The demand for improved driver assistance functionality is increasing, thus, the requirements for automatic environmental perception has also increased. Previous efforts have concentrated on radar sensors, however advanced ACC or STA applications would benefit from fusion with vision in the future. In this article the 4D-approach to scene interpretation is introduced, and a general system architecture derived from it including a basic set of image processing operations is proposed. An example of a vision-based lane and vehicle tracking system is presented and finally demonstrated within an STA application.
Print ISSN: 1611-2776
Volume: 49, 01/2007
Pages: 33 - 39