Publications

Books

S. Nedevschi, R. Danescu, F. Oniga, T. Marita, Tehnici de viziune artificiala in conducerea automata a autovehiculelor, U.T. PRESS, Cluj-Napoca, 2012, ISBN 978-973-662-787-3, 203 pagini.

S. Nedevschi, T. Marita, R. Danescu, F. Oniga, R. Brehar, I. Giosan, C. Vicas, Procesarea imaginilor. Indrumator de laborator, U.T. PRESS, Cluj-Napoca, 2013, ISBN 978-973-662-796-5, 102 pagini.

 

Book Chapters

A. Vatavu and S. Nedevschi, "Vision Based Motion Estimation of Obstacles in Dynamic Unstructured Environments", Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), Volume 283, Springer International Publishing, pp 235-249, 2014.

Papers in ISI Journals

2016

M. Drulea, A. Vatavu, Sz. Mandici, S. Nedevschi, “An Omnidirectional Stereo System For Logistic Plants. Part 1: Calibration And Multi-Channel Rectification“, accepted in Proceedings of Romanian Academy, series A.

M. Drulea, A. Vatavu, Sz. Mandici, S. Nedevschi, “An Omnidirectional Stereo System For Logistic Plants. Part 2: Stereo Reconstruction And Obstacle Detection Using Digital Elevation Maps“, accepted in Proceedings of Romanian Academy, series A.

Radu Danescu , Razvan Itu, Andra Petrovai, Generic Dynamic Environment Perception Using Smart Mobile Devices, Sensors 2016, 16(10), 1721

 

2015

C. Vicas, S. Nedevschi, “Detecting Curvilinear Features Using Structure Tensors”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 3874 – 3887, Nov. 2015.

V. Popescu, S. Nedevschi,  R. Danescu, T. Marita,  A Lane Assessment Method Using Visual Information Based on a Dynamic Bayesian Network, JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, Vol. 19. No. 3, pp. 225-239, Jul. 2015.

A. Ciurte, S. Nedevschi, I. Rasa, Systems of nonlinear algebraic equations with unique solution, NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 367-376, Feb. 2015.

A. Vatavu, R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, "Stereovision-Based Multiple Object Tracking in Traffic Scenarios Using Free-Form Obstacle Delimiters and Particle Filters", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 498-511, Feb.2015.

M. Drulea, A. Vatavu, Sz. Mandici, S. Nedevschi, An Omnidirectional Stereo System For Logistic Plants. Part 1: Calibration And Multi-Channel Rectification, in evaluation at Proceedings of Romanian Academy, series A.

 

M. Drulea, A. Vatavu, Sz. Mandici, S. Nedevschi, An Omnidirectional Stereo System For Logistic Plants. Part 2: Stereo Reconstruction And Obstacle Detection Using Digital Elevation Maps, in evaluation at Proceedings of Romanian Academy, series A.

 

2014

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, “A Particle-Based Solution for Modeling and Tracking Dynamic Digital Elevation Maps”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 15, No. 3, Pages: 1002-1015, Jun. 2014.

 

2013

M. Drulea, S. Nedevschi, "Motion estimation using the correlation transform", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 3260-3270, Dec. 2013.

 

S. Nedevschi, V. Popescu, D. Radu, M. Tiberiu, F. Oniga, "Accurate Ego-Vehicle Global Localization at Intersections through Alignment of Visual Data with Digital Map”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol.14, No. 2, pp. 673-687, Jun. 2013.

 

2012

C. Pantilie, S. Nedevschi, "SORT-SGM: Sub-pixel Optimized Real-Time Semi-Global Matching for Intelligent Vehicles”, in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 1032-1042, Mar. 2012.

 

I. Haller, S. Nedevschi, "Design of Interpolation Functions for Sub-Pixel Accuracy Stereo-Vision Systems", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 889-898, Feb. 2012.

 

A. Ciurte, S. Nedevschi, I. Rasa, "An algorithm for solving some nonlinear systems with applications to extremum problems", in Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1137-1150, Jun. 2012.

 

R. Danescu, C. Pantilie, F. Oniga, S. Nedevschi, "Particle Grid Tracking System Stereovision Based Obstacle Perception in Driving Environments", IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS MAGAZINE, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 6-20, Sep. 2012

 

R. Danescu, F. Oniga, S. Nedevschi, "Modeling and Tracking the Driving Environment with a Particle Based Occupancy Grid", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.12, Issue 4, pp. 1331 – 1342, Dec. 2011.

 

 

Conference Papers

2016

Szilard Mandici, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Real-Time Multi-Resolution Digital Elevation Map Creation using the Sensor Model of a Stereovision Sensor”, Proceeding of 2016 IEEE ITSC, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1- 4 November, 2016, pp. 608-615.

Arthur Costea, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Fast traffic scene segmentation using multi-range features from multi-resolution filtered and spatial context channels”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE IV Symposium, Goteborg, Sweden, 19-22 June, 2016, pp. 328-334.

Arthur Costea, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Semantic Channels for Fast Pedestrian Detection”, Proceedings of CVPR 2016, Las Vegas, USA, June, 2016, pp. 2360-2368.

Cristian Vancea, Vlad Miclea, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Improving stereo reconstruction by sub-pixel correction using histogram matching” Proceedings of of 2016 IEEE IV Symposium, Goteborg, Sweden, 19-22 June, 2016, pp. 335 - 341.

Claudiu Decean, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Stereoscopic Scene Flow estimation with global motion prior”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 199 - 206.

Bogdan Coseriu, Mihai Negru, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Contrast Restoration of Foggy Images on the ZYNQ Embedded Platform”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 207 - 214.

Cristian Vancea, Sergiu Nedevschi, “FPGA-based stereo vision hardware for generating dense disparity maps”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 225 - 232.

Vlad Miclea, Sergiu Nedevschi, ”Optimizing Census-based Semi Global Matching by Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 193 - 198.

Raluca Brehar, Cristian Vancea, Florin Oniga, Mihai Negru, Sergiu Nedevschi, “A Study of the Impact of HOG and LBP Based Temporal Association On Far Infrared Pedestrian Detection”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 263 - 268.

Anca Marginean, Andra Petrovai, Radu Slavescu, Mihai Negru, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Enhancing Digital Maps to Support Reasoning on Traffic Sign Compliance”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 277 - 284.

Andra Petrovai, Radu Danescu, Mihai Negru, Cristian Cosmin Vancea, Sergiu Nedevschi, “A Stereovision based Rear-End Collision Warning System on Mobile Devices”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 285 - 292.

Mircea Muresan, Sergiu Nedevschi, Radu Danescu, “Patch warping and local constraints for improved block matching stereo correspondence”, Proceedings of 2016 IEEE ICCP, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 7-9 September 2016, pp. 321 - 327.

Robert Varga, Sergiu Nedevschi, “Robust Pallet Detection for Automated Logistics Operations”, VISAPP 2016, Rome, pp. 470-477.

Radu Danescu, Andra Petrovai, Razvan Itu, Sergiu Nedevschi, Generic Obstacle Detection for Mobile Devices Using a Dynamic Intermediate Representation, PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL AFRO-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR INDUSTRIAL ADVANCEMENT (AECIA 2015), Book Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing   Volume: 427   Pages: 629-639   Published: 2016

Sergiu Nedevschi, “Sisteme inteligente de conducere autonomă a vehiculelor”, la Zilele Academice Clujene, Perspective in Inginerie, Cluj-Napoca, 20 Mai 2016

Sergiu Nedevschi, “Stereo Vision Based Perception for Autonomous Mobile Systems”, Workshop Delphi Automotive, Cluj-Napoca, 14 March, 2016

 

2015

A. Petrovai, R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, "A stereovision based approach for detecting and tracking lane and forward obstacles on mobile devices", 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), June 28 - July 1, 2015, COEX, Seoul, Korea, pp. 634-641.
A. Costea, A. Vatavu, S. Nedevschi, Obstacle Localization and Recognition for Autonomous Forklifts using Omnidirectional Stereovision, 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), June 28 - July 1, 2015, COEX, Seoul, Korea, pp. 531-536.

 

A. Costea, Andreea Valeria Vesa, Sergiu Nedevschi, "Fast Pedestrian Detection for Mobile Devices", ITSC 2015, Gran Canaria, Spain, pp. 2364 - 2369.

 

R. Danescu, A. Petrovai, R. Itu, S. Nedevschi, "Generic Obstacle Detection for Mobile Devices Using a Dynamic Intermediate Representation", AECIA 2015, proceedings in print.

 

C. Decean, S. Nedevschi, Fusion of Stereo and Structure from Motion for enhancing PatchMatch Stereo, IEEE ICCP 2015, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 187-193.

 

C. Golban, P. Cobarzan, S. Nedevschi, Direct formulas for stereo-based visual odometry error modeling, IEEE ICCP 2015, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 197-202.

 

F. Oniga, E. Sarkozi, S. Nedevschi, Fast Obstacle Detection Using U-Disparity Maps with Stereo Vision, IEEE ICCP 2015 Cluj-Napoca, pp. 203-207.

 

I. Giosan, S. Nedevschi, C. Pocol, Shape improvement of traffic pedestrian hypotheses by means of stereo-vision and superpixels, IEEE ICCP 2015, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 217-222.

 

D. Borza, R. Danescu, A. Darabant, Eyeglasses contour extraction using genetic algorithms, IEEE ICCP 2015, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 327-333.

 

M.I. Barbu, I. Giosan, T. Marița, Height restriction barriers detection from traffic scenarios using stereo-vision, IEEE ICCP 2015, Cluj-Napoca, pp. 209-214.

 

2014

A. Costea, S. Nedevschi, “Word Channel Based Multiscale Pedestrian Detection Without Image Resizing and Using Only One Classifier”, Proceedings of 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2393-2400, 2014.

A. Costea, S. Nedevschi, “Multi-Class Segmentation for Traffic Scenarios at Over 50 FPS”, Proceedings of 2014 IV Symposium, Dearborn, USA, 2014, pp. 1390-1395.

 

I. Giosan, S. Nedevschi, “Superpixel-based Obstacle Segmentation from Dense Stereo Urban Traffic Scenarios Using Intensity, Depth and Optical Flow Information”, accepted in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference 2014 (ITSC 2014), October 8-11, Qingdao, China.

 

A. Vatavu, R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, “Modeling and Tracking of Crowded Traffic Scenes by using Policy Trees, Occupancy Grid Blocks and Bayesian Filters”, accepted in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference 2014 (ITSC 2014), October 8-11, Qingdao, China.

 

A. Iloie, I. Giosan, S. Nedevschi, “UV disparity based obstacle detection and pedestrian classification in urban traffic scenarios”,   in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, September 4-6, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014, pp. 119-125.

 

S. Mandici, S. Nedevschi, “Aggregate Road Surface based Environment Representation using Digital Elevation Maps”, in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, September 4-6, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014, pp. 149-156.

 

C. Golban, S. Nedevschi, “Moving rigid objects segmentation in 3D dynamic traffic scenes using a stereovision system”, in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, September 4-6, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2014, pp. 165-170.

 

I. Giosan, S. Nedevschi, ”Multi-feature Real Time Pedestrian Detection from DenseStereo SORT-SGM Reconstructed Urban Traffic Scenarios”, in International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, 2014.

 

S. Nedevschi, T. Marita, R.Danescu, F. Oniga, A. Vatavu, M. Drulea, “Multi-scale, multi-modal perception of dynamic 3D environment based on the fusion of dense stereo, optical flow and virtual odometry information”, Romanian Research Convention, Inventions and Inovations Show - Inventika 2014, Bucharest, October 15-18, 2014.

 

S. Nedevschi, “Stereovision based perception for driving assistance and autonomous driving”, Symposium Technical University of Cluj-Napoca – Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, October 20, 2014

2013

A. Vatavu, S. Nedevschi, "Modeling Unstructured Environments with Dynamic Persistence Grids and Object Delimiters in Urban Traffic Scenarios", in Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2013 (IV 2013), Gold Coast, Australia, 23-26 June, 2013, pp. 505 – 510.

 

F. Oniga, A. Trif, S. Nedevschi, "Stereovision for Obstacle Detection on Smart Mobile Devices: First Results", in Proceedings of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, October, 2013, pp. 342-347.

 
R. Brehar, S. Nedevschi, "Pedestrian Detection in Traffic Scenes Using Multi-Attitude Classifiers", in Proceedings of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, October, 2013, pp. 1077-1082.

 
A. Vatavu, R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, "Tracking Multiple Objects in Traffic Scenarios Using Free-Form Obstacle Delimiters and Particle Filters", in Proceedings of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, October, 2013, pp. 1346-1351.

 

C. Golban, S. Nedevschi, "Speed estimation for scene objects using stereo visual odometry", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 5-7 September, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013, pp. 91-94.

A. Costea, S. Nedevschi, "Image Context Classification based on Visual Codebook Feature Boosting", in Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 5-7 September, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013, pp. 133-138.

R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, "A Flexible Solution for Modeling and Tracking Generic Dynamic 3D Environments", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 6-9 October,  The Hague, The Netherlands, 2013, pp. 1686-1692.

C. Golban, S. Nedevschi, "An experiment on relative rotation estimation from distant points with monocular vision", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 5-7 September, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2013, pp. 243-248.

 

2012

V. Popescu, R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi , "On-road position estimation by probabilistic integration of visual cues", Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2012 IEEE , vol., no., pp.583-589, 3-7 June 2012

A. Vatavu, R. Danescu, S. Nedevschi, "Real-time dynamic environment perception in driving scenarios using difference fronts", Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2012 IEEE , vol., no., pp.717-722, 3-7 June 2012

C. Golban, I. Szakacs, S. Nedevschi, "Stereo based visual odometry in difficult traffic scenes", Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2012 IEEE , vol., no., pp.736-741, 3-7 June 2012

A. Vatavu, S. Nedevschi, "Real-time modeling of dynamic environments in traffic scenarios using a stereo-vision system", Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2012 15th International IEEE Conference on , vol., no., pp.722-727, 16-19 Sept. 2012

A. Vatavu, S. Nedevschi, "Vision based Real-time Modeling of Dynamic Unstructured Environments in Driving Scenarios", in proceedings of ICINCO 2012, pp.141-149

C. Pantilie, S. Nedevschi, "Optimizing the Census Transform on CUDA enabled GPUs", Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.201-207, Aug. 30 2012-Sept. 1 2012

V. Popescu,  S. Nedevschi, "Cut-in maneuver recognition and behavior generation using Bayesian networks and fuzzy logic", Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.123-130, Aug. 30 2012-Sept. 1 2012

I. Giosan, S. Nedevschi , "A solution for probabilistic inference and tracking of obstacles classification in urban traffic scenarios", Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.221-227, Aug. 30 2012-Sept. 1 2012

A. C. Cosma, R. Brehar, S. Nedevschi, "Part-based pedestrian detection using HoG features and vertical symmetry", Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.229-236, Aug. 30 2012-Sept. 1 2012

D. Pojar, J. Pangyu, S. Nedevschi , "Robust visual odometry using stereo reconstruction error model", Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.149-154, Aug. 30 2012-Sept. 1 2012

PhD Theses

Calin Cenan – “Cooperarea agentilor inteligenti ca rationament probabilist”, 2015.

 

Ciprian Pocol – “Tehnici bazate pe stereo viziune pentru detectia obstacolelor in cadrul sistemelor de asistare a conducerii auto”, 2015.

 

Mihai Jolobeanu – “Reliable indoor autonomous navigation using low-cost depth sensors”, 2015.

 

I.Giosan – "Contributii la Detectia si Recunoasterea Obstacolelor in Scene de Trafic folosiind Stereoviziunea", 2014.

 

A. Vatavu – "Metode de Reprezentare si Urmarire in Scenele de Trafic", 2014

 

R. Brehar - "Adaptive Search Space Pruning in the Context of Multiple Attitude Pedestrian Detection Models", 2014

 

M. Negru - "Image Pre-Processing Solutions for Driving Assistance in Adverse Weather Conditions", 2014.

C. Pantilie, "Advanced Techniques for Real-Time Stereovision based Perception", PhD Thesis, TUCN, 01.09.2012.

C. Lemnaru, "Strategies for Dealing with Real World Classification Problems", PhD Thesis, TUCN, 01.09.2012.

V. Popescu, "Contributions to Localization and Situation Assessment Based on Stereovision for Driving Assistance Systems", TUCN, 19.11.2012

 

International Patent

M. Akio, S. Nedevschi, "Optical System”, patent no: WO2012038601-A1 from 29.03.2012