VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING SYSTEM, VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING PROGRAM AND VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING METHOD

摘要

A vehicle periphery monitoring system is provided with an image processing target area setting means for setting an image processing target area (61) that may include an image portion of an monitoring object in a captured image (Im2) on the basis of a distance between an object detected by a radar and a vehicle; feature region extracting means for extracting a feature region with a feature amount of a head of a pedestrian in a search area (64) based on the image processing target area (61); image processing target area correcting means for correcting a range of the image processing target area from (61) to (62) on the basis of the position of a feature region (60a) when the feature region (60a) is extracted, and an object type discriminating means for discriminating a type of real-space monitoring object corresponding to the image portion included in the corrected image processing target area (62). Thus, an image area for extracting the image portion of the monitoring object can be set appropriately depending on the type of image object.