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Creating Geo-Specific Road Databases For A Real-Time Interactive Driving Simulator, Dahai Guo Jan 2005

Creating Geo-Specific Road Databases For A Real-Time Interactive Driving Simulator, Dahai Guo

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Geo-specific road database development is important to a driving simulation system and a very labor intensive process. Road databases for driving simulation need high resolution and accuracy. Even though commercial software is available on the market, a lot of manual work still has to be done when the road crosssectional profile is not uniform. This research deals with geo-specific road databases development, especially for roads with non-uniform cross sections. In this research, the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) road information is used with aerial photos to accurately extract road boundaries, using image segmentation and data compression techniques. Image segmentation plays …