on the adjacent right and left lane are recognized using the local gradient descriptors. A simple linear prediction model is deployed to predict the direction of lane markers. The contribution of this paper is the use of vertical gradient image without converting into binary image(using suitable threshold), and introduction of characteristic lane gradient spectrum within the local window to locate the preciselane marking points along the horizontal scan line over the image. Experimental results show that this method has greater tolerance to shadows and low illumination conditions. A comparison is drawn between this method and recent methods reported in the literature.

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In this work, we assess the detection and classification of specially constructed targets in coincident airborne hyperspectral imagery (HSI) and high spatial resolution panchromatic imagery (HRI) in spectral, spatial, and joint spatial-spectral feature spaces. The target discrimination powers of the data-level and feature-level fusion of HSI and HRI are also directly compared in the spatial-spectral context using airborne imagery collected explicitly for this research. We show that in the case of Bobcat 2013 imagery, feature-level fusion of the HSI spectrum with spatial features derived from the coincident HRI data consistently results in fewer false alarms on the scene background as well as fewer misclassifications among the tested targets. Furthermore, this approach also outperforms schemes in which data-level fusion of the HSI and HRI imagery is performed prior to extracting spatial-spectral features.Index Terms-Hyperspectral imagery (HSI), image fusion, material identification, pansharpening, spatial-spectral feature extraction, target identification.

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