On
occasion I slide from industrial machine vision into the world of
automotive vision systems – the kind of things that will give us
self-driving cars in the near future – and today I thought you
might like to take a look at one.
Japanese
auto parts maker Denso has just announced a new vision
sensor for active safety.
The link takes you to their press release, and if you scroll down to
the bottom you’ll find a photo of an in-car system – the kind of
thing that goes in to high-end BMW’s and Mercedes.
Details
of the system are sketchy. We’re told it has a color camera to
better handle various colors of lane markings and to distinguish
between taillights and headlights. We’re also told that’ it’s
smaller and has a higher upper temperature limit.
And
on the subject of color, here’s something I’ve wondered about for
a while: how does it see lane markings in the dark? In snow? In fog?
I’m
just asking.
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1 comment:
How does human see markings? No way..
I think camera can actually see more, because visible range can be extended to UV- and/or NIR-area. That however doesn't help when everything is blocked by snow.
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