Infrared Image Processing for Obstacle Avoidance

Most road accidents are due to a lack of perception of the driver about the road situation. PAROTO system’s objective is to help the driver in detecting obstacles and thus allow him a better and earlier reaction in dangerous situations. Data coming from a Radar and an infrared camera are merged in order to take advantage of complementary information. Eventually the driver can be alerted after a filtering step. In this paper, we present the infrared channel, from the segmentation technique using the particular content of infrared images, to their exploitation in the interpretation of the road scene, through motion analysis.