Vehicle undercarriage imaging system

A vehicle undercarriage image processing system comprising:

• a mobile device comprising:
• an integrated camera;
• a programmable circuit;
• at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium operatively connected to the programmable circuit and the integrated camera, the at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a vehicle inspection application comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one computer hardware processor, cause the programmable circuit to perform:
• obtaining, a series of images of an undercarriage of a vehicle captured, by the mobile device, as the vehicle passes over a mirror assembly positioned to reflect a view of the undercarriage to the mobile device;
• prior to generating a composite image of the undercarriage of the vehicle, obtaining a series of sub-images of the series of images of the undercarriage by analyzing one or more images of the series of images to identify a boundary of a region of pixels based on an extent to which pixel values remain unchanged along the boundary and extracting sub-images defined by the boundary from the one or more images of the series of images, each particular sub-image corresponding to a respective portion of the undercarriage reflected by the mirror assembly onto a field of view of the mobile device;
• and
• generating the composite image of the undercarriage of the vehicle by combining the sub-images.

At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one computer hardware processor, cause the at least one computer hardware processor to perform a method for generating a composite image of an undercarriage of a vehicle, the method comprising:

• obtaining a series of images of the undercarriage captured, by a mobile device having a camera integrated therein, as the vehicle passes over a mirror assembly positioned to reflect a view of the undercarriage to the mobile device;
• prior to generating the composite image of the undercarriage of the vehicle, obtaining a series of sub-images of the series of images of the undercarriage by analyzing one or more images of the series of images to identify a boundary of a region of pixels based on an extent to which pixel values remain unchanged along the boundary and extracting sub-images defined by the boundary from the one or more images of the series of images, each particular sub-image corresponding to a respective portion of the undercarriage reflected by the mirror assembly onto a field of view of the mobile device;
• and
• generating the composite image of the undercarriage of the vehicle by combining the series of sub-images.