LANE MARKER RECOGNITION

The present invention relates to a method for lane marker recognition, comprising: providing a filter bank with a plurality of different pairs of filters adapted to detect the left edge and the right edge of a specific type of a lane marker, respectively; receiving an image of a road;dividing the image of a road into a plurality of image segments, preferably wherein each image segment includes at least one row of pixels of the image of a road; andfor each of the image segments:applying a plurality of the pairs of filters of the filter bank to the image segment to generate a plurality of filter outputs; anddetermining which of the filter outputs correspond to a lane marker by using geometric information and appearance based information, wherein the geometric information describes allowable dimensions of a determined lane marker, and the appearance based information describes allowable pixel values of a determined lane marker.The invention further relates to a lane marker recognition system adapted to perform the above method.