Non Line-of-Sight Perception Vehicular Camera Communication

This dataset was used in our work See-through a Vehicle: Augmenting Road Safety Information using Visual Perception and Camera Communication in Vehicles published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). In this work, we present the design, implementation and evaluation of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) perception to achieve a virtual {\em see-through} functionality for road vehicles. In this system, a safety event, such as pedestrian crossing or traffic list status or vehicle merge, that are occluded to a driver due to another vehicle on the driving lane, are perceived and communicated by the occluding vehicle. Each vehicle is equipped with a camera, placed on the dashboard, that perceives the scene in a drivers view. This scene is analyzed and mapped into specific warning codes that are specific to a safety event, and communicated as short packets using visible light communication. The camera in the following vehicle captures this information and generates a recommendation for safety action to the driver by comparing the warning from the packet and from its own scene perception.