摘要 |
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). |