Apparatus for predicting wheel performance in vehicle and method therefor

A method for predicting performance of a wheel in a vehicle, the method comprising:

• generating, by a learning device, a latent space for a plurality of 2D wheel images based on a convolutional autoencoder (CAE);
• extracting, by the learning device, a predetermined number of 2D wheel images from the latent space;
• learning, by the learning device, a dataset having the extracted 2D wheel images and performance values corresponding to the extracted 2D wheel images;
• and
• predicting, by a controller, performance for a 2D wheel image based on a performance prediction model as learned result of obtained by the learning device,
• wherein the generating of the latent space for the plurality of 2D wheel images includes generating the plurality of 2D wheel images each of which having a shape different from that of a reference 2D wheel image using generative design.