Hilario Gómez, CristinaCollado Hernáiz, Juan ManuelArmingol Moreno, José MaríaEscalera Hueso, Arturo de la2010-03-032010-03-032005-05Pattern recognition and image analysis : Second Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2005, Estoril, Portugal, June 7-9, 2005, Proceedings, Part I, 2005, p. 579-586978-3-540-26153-70302-9743 (Print)1611-3349 (Online)https://hdl.handle.net/10016/7109Proceeding of: Second Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2005, Estoril, Portugal, June 7-9, 2005Computer Vision can provide a great deal of assistance to Intelligent Vehicles. In this paper an Advanced Driver Assistance Systems for Vehicle Detection is presented. A geometric model of the vehicle is defined where its energy function includes information of the shape and symmetry of the vehicle and the shadow it produces. A genetic algorithm finds the optimum parameter values. As the algorithm receives information from a road detection module some geometric restrictions can be applied. A multi-resolution approach is used to speed up the algorithm and work in realtime. Examples of real images are shown to validate the algorithm.application/pdfeng© Springer-Verlagconference outputRobótica e Informática Industrial10.1007/11492429_70open access