Abstract:
A travelable area recognition system (1) and a travelable area recognition method, installed in a moving body (100) for traveling on a travelable area, operatively connected to multiple imaging devices (110A, 110B) that capture multiple images of the area surrounding the moving body (100), to recognize a travelable image area in the captured image, each of which includes indexed image generator (122A, 122B) to generate multiple indexed images from the multiple captured images acquired by the imaging devices (110A, 110B) installed in the moving body (100), the indexed images having pixels corresponding to indexes calculated based on multiple polarization components having different polarization directions respectively; a parallax calculator (121) to calculate parallaxes for each of the pixels, based on the indexed images generated by the indexed image generators (122A, 122B) from the multiple captured images; and a travelable area recognition processor (142) to recognize the travelable image area based on the parallaxes calculated by the parallax calculator (121).
Abstract:
An object identification device includes an image capturing device to capture images polarized in different directions for an object; a noise removal unit to remove noise in the polarized images using a noise removing parameter; an index value computing unit to compute an object identification index value for identification-processing areas in the polarized images using noise removed polarized images data; an object identification processing unit that conducts an object identification by determining identification processing areas corresponding to an identification target object based on the object identification index value; an environment information obtaining unit to obtain environment information of the object; an environmental condition determination unit to determine an environmental condition of the object based on the environment information; and a parameter storage unit to store noise removing parameters prepared for mutually exclusive environmental conditions. The noise removal unit reads a noise removing parameter from the parameter storage unit to conduct a noise removing.
Abstract:
An object identification device includes an image capturing device to capture images polarized in different directions for an object; a noise removal unit to remove noise in the polarized images using a noise removing parameter; an index value computing unit to compute an object identification index value for identification-processing areas in the polarized images using noise removed polarized images data; an object identification processing unit that conducts an object identification by determining identification processing areas corresponding to an identification target object based on the object identification index value; an environment information obtaining unit to obtain environment information of the object; an environmental condition determination unit to determine an environmental condition of the object based on the environment information; and a parameter storage unit to store noise removing parameters prepared for mutually exclusive environmental conditions. The noise removal unit reads a noise removing parameter from the parameter storage unit to conduct a noise removing.
Abstract:
A travelable area recognition system (1) and a travelable area recognition method, installed in a moving body (100) for traveling on a travelable area, operatively connected to multiple imaging devices (110A, 110B) that capture multiple images of the area surrounding the moving body (100), to recognize a travelable image area in the captured image, each of which includes indexed image generator (122A, 122B) to generate multiple indexed images from the multiple captured images acquired by the imaging devices (110A, 110B) installed in the moving body (100), the indexed images having pixels corresponding to indexes calculated based on multiple polarization components having different polarization directions respectively; a parallax calculator (121) to calculate parallaxes for each of the pixels, based on the indexed images generated by the indexed image generators (122A, 122B) from the multiple captured images; and a travelable area recognition processor (142) to recognize the travelable image area based on the parallaxes calculated by the parallax calculator (121).