The present invention relates to a device for providing improved obstacle identification. Acquisition (210) of first vehicle image data with a first camera (20) is included. The first camera delivers (220) the first vehicle image data to a processing unit (40). Furthermore, acquisition (230) of second vehicle image data with a second camera (30) is included. An image overlap region exists, which has at least a portion of the first vehicle image data and at least a portion of the second vehicle image data. The first vehicle image data and the second vehicle image data extend over a ground plane and the image overlap region extends over an overlap region of the ground plane. The second camera delivers (240) the second vehicle image data to the processing unit. The processing unit extracts (250) first image features from the first vehicle image data and the processing unit extracts (260) second image features from the second vehicle image data. The processing unit projects (270) the first image features onto the ground plane and the processing unit projects (280) the second image features onto the ground plane. The processing unit produces (290) at least one image of the surroundings, having either (a) at least a portion of the first vehicle image data associated with the overlap region, or (b) at least a portion of the second vehicle image data associated with the overlap region. The production is based in part on the determination of first image features whose projections lie in the overlap region of the ground plane, and on second image features whose projections lie in the overlap region of the ground plane.
Device for Providing Improved Obstacle Identification
2020-03-05
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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