Patent ID: 8077204

Claim:
A vehicle periphery monitoring device which monitors a periphery of a vehicle on the basis of acquired images by a camera mounted on the vehicle and acquiring images of the periphery of the vehicle, comprising: a distance detecting unit which detects a distance between the camera and an object; an object image extracting unit which extracts a first image portion of the object from the acquired image by the camera; a local processing region setting unit which sets, on the basis of an assumed value of a size of a pedestrian, and the distance between the object in real space corresponding to the first image portion and the camera detected by the distance detecting unit, a surrounding region of the first image portion including the first image portion as a local processing region, a filtering unit which performs only to the local processing region, on the basis of an assumed value of a width in a horizontal direction of the pedestrian, and the distance between the camera and the object in real space corresponding to the first image portion detected by the distance detecting unit, a filtering process to the acquired image with a Gabor filter, in which a target edge width is set to be narrower as the assumed value of the width is smaller and the distance is longer, and in which a target edge direction is set to a direction orthogonal to the horizontal direction; and an object type identifying unit which identifies the type of the object in real space corresponding to the second image portion as a pedestrian, when a lower end of the second image portion extracted by the filtering process performed to the local processing region is included in a lower half region of the local processing region in the local processing region.