Development of a smart-phone based augmented reality view application for driver assistance systems

The goal of this thesis is to develop a smartphone application for augmented reality view; it is an initial attempt to realize a driver assistance functionality using just a smartphone and an external lens. Initially it depicts a brief analysis about the most feasible development technologies for mobile application development, selecting a proper lens and positioning of the smartphone in the car. Later, it discusses the strategies for real-time object detection using OpenCV; the video frames are processed using the strategies to find patterns in the videos. Different techniques like Hough-line transform, watershed, contour detection, color segmentation, color thresholding and HAAR cascades are implemented and compared in terms of real time detection of the desired objects. Then a unified algorithm is implemented for the given scenario which overcomes the challenges faced during the conceptualization phase. Finally, the results are depicted with the snapshots of the real time detection done from the smartphone and then evaluated against the vision of the application and the achieved tasks. This thesis is concluded by stating the prospects of this mobile application in the future