When it comes to driver awareness, we all know how hard it can be to
keep an eye on every pedestrian and moving vehicle in our vicinity,
particularly when driving in a busy city area. Couple this with the
upcoming Kids and Transportation Safety Act in the US that dictates that
all cars built from May 2018 onwards must be fitted with rear view cameras as
standard, and it becomes doubly important that on-board vehicle cameras
are used to their best advantage. To help in this regard, Fujitsu
Semiconductor Limited is set to introduce software that assists in
detecting and identifying cars, people, and other moving objects and
alerts the driver of their position and direction of travel.
Using what Fujitsu calls its "Approaching Object Detection Library" in
conjunction with a proprietary System-on-Chip (SoC) graphics device, the
system uses the images captured by additional vehicle cameras to
automatically detect nearby moving objects and compare them to stored
representations to identify and categorize them.
This is achieved by using elements built into the Approaching Object
Detection Library, where vehicle camera images are analyzed in
conjunction with a detection algorithm that identifies approaching
objects. These are then run with detection-error reduction processing to
eliminate false positives. The resulting image is overlaid on real-time
images collected through the vehicle's on-board cameras, and displayed
on a dashboard monitor, providing vital information for the driver about
the objects moving around them.
Though there are other systems available
that aim to improve a driver's all-round vision, they still require
constant monitoring and, given the increasing demands on drivers with
all of the gadgets that vie for attention within the car, the AOD system
may well do even more good simply by being unobtrusive.
The AOD library will be available in an evaluation version from this
month, and will be shipped with an evaluation board that includes
Fujitsu's graphics SoC. Release for commercial sale is slated for
September this year.
Fujitsu will also be demonstrating this and other solutions at the 2014 Automotive Engineering Exposition, May 21–23 in Yokohama, Japan.
Source: Fujitsu
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