Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Kia Corporation

Jong Hoon Kwak

JunHyung Kim

Junsik An

Jihee Han

Heechul Choi

Jonghyuk Lim

An apparatus for acquiring surrounding information of a vehicle includes: a camera configured to acquire an entire image of at least one surrounding vehicle; and a controller configured to derive at least one of coordinates of a wheel image area or coordinates of a front-rear image area included in an entire image area, and determine distance information from the vehicle to the at least one surrounding vehicle based on a relative positional relationship between the entire image area and the at least one of the wheel image area coordinates or the front-rear image area coordinates.

Apparatus for acquiring surrounding information of vehicle and method for controlling thereof

A vehicle may include a camera configured to obtain an image of at least one surrounding vehicle; and a controller configured to determine object recognition data including at least one of full area data, wheel area data, and bumper area data of the surrounding vehicle from the image of the at least one surrounding vehicle, based on the object recognition data, to set a reference point in the at least one of the full area data, the wheel area data, and the bumper area data of the surrounding vehicle from the image of the surrounding vehicle, and to predict a driving speed of the surrounding vehicle based on a change in a position of the reference point.

Vehicle for estimation a state of the other vehicle using reference point of the other vehicle, and method of controlling the vehicle

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Gunpo-si, South Korea

Jong Hoon Kwak