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Outdoor Road-to-Vehicle Visible Light Communication Using On-Vehicle High-Speed Camera

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We propose a road-to-vehicle Visible Light Communication (VLC) system for ITS. Here, the communication between road and a vehicle is approached using an LED array as a transmitter and an on-vehicle high-speed camera as a receiver. Modulation is conducted at the transmitter by blinking LEDs in high frequency and demodulation is conducted at the receiver by capturing the blinking patterns of the transmitter, by processing the high-speed camera images captured in high frame rate. This paper proposes an effective image processing method for capturing those blinking patterns. Out door communication experiments of the proposed VLC system are also present.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, 6-3-1 Niijuku, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, 125-8585, Japan

    Chinthaka Premachandra

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1, Kamitomioka, Nagaoka-shi, Niigata, 940-2188, Japan

    Tomohiro Yendo

  3. Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

    Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani & Toshiaki Fujii

  4. Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, C3-1, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8063, Japan

    Takaya Yamazato

  5. EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan

    Hiraku Okada

  6. Department of Research, Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, 2-10-19 Sakae, Nakaku, Nagoya, 460-0008, Japan

    Masayuki Tanimoto

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Premachandra, C., Yendo, T., Tehrani, M.P. et al. Outdoor Road-to-Vehicle Visible Light Communication Using On-Vehicle High-Speed Camera. Int. J. ITS Res. 13, 28–36 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13177-014-0079-y

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