Vision sensors and infrared sensors are already playing a significant role in the automotive field. Particularly, the Night Vision (NV) function, introduced in Europe in 2005, provides a useful assistance to the car driver by helping assessing risks at night. One of the technologies used for Night Vision, Far Infrared (FIR) cameras, is particularly adapted to the detection of vulnerable road users and animals. After the successful introduction of its first generation of FIR-based NV system, Autoliv has developed a new functionality using the same sensing technology: the automatic detection of pedestrians for driver warning. This new product is now ready for applications on car manufacturers programs. The paper is giving an overview of the capabilities of this new function and a description of its main components. The NV-PDW system is capable of detecting pedestrians at a range of about 90 metres in front of the car under normal conditions. Pedestrians outside the at risk zone can be highlighted on the display, but no warning signal will be triggered. Different environments as well as different weather conditions have an important influence. A next step would be to increase the functionality to other kinds of detection, for instance detection of animals.


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    Title :

    Pedestrian detection and warning: a new generation of Night Vision system


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2008


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 4 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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