Processing device

Abstract

Erroneous detection due to erroneous parallax measurement is suppressed to accurately detect a step present on a road. An in-vehicle environment recognition device 1 includes a processing device that processes a pair of images acquired by a stereo camera unit 100 mounted on a vehicle. The processing device includes a stereo matching unit 200 that measures a parallax of the pair of images and generates a parallax image, a step candidate extraction unit 300 that extracts a step candidate of a road on which the vehicle travels from the parallax image generated by the stereo matching unit 200, a line segment candidate extraction unit 400 that extracts a line segment candidate from the images acquired by the stereo camera unit 100, an analysis unit 500 that performs collation between the step candidate extracted by the step candidate extraction unit 300 and the line segment candidate extracted by the line segment candidate extraction unit 400 and analyzes validity of the step candidate based on the collation result and an inclination of the line segment candidate, and a three-dimensional object detection unit 600 that detects a step present on the road based on the analysis result of the analysis unit 500.

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