DEVICE FOR DETECTING A VEHICLE AND CALCULATING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE VEHICLES USING STEREO VISION, CAPABLE OF DETECTING THE VEHICLE AND CALCULATING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE VEHICLES REGARDLESS OF THE SIZE OF THE VEHICLE OR THE NUMBER OF THE VEHICLES EXISTING IN THE IMAGE

摘要

PURPOSE: A device for detecting a vehicle and calculating the distance between the vehicles using stereo vision are provided to recognize the vehicle with a simple method about a vehicle nominating area detected from the image by determining availability in Canny Edge image extracted by vehicle detection technology based on a computer.;CONSTITUTION: A device for detecting a vehicle and calculating the distance between the vehicles using stereo vision comprises a stereo vision unit(100), a pre-processor(110), and a unit(120) for detecting the vehicle and calculating the distance between the vehicles. The stereo vision unit detects the left image and the distance image corrected from an image signal. The image signal is filmed by right and left cameras installed in the vehicle. The pre-processor extracts edge information based on an output signal of the stereo vision unit. The unit for detecting the vehicle and calculating the distance between the vehicles detects a corner of the vehicle based on the edge information. The unit detects the vehicle and calculates the distance between the vehicles from image information through expanding a vehicle area, grouping, and testing availability.;COPYRIGHT KIPO 2013;[Reference numerals] (101) Left camera; (102) Right camera; (103) Stereo vision module; (104) Rectified left image; (105) Depth image; (111) Multi-scale image module; (112) Histogram smoothing module; (113) Canny edge detecting module; (121) Vehicle corner detecting module; (122) Vehicle area expanding module; (123) Vehicle area grouping module; (124) Vehicle area effectiveness checking module; (125) Inter-vehicle distance calculating module