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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2005
Ying Zhu, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Jct., NJ (US);
Martin Pellkofer, Pentling, DE;
Thorsten Köhler, Deuerling, DE;
Ying Zhu, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Jct., NJ (US);
Martin Pellkofer, Pentling, DE;
Thorsten Köhler, Deuerling, DE;
Siemens Corporation, Iselin, NJ (US);
Siemens VDO Automotive AG, Regensburg, DE;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a system and method for on-road vehicle detection. A video sequence is received that is comprised of a plurality of image frames. A potential vehicle appearance is identified in an image frame. Known vehicle appearance information and scene geometry information are used to formulate initial hypotheses about vehicle appearance. The potential vehicle appearance is tracked over multiple successive image frames. Potential motion trajectories for the potential vehicle appearance are identified over the multiple image frames. Knowledge fusion of appearance, scene geometry and motion information models are applied to each image frame containing the trajectories. A confidence score is calculated for each trajectory. A trajectory with a high confidence score is determined to represent a vehicle appearance.