METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOILING DETECTION, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention provided a soiling detection method for detecting soiling of an imaging system if the imaging system is standing still. It is for this purpose, that reference image data are generated while the imaging system is moving and based on this reference image data a further analysis of a captured image data can be performed while the imaging system is standing still. By comparing the reference data with image data generated while the imaging system is standing still, a soiling detection measure can be computed comprising a degree of soiling and a confidence value for this degree. In this way, a fast and reliable soiling detection of a still standing imaging system can be performed.