Vehicle detection system and method

A method for detecting one or more vehicles by a vehicle detection system comprising:

• receiving a high exposure image and a low exposure image by a processor;
• identifying a condition of one or more of the high exposure image or the low exposure image in a dynamically varying region of interest (ROI) by a scene recognition module;
• determining at least one of a curve, a slope or a vanishing point of a road in the dynamically varying ROI;
• processing the one or more of the high exposure image or the low exposure image to detect one or more vehicles in the dynamically varying region of interest (ROI);
• identifying one or more blobs including one or more high exposure blobs in the high exposure image and one or more low exposure blobs in the low exposure image;
• determining if one or more high exposure blobs overlap in at least one of a row or a column of the low exposure image with one or more low exposure blobs and compile the overlapping one or more low exposure blobs to a blob list;
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• identifying one or more high exposure blobs that do not overlap in the at least one of a row or a column of the low exposure image, determining if the non-overlapping one or more high exposure blobs indicates a tail light, and compiling the non-overlapping one or more high exposure blobs indicating a tail light to the blob list.

A method for detecting one or more vehicles by a vehicle detection system comprising:

• receiving a high exposure image and a low exposure image by a processor;
• identifying a condition of one or more of the high exposure image or the low exposure image in a dynamically varying region of interest (ROI);
• identifying one or more blobs including one or more high exposure blobs in the high exposure image and one or more low exposure blobs in the low exposure image;
• determining if one or more high exposure blobs overlap in at least one of a row or a column with one or more low exposure blobs and compiling the overlapping one or more low exposure blobs to a blob list;
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• identifying one or more high exposure blobs that do not overlap in the at least one of a row or a column with the low exposure image, determining if the non-overlapping one or more high exposure blobs indicates a tail light, and compiling the non-overlapping one or more high exposure blobs indicating a tail light to the blob list;
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• processing the one or more of the high exposure image or the low exposure image to detect one or more vehicles in the dynamically varying region of interest (ROI).