A vehicle exterior environment detection apparatus includes a distance image generator, a vehicle detector, a search processor, a vehicle width calculator, and a predictor. The distance image generator generates a plurality of distance images including a first distance image, a second distance image, and a third distance image, on a basis of a plurality of stereo images including a first stereo image, a second stereo image, and a third stereo image each including a left image and a right image. The predictor predicts a position of a target vehicle in the left image and the right image included in the third stereo image, on a basis of a first vehicle image width calculated on a basis of the first distance image and a second vehicle image width calculated on a basis of a selected image of the second stereo image.

A method and apparatus for measuring a dynamic crosstalk are provided. The method may include: controlling a driver configured to cause a camera to have a dynamic movement; at either one or both of a left eye position and a right eye position of a user, capturing a stereo pattern image output through a three-dimensional (3D) display, by the camera while the camera is in the dynamic movement; and measuring the dynamic crosstalk occurring by the 3D display based on the stereo pattern image captured by the camera.

The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: a first camera obtaining a true-color image by capturing a subject; a second camera spaced apart from the first camera and obtaining an infrared image by capturing the subject; and a control unit connected to the first camera and the second camera, wherein the control unit matches the true-color image and the infrared image and obtains three-dimensional information of the subject by using the matched infrared image in a region corresponding to the matched true-color image and a valid pixel.

A method for assessing quality of a VR video, including: obtaining a bit rate, a frame rate, resolution, and TI of a VR video, and determining a mean opinion score (MOS) of the VR video based on the bit rate, the frame rate, the resolution, and the TI of the VR video. The MOS of the VR video is used to represent quality of the VR video. Further, an assessment apparatus is provided. In the embodiments, accuracy of an assessment result of a VR video can be improved.

Mobile phones and other portable devices are equipped with a variety of technologies by which existing functionality can be improved, and new functionality can be provided. Some aspects relate to visual search capabilities, and determining appropriate actions responsive to different image inputs. Others relate to processing of image data. Still others concern metadata generation, processing, and representation. Yet others concern user interface improvements. Other aspects relate to imaging architectures, in which a mobile phone's image sensor is one in a chain of stages that successively act on packetized instructions/data, to capture and later process imagery. Still other aspects relate to distribution of processing tasks between the mobile device and remote resources (“the cloud”). Elemental image processing (e.g., simple filtering and edge detection) can be performed on the mobile phone, while other operations can be referred out to remote service providers. The remote service providers can be selected using techniques such as reverse auctions, through which they compete for processing tasks. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.

Stereoscopic display technologies are provided. A computing device generates a stereoscopic display of an object by coordinating a first image and a second image. To reduce discomfort or to reduce diplopic content, the computing device may adjust at least one display property of the first image and/or the second image depending on one or more factors. The factors may include a time period associated with the display of the object, the vergence distance to the object, the distance to the focal plane of the display, contextual data interpreted from the images and/or any combination of these and other factors. Adjustments to the display properties can include a modification of one or more contrast properties and/or other modifications to the images. The adjustment to the display properties may be applied with varying levels of intensity and/or be applied at different times depending on one or more factors and/or contextual information.

A device for recognizing distance in real time includes first, second, and cameras. The third camera arranged nearer the first camera than the second camera. The first, second and third cameras acquire simultaneously first, second and third images, respectively, and an electronic circuit of the device estimates the distance of an object as a function of a stereoscopic correspondence established between first and second elements representative of the object. The first and second elements belong to the first and second images, respectively. The stereoscopic correspondence is established by a relationship between the first elements and corresponding third elements belonging to the third image.

A method of aligning optical axes of cameras for a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs is disclosed. The one or more programs comprise instructions, which when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform by one or more autonomous vehicle driving modules execution of processing of images using the following steps comprising: calibrating intrinsic parameters of a set of cameras; extracting corner points associated with a pattern; and computing a vanishing point based on information on the extracted corner points.

An autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle tire imaging and inspection system and methods thereof installed onboard a vehicle providing frequent status for inner and outer tire sidewalls, tire tread wear and tread depth, recorded in memory, transmitted to an onboard diagnostics unit, displayed on a dashboard and optionally transmitted to a network. Autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle vehicles may require passing a safety compliance inspection before driving and receive an insurance compliance approval to operate said vehicles.

A system and methods for attaining optimal precision digital image stereoscopic direction and ranging through air and across a refractive boundary separating air from a liquid or plasma using stereo-cameras, and employing a minimum variance sub-pixel registration method for determining precise estimates of the parallax angle between left and right stereo images. The system and methods can also track measurement and estimation variances as they propagate through the system in order to provide a comprehensive precision analysis of all estimated quantities.