A 100 GOPS vision platform for intelligent vehicles

Author

Techmer, Axel ; Bruls, Nico ; Hachmann, Ulrich ; Harnisch, Jens ; Ramacher, Ulrich ; Raab, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. Syst. Technol., Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, Germany

fYear

2003

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

119

Abstract

New generations of automobiles will include driver assistance systems requiring powerful, low-cost processors to handle video/camera applications and to enable fast, convenient application development. Here, the Corporate Research Division of Infineon Technologies is working on a 100 GOPS vehicle vision platform, which consists of a fully programmable, general purpose vision processor, a convenient software environment based on "C" and the integration of advanced application software. The paper motivates Infineons\´ approach to vehicle vision systems, presents a brief description of the vision processor, and explains, as examples for application integration, a contour-based approach for an "overtake-checker" and a "door-opener" assistant.

Keywords

automobiles; computer vision; intelligent control; motion estimation; vehicle dynamics; 100 GOPS vision platform; Infineon technologies; automobiles; contour based approach; corporate research division; door opener assistant; driver assistance systems; intelligent vehicles; overtake checker; vehicle vision systems; vision processor; Application software; Automobiles; CMOS technology; Cameras; Face detection; Image edge detection; Intelligent vehicles; Machine vision; Vehicle detection; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7848-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.2003.1212894

Filename

1212894