Conti Temic Microelectronic Gmbh

Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Application Solutions (electronics and Vision) Ltd.

Applications Solutions (electronic and Vision) Ltd

Andreas Panakos

Charlotte Gloger

Markus Friebe

Rui Guerreiro

Martin Buerker

Carlos Silva

Dev Yadav

Frank Kittmann

Moritz Meyers

Ekaterina Grünwedel

Gustavo Machado

Martin BÜRKER

The present disclosure relates to a method for a camera system, in particular a surround-view camera system, for a vehicle, which has a control device, multiple surround-view cameras, and a display apparatus. The method includes: generating an original image (step I), generating a simulated image of the original image, the simulated image simulating a coloration of the original image resulting from an ascertainable visual impairment, generating a differential image between the original image and the simulated image, determining edges in the differential image, generating a superimposed image by superimposing the original image and the edges of the differential image, and displaying the superimposed image using the display apparatus.

Method for a camera system, and camera system

The present disclosure provides a method for providing a visualization of a vehicle, the method having the steps: receiving, for each vehicle camera of a plurality of vehicle cameras of the vehicle, current values of camera extrinsic parameters of said vehicle camera; receiving vehicle suspension data relating to a suspension of wheels of the vehicle; and visualizing the vehicle using a predefined model of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle is visualized on a ground surface; wherein the ground surface is modelled to contact the wheels of the vehicle, based on the current values of the camera extrinsic parameters of the vehicle cameras and based on the suspension data.

Method and device for providing a visualization of a vehicle, and vehicle

The invention relates to a driver assistance system () for a vehicle () for detecting light conditions in the vehicle (), having a sensor arrangement () designed to capture sensor data, and having a control device () designed to ascertain if the sight of a driver of the vehicle () is negatively influenced by a source of stray light external to the vehicle.

Method for detecting light conditions in a vehicle

A method for processing images is described, wherein a scenery is recorded as at least one raw image by at least one optical capture means mounted on a vehicle, and wherein image data of the scenery are mapped incompletely and/or erroneously in the subsequently rendered render image in at least one area. In order to provide a user of one or more cameras on a motor vehicle, that have visibility restrictions with a more agreeable visual experience, the method includes identifying the area(s) of incomplete and/or erroneous mapping in the render image on the basis of existing visibility restrictions, generating masks that enclose the area(s) of incomplete and/or erroneous mapping as masked areas, reconstructing image data in unmasked areas of the render image by means of digital inpainting and synthesizing together with the masked areas to produce a correction image, and displaying the completed and/or debugged correction image.

Modular inpainting method

A method includes the steps: a) capturing image of an environment surrounding a vehicle by a camera; b) determining an area of increased brightness in the image based on pixels having a brightness exceeding a predefined threshold; c) estimating position coordinates of a light source in the environment from the area of increased brightness; d) detecting a shadow of the vehicle in the image; and e) determining a type of the light source as a spot light source or a direction light source from the shadow, environment.

Estimation of position coordinates of light sources in images of the surrounding environment

A surround view system for a vehicle includes a detection unit and an evaluation unit. The detection unit is designed to detect data relating to the surroundings. The evaluation unit is designed to identify an object in the detected surroundings data and to determine the 3D shape of this object. The evaluation unit is additionally designed to add the determined 3D shape to a projection surface of the surround view system to produce a modified projection surface. The evaluation unit is designed to project the surroundings data onto the modified projection surface.

Surround view system having an adapted projection surface

A method and device for determining an ego-motion of a vehicle are disclosed. Respective sequences of consecutive images are obtained from a front view camera, a left side view camera, a right side view camera and a rear view camera and merged. A virtual projection of the images to a ground plane is provided using an affine projection. An optical flow is determined from the sequence of projected images, an ego-motion of the vehicle is determined from the optical flow and the ego-motion is used to predict a kinematic state of the car.

Method and device for the estimation of car ego-motion from surround view images

The application provides a method of calibrating a camera of a vehicle. The vehicle has a reference frame. The method comprises taking an image of a scene by the camera. The ground plane of the vehicle is then determined according to features of the image. An origin point of the vehicle reference frame is later defined as being located on the determined ground plane. A translation of a reference frame of the camera is afterward determined for aligning the camera reference frame with the vehicle reference frame.

Camera extrinsic parameters estimation from image lines

A method and a device for image stabilization of an image sequence of one or more cameras of a vehicle are disclosed. Images of the surroundings of the vehicle are recorded and image points of the recorded images are projected to a unit sphere, where the projection includes applying a lens distortion correction. For each of the one or more cameras, a vanishing point is calculated using the projected image points on the unit sphere and a motion of the vanishing point on the unit sphere is tracked. The motion of the vanishing point is used to calculate a corrected projection to a ground plane.

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