VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITOR DEVICE

摘要

Provided is a vehicle periphery monitor device for accurately distinguishing between and detecting two side-by-side pedestrians and a vehicle that is lighting lights. With regard to a pedestrian candidate having at least two head candidates, a reference image creation unit creates the peripheral image of one of the head candidates as a reference image and creates an inverted image in which the right and left sides of the reference image are inverted. An object determination unit sets the peripheral image of the other heat candidate as a comparative image, and determines whether the head candidates are the pedestrians or the vehicle on the basis of the consistency of the reference image and the inverted image relative to the comparative image.

主权项

1. A vehicle periphery monitoring apparatus for monitoring pedestrians in periphery of a vehicle based on an image captured by an infrared camera that is mounted on the vehicle, comprising:
a head candidate extractor for extracting at least two head candidates or, which are spaced substantially horizontally, from the image; a reference image generator for generating a peripheral image including one of the extracted at least two head candidates as a reference image; and a target object determiner, which uses a peripheral image including another head candidate as a comparison image, for judging whether the at least two head candidates represent pedestrians or a vehicle based on a degree of symmetry between the comparison image and the reference image.