Although our ultimate goal would be to implement this on
embedded hardware, given the utilization of a GPU we would
definitely obtain an accelerated performance. Another
advantage of this algorithm is its ability to construct a
comprehensive data model of the scene ahead comprised of
different types of targets and landmarks commonly
encountered on an urban road scenario. This is achieved usingAdaboost machine learning technique [4] which accounts for a
varied set of targets, landmarks even when they appear
different from different viewing angles. The necessity of
detecting these landmarks is to construct a set of distinct
regions in the form of a map. This accounts for the Visual
SLAM task while also localizing the current position of the
vehicle within the map [5]. The problem of SLAM is being
dealt with by a majority of autonomous vehicle researchers but
evaluating this algorithm was necessary to help us understand
the requirement of a general purpose object detection method
for autonomous vehicle platforms.