Application Solutions (electronics and Vision) Ltd.

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Applications Solutions (electronic and Vision) Ltd

Carlos Silva

Andreas Panakos

Rui Guerreiro

Dev Yadav

The invention relates to a camera system () for a vehicle (). The camera system () is configured to acquire image data of a surrounding of the vehicle () and comprises a camera () and a control module (). The control module () is configured to determine, whether a calibration of an intrinsic parameter of the camera system () is required, by determining an error in a back projection, a forward projection and/or a reprojection of the image data and by determining whether the error exceeds a predefined threshold.

Online evaluation for camera intrinsic parameters

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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Carlos Silva