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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2000
Christoph Stahl, Ottobrunn, DE;
Thomas Fechner, Berlin, DE;
Oliver Rockinger, Friedrichshafen, DE;
EADS Deutschland GmbH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
Image data of optically acquired input images () are processed for emphasizing at least two object classes. Each pixel is subjected to a rough classification () based on first criteria that determine whether or not a pixel is relevant for an object recognition. A reduced image () is formed from the relevant pixels and irrelevant pixels are omitted. The reduced image () is filtered () for forming at least two correlated filtered images () based on second criteria. Classified images (A,A,A) are formed from the filtered images by classifiers that work in accordance with predetermined rules. Weighting factors are allocated to each object class. The classified images are merged in accordance with an algorithm to make a combined global evaluation for each object class. The global evaluation decides, based on the merged images (A,B,C), for each pixel whether the respective pixel belongs to an object class and if so to which object class.