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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Application Solutions (Electronics and Vision) Ltd., Lewes, GB;
Alexander Sibiryakov, Lewes, GB;
Abstract
An image recognition system and method for a vehicle, including at least two camera units, each being configured to record an image of a road in the vicinity of the vehicle and to provide image data representing the respective image of the road, a first image processor configured to combine the image data provided by the at least two camera units into a first top-view image. The first top-view image is aligned to a road image plane, a first feature extractor configured to extract lines from the first top-view image, a second feature extractor configured to extract an optical flow from the first top-view image and a second top-view image, generated before the first top-view image by the first image processor, and a curb detector configured to detect curbs in the road based on the extracted lines and the extracted optical flow and provide curb data representing the detected curbs.