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However, there are still some key issues in specific applications that need to be further improved, such as the feature processing of road images, the optimal choice of information extraction and detection methods, and the inevitable limitations of detection schemes. In the existing research work, most of the image segmentation algorithms applied to road detection are sensitive to noise data and are prone to generate redundant information or over-segmentation, which makes the computation of segmentation process more complicated. In addition, the algorithm needs to overcome objective factors such as different road conditions and natural environments to ensure certain execution efficiency and segmentation accuracy. In order to improve these issues, we integrate the idea of shallow machine-learning model that clusters first and then classifies in this paper, and a hierarchical multifeature road image segmentation integration framework is proposed. The proposed model has been tested and evaluated on two sets of road datasets based on real scenes and compared with common detection methods, and its effectiveness and accuracy have been verified. Moreover, it demonstrates that the method opens up a new way to enhance the learning and detection capabilities of the model. Most importantly, it has certain potential for application in various practical fields such as intelligent transportation or assisted driving.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13061213","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,23]],"date-time":"2021-03-23T23:59:41Z","timestamp":1616543981000},"page":"1213","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Novel Hierarchical Model in Ensemble Environment for Road Detection Application"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yang","family":"Gu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]},{"given":"Bingfeng","family":"Si","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]},{"given":"Bushi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"159","article-title":"An efficient graph reduction framework for interactive texture segmentation","volume":"78","author":"Subudhi","year":"2019","journal-title":"Signal Process Image Commun."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1664","DOI":"10.1109\/TITS.2017.2724138","article-title":"Traffic scene segmentation based on RGB-D image and deep learning","volume":"19","author":"Li","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE trans. 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