Automatic Vehicle Window Cleaning Method and Apparatus

An automatic vehicle window cleaning apparatus, comprising a processor, a memory, and a communications interface, wherein the communications interface is configured to communicate with another device or communications network, the memory is configured to store one or more programs, the one or more programs comprise computer-executable instructions, and when the apparatus runs, the processor executes the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, so that the apparatus performs the automatic vehicle window cleaning method comprising:

• obtaining a vehicle window image;
• determining a dark channel image corresponding to a single frame of vehicle window image;
• determining, based on a quantity of pixels whose gray values exceed a preset gray threshold in the dark channel image and/or definition of the dark channel image, that a first-type foreign object exists on a vehicle window;
• and/or determining, based on RGB values of pixels in i consecutive frames of vehicle window images, that a second-type foreign object exists on the vehicle window;
• and
• controlling a cleaning tool to remove a foreign object, wherein the foreign object comprises the first-type foreign object and/or the second-type foreign object.