| 摘要 |
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus capable of distinguishing and determining an object type with high reliability, particularly a vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus capable of determining an object by distinguishing between a pedestrian and other objects among the objects with high reliability. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus detects an object existing around a vehicle ( 10 ) from images obtained by cameras 2 R and 2 L mounted on the vehicle ( 10 ) and includes an object extraction process unit (steps 1 to 9 ) which extracts an object from the image, a width calculation process unit (steps 101 to 104 ) which calculates widths of the object in a plurality of height positions spaced at vertical intervals of the object extracted by the object extraction process unit, and an object type determination process unit (step 105 ) which determines the type of the object based on the widths calculated by the width calculation process unit. |
