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Apparatus and method for object detection and tracking and roadway awareness using stereo cameras
The present invention provides a collision avoidance apparatus and method employing stereo vision applications for adaptive vehicular control. The stereo vision applications are comprised of a road detection function and a vehicle detection and tracking function. The road detection function makes use of three-dimensional point data, computed from stereo image data, to locate the road surface ahead of a host vehicle. Information gathered by the road detection function is used to guide the vehicle detection and tracking function, which provides lead motion data to a vehicular control system of the collision avoidance apparatus. Similar to the road detection function, stereo image data is used by the vehicle detection and tracking function to determine the depth of image scene features, thereby providing a robust means for identifying potential lead vehicles in a headway direction of the host vehicle.
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John Richard Theodore Armand Mayank Manish John Benjamin Gary Alan Aveek Kumar Aastha Jayakrishnan
Fields Camus Bansal Kumar Southall Greene Das Jain Eledath