Method and apparatus for controlling vehicle using motion recognition with face recognition

摘要

Provided is a vehicle control apparatus including an image obtaining part that obtains an image of outside of a vehicle; a face recognizing part that finds and tracks a face of a person from an image obtained by the image obtaining part based on feature elements human faces and extracts feature information regarding a face of a person; a face authenticating part that compares the feature information extracted by the face recognizing part to feature information regarding faces of persons registered in advance and, if a difference therebetween is less than or equal to a critical value, authenticates that the recognized face as a registered face; the motion recognizing part that, when authentication is completed by the face authenticating part, recognizes a motion; and a control part that recognizes a motion of a face-recognized and face-authenticated person and performs a set function.

主权项

1. A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
an image obtaining part configured to obtain an image of an area outside a vehicle; a face recognizing part configured to:
find and track a face of a person outside the vehicle, the face of the person outside the vehicle being in the image obtained by the image obtaining part, the face recognizing part being configured to find the face of the person outside the vehicle and track the face of the person outside the vehicle based on feature elements of human faces; andextract feature information regarding the face of the person outside the vehicle; a face authenticating part configured to:
compare the feature information extracted by the face recognizing part to feature information regarding faces of one or more persons registered in advance, the feature information regarding the faces of the one or more persons registered in advance being stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium; andauthenticate the face of the person outside the vehicle as being a registered face if a first difference between the feature information extracted by the face recognizing part and the feature information regarding the faces of the one or more persons registered in advance is less than or equal to a first critical value; a motion recognizing part configured to recognize a motion of the person outside the vehicle if the face of the person outside the vehicle is authenticated as being a registered face; and a control part configured to:
compare the motion recognized by the motion recognizing part to a motion registered in advance, the motion registered in advance being stored in the memory;cause a specific function of the vehicle to be performed if a second difference between the motion recognized by the motion recognizing part and the motion stored in advance is greater than a second critical value, the specific function of the vehicle comprising one or more of opening a vehicle door, closing the vehicle door, opening a vehicle trunk, or closing the vehicle trunk; andcause the motion recognizing part to request the person outside the vehicle having the registered face to show the motion again if the second difference is less than or equal to the second critical value.