Fossati, AndreaSchönmann, PatrickFua, Pascal2010-06-242010-06-242010-06-24201110.1007/s00138-009-0243-6https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/51270WOS:000287205100017Detecting car taillights at night is a task which can nowadays be accomplished very fast on cheap hardware. We rely on such detections to build a vision-based system that, coupling them in a rule-based fashion, is able to detect and track vehicles. This allows the generation of an interface that informs a driver of the relative distance and velocity of other vehicles in real time and triggers a warning when a potentially dangerous situation arises. We demonstrate the system using sequences shot using a camera mounted behind a car’s windshield.Vehicle trackingReal-timeLight detectiontext::journal::journal article::research article