Patent ID: 9196160
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G01B,G01C,G06K,G06T,G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle detection apparatus comprising: a processor, the processor being configured to: detect a vehicle from an image obtained by photographing the vehicle, the image including a left image and a right image that are photographed from left and right directions with respect to the vehicle; extract a plurality of line-segment components indicating a boundary between a specific region of the vehicle and a vehicle body and included in the image for each of the left and right images; and align at least one line-segment component between the left and right images among the line-segment components forming a closed loop for each of the left and right images, and measure a position of the closed loop as the position of the vehicle based on coordinate information between the aligned line-segment components and photographing position information where the left and right images have been photographed.