Lane type detection

[pranavboyapati]

This should be able to detect all the lanes that are available on the road and should also determine lane type (e.g. left turn only, right turn only, straight, etc.)

[pranavboyapati]

11/11/2024 Update:

• Status: Just picked up this task today
• Next Steps: Plan out completion and conduct research on useful resources
• Projected Completion: Monday, November 18
• Update: I will plan out the completion of this task and research useful resources for completing this task by next Monday.

[pranavboyapati]

11/18/2024 Update:

• Status: Finished planning and research
• Next Steps: Build a dataset of images to use for making the classification model
• Projected Completion: Monday, November 25
• Update: I finished planning out how to complete this task and also conducted research to find helpful resources for completing this task. The next step is to make a custom dataset of images to use for training the model. I need to create a custom dataset because there isn't a pre-existing dataset that works for this use case. This step will be finished in one week.

[pranavboyapati]

12/02/2024 Update:

• Status: Created dataset of images for training the model
• Next Steps: Annotate all of the images
• Projected Completion: Monday, December 9
• Update: I created a dataset of images that contain all of the possible lane markings that could be encountered while driving. The next step is to annotate these images so that I can use them for training the classification model.

[pranavboyapati]

01/27/2025 Update:

• Status: Annotated all images
• Next Steps: Train the YOLO model to make detections
• Projected Completion: 1-2 weeks
• Update: The dataset of lane type markings has been annotated. The next step is to train the YOLO model to detect lane type markings. I am expecting this to take 1-2 weeks, but not sure about it since I've never done this before.

[pranavboyapati]

02/03/2025 Update:

• Status: Finished training YOLO model
• Next Steps: Make the ROS node
• Projected Completion: Monday, February 10
• Update: I trained a YOLO 11 model for detecting lane types and tested it. The next step is to integrate this into a ROS node, which will be done by next week.