The previous knowledge of road environments is vital for driver assistance systems, and an accurate map, which provides information on the roads to be traveled, is desired. Accurate road information map preparation is still costly because a highly accurate positioning s...

Because of the popularity of rich content, such as video files, the amount of traffic on the Internet continues to grow every year. Not only is the overall traffic increasing, but also the temporal fluctuations in traffic are increasing, and differences in the amounts o...

<p>This research aimed to assess the tsunami flow velocity and height reduction produced by a planned elevated road parallel to the coast of Banda Aceh, called the Banda Aceh Outer Ring Road (BORR). The road will transect several lagoons, settlements, and bare land arou...

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We propose a method to remove moving objects from an in-vehicle camera image sequence by fusing multiple image sequences. Driver assistance systems and services such as Google Street View require images containing no moving object. The proposed scheme consists of three ...

We propose an optical flow processor, which allows real-Time processing of WXGA 30-fps at 178.3 MHz. By introducing the SOR method and a pipeline operation for the Gauss-Seidel method to the iterative flow calculation, computational complexity can be reduced to 14.5% wh...

Blocking and starving of a buffered production line is investigated from the viewpoint of nonlinear dynamics. A strategy to avoid blocking and starving, which utilizes frequency response and -norm, is proposed. The proposed strategy does not need to tune all the work ce...

This paper explores the effect of business connectivity between cities on their air traffic connections, and in turn on their place in a region's urban hierarchy. Its focus of attention is East Asia, where economic development is underpinned by a complex set of internat...

Avoiding human overtrust in machines is a vital issue to establish a socially acceptable advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). However, research has not clarified the effective way of designing an ADAS to prevent driver overtrust in the system. It is necessary to de...

Cities are embracing data-intensive applications to maximize their constrained transportation networks. Platforms such as Google offer route planning services to mitigate the effect of traffic congestion. These use remote servers that require an Internet connection, whi...