Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Sadao Takahashi

Toshiyuki Furuta

Yoshiaki Miyashita

Tomohiko Beppu

Hitoshi Hattori

Soichiro Yokota

Yoshiyuki Kimura

Shinichi Kuramoto

Kiyoshi Tanikawa

Shinichi Sumiyoshi

Tadashi Hayakawa

Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi

Nobuo Kikuchi

Tadashi Saitoh

Jun Watanabe

Yasuhiro Sato

Shin Aoki

Masaru Tanaka

Takaaki Tawada

Shigeaki Nimura

Tadashi Saito

Yuuta Hamada

Go Maruyama

Yasuhiro Ono

Satoshi Ohuchi

Toshifumi Yamaai

Minoru Morikawa

Jonathan J Hull

Yuji Takahashi

Jamey Graham

Koji Suzuki

Yasuhiro Takahashi

Berna Erol

Kazuhiro Ando

Youichi Asaba

Makoto Yamasaki

Taiga Asano

Nobuyuki Doi

Takeshi Tabuchi

Hirofumi Horikawa

Naoki Motohashi

Kentaro Matsumoto

Satoshi Shinguryo

Yuu Yamada

Naoki Kozuka

Satoshi Suga

Kouichi Yamazaki

Koichi Ejiri

Seiya Amano

Tomoko Ishigaki

Hitoshi Hirano

Sadao Matsumura

Toshimichi Hagiya

Takashi Ohkuma

Tomio Kubota

Hirohisa Ohtsuka

Reiju Shioda

Daisuke Okada

Kazuhisa Sudo

Jun Yoshida

Takeo Suda

Jorge Moraleda

Ikuo Maeda

Hidenobu Kishi

Masato Yokoyama

Chikara Imai

Eiichi Kawamura

Mitsuo Tanaka

Norimasa Sohmiya

Takahiro Furukawa

Nobuhiro Morita

Masatoshi Saitoh

Yaojie Lu

Tsuyoshi Deki

Hiroki Kubozono

Otoichi Nakata

Yukihiro Ohno

Kinzi Saito

Wataru Ohtani

Naomi Misago

Tabito Suzuki

Jie Ren

Hirohisa Otsuka

Mitsuru Ohminato

Minoru Suzuki

Toshikazu Kodama

Shintaroh Kida

Sukehiro Kimura

Yohichiroh Ohbayashi

Kouji Sato

Takerou Kurenuma

Itaru Ohtsuka

Satoshi Shinguryou

Satoshi Singuryo

Masaru Nakano

Toshio Sudo

According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes an object region detecting unit, a local region detecting unit, an object specifying unit. The object region detecting unit is configured to detect an object region based on one of distance information and luminance information. The local region detecting unit is configured to, when a divided area obtained by dividing the detected object region meets a predetermined condition, detect the divided area as a local region. The object specifying unit is configured to specify, as a specification target object, the object region in which the local region is continuously detected.

Information processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, apparatus control system, movable object, information processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to generate a first map formed of pixels that are associated with x coordinate information, distance information, and frequency values; search for a target pixel satisfying a predetermined condition among the pixels in the first map, the searching being performed from the pixels that are near towards the pixels that are far away as indicated by the distance information; and validate pixels surrounding the target pixel in the first map, together with the target pixel.

Image processing apparatus, device control system, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

An object detection device includes a map generator configured to generate, based on a distance image that includes distance information for each coordinate, a first map in which the coordinate in a horizontal direction of the distance image is associated with the distance information, and a second map in which the coordinate in the horizontal direction of the distance image is associated with the distance information, the second map having a lower resolution than the first map; and an object detector configured to detect an object based on the first map when a distance represented by the distance information is within a first range, and to detect an object based on the second map when a distance represented by the distance information is within a second range.

Object detection device, device control system, and medium

An image processing apparatus includes: a distance histogram information generating means configured to generate distance histogram information representing a frequency distribution of distance values in each of a plurality of row regions obtained by division of a captured image in an up-down direction; and a movement surface information processing means configured to: extract a group of distance values matching a feature represented by distance values of the movement surface for each of a plurality of segments obtained by segmentation of the distance histogram information according to the distance values; execute, for a segment where a group of distance values extracted does not satisfy a predetermined error condition, processing of generating information on the movement surface using the group of distance values; and execute, for a segment where a group of distance values extracted satisfies the predetermined error condition, predetermined error processing without using the group of distance values.

Image processing apparatus, moving body device control system, computer-readable medium, and image processing method

An information processing device includes a disparity information input unit configured to acquire disparity image data indicating a disparity image including a disparity; a V map generating unit configured to generate a V map indicating a frequency of the disparity for each of coordinates of the disparity image by voting the disparity at a position corresponding to the coordinate of each of pixels of the disparity image based on the disparity image data; a shape estimating unit configured to estimate a road surface shape based on the V map; a height table generating unit configured to generate a height table indicating a relationship between the disparity and a height of a road surface based on the estimated road surface shape; and a correcting unit configured to correct, based on rolling information on rolling of a stereo camera that acquires the disparity, information used to generate information indicating the road surface shape so as to cancel out an influence of the rolling.

Information processing device, imaging device, apparatus control system, information processing method, and computer program product

An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to obtain a range image having pixel values corresponding to a distance of an object in a plurality of captured images obtained by capturing the object on a road surface so as to extract pixel values from the range image, generate vertical direction distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of distance values in a vertical direction of the range image based on the extracted pixel values, calculate a height of the road surface in the range image before generation of the vertical direction distribution data is completed, and generate horizontal direction distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of distance values in a horizontal direction of the range image based on the extracted pixel values and the calculated height of the road surface.

Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and device control system

According to an embodiment, a processing device includes a generating unit, a detecting unit, and a determining unit. The generating unit is configured to generate two-dimensional distribution information of an object, the two-dimensional distribution information associating between at least a lateral direction distance and a depth direction distance of the object. The detecting unit is configured to detect a continuous area having continuity in a depth direction in the two-dimensional distribution information. The determining unit is configured to determine whether the continuous area represents a detection target.

Processing device, object recognition apparatus, device control system, processing method, and computer-readable recording medium

An image processing device includes: a generating unit that generates, based on a distance image, two-dimensional distribution information indicating a two-dimensional distribution of an object, in which a distance in a horizontal direction, a distance in a depth direction, and a frequency value corresponding to the distances are related; and a labeling unit that conducts a labeling process by conducting search on the two-dimensional distribution information multiple times, detecting a pixel having the frequency value that is more than a predetermined threshold during each search, and assigning a label that is different in each times of search, wherein the labeling unit conducts a first labeling process by selecting a pixel having the frequency value that is more than the threshold from pixels that abut a pixel being searched in a search direction and assigning the label when the label is not assigned to the pixel selected.

Image processing device, image processing method, computer-readable recording medium, object recognition device, device control system, and movable body

An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to generate a map formed of pixels that indicate information including left and right position information, distance information, and frequency values associated with the pixels; detect a pixel block formed of a plurality of the pixels having a common feature amount in the map; and generate a detection frame defining a search target region used for detecting a body from the distance information, based on the information indicated by the pixels forming the detected pixel block.

Image processing apparatus, device control system, imaging apparatus, and recording medium

An image processing device includes an input unit, a detecting unit, a calculating unit, and a determining unit. The input unit is configured to receive a recognized image representing an object. The detecting unit is configured to detect at least one surface of the object from a corresponding recognized image corresponding to the recognized image, the corresponding recognized image being on a frequency image indicating frequencies on a plane, the frequencies being of distance values corresponding to pixels of the recognized image. The calculating unit is configured to calculate an angle of the at least one surface with respect to a predetermined direction. The determining unit is configured to determine, based on the at least one surface detected by the detecting unit and the angle calculated by the calculating unit, whether or not the recognized image is to be rejected.

Device, method, system and computer-readable medium for determining collision target object rejection

According to one aspect of the present invention, an object recognition device for performing recognition processing on a distance image to recognize an object includes a determination unit, a changing unit, and a recognition processor. The determination unit is configured to determine a valid distance pixel forming the distance image and an invalid distance pixel not forming the distance image, based on a feature value of each pixel in a captured image. The changing unit is configured to change the invalid distance pixel near the valid distance pixel to a valid distance pixel. The recognition processor is configured to perform recognition processing on the distance image formed by the valid distance pixel determined by the determination unit and the valid distance pixel obtained by the changing unit to recognize the object.

Object recognition device, object recognition method, equipment control system, and distance image generation device

A processing apparatus includes a distance image acquirer, a moving-object detector, a background recognizer. The distance image acquirer acquires a distance image containing distance information of each pixel. The moving-object detector detects a moving object from the distance image. The background recognizer generates a background model in which a stationary object recognized as background of the moving object is modeled, from the distance image acquired by the distance image acquirer. The moving-object detector changes a method for detecting the moving object, based on a relative positional relation between the moving object and the background model.

Processing apparatus, processing system, processing program, and processing method

An object detection apparatus mountable to a moveable apparatus for detecting an object existing outside the moveable apparatus by capturing a plurality of images using a plurality of imaging devices mounted to the moveable apparatus and generating a disparity image from the captured images includes a map generator to generate a map indicating a frequency profile of disparity values correlating a horizontal direction distance of the object with respect to a movement direction of the moveable apparatus, and a distance to the object in the movement direction of the moveable apparatus based on the disparity image, an isolated area detection unit to detect an isolated area based on the frequency profile, an isolated area divider to divide the isolated area into two or more isolated areas based on the frequency profile in the isolated area, and an object detector to detect an object based on the divided isolated area.

Object detection apparatus, object detection method, object detection program and device control system for moveable apparatus

A MMR system for publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher. The mobile devices send retrieval requests including image queries and other contextual information. The MMR gateway processes the retrieval request from the mobile devices and then generates an image query that is passed on to the MMR matching unit. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result including a document, the page and the location on the page. The MMR matching unit includes an image registration unit that receives new content from the MMR publisher and updates the index table of the MMR matching unit. A method for automatically registering images and other data with the MMR matching unit, a method for dynamic load balancing and a method for image-feature-based queue ordering are also included.

Architecture for mixed media reality retrieval of locations and registration of images

An imaging device includes a lens array including multiple lenses facing a subject; an image sensor obtaining a compound-eye image including single-eye images of the subject formed by the lenses; and a computing unit processing the compound-eye image obtained by the image sensor. The lenses have different radii of curvature and substantially the same back focal length, and the computing unit extracts an in-focus image from the compound-eye image.

Compound lens imaging device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Sadao Takahashi