Abstract: An apparatus for object detection around a vehicle includes an imaging device mounted on the vehicle and a computing device. The imaging device is used to capture a video of an exterior environment of the vehicle. The computing device is used to execute a DSFPN module in order to provide a DSFPN model detector, which functions as a perception unit to process and analyze the video captured by the imaging device and to estimate a scale, a location and categories of an object. The DSFPN model detector includes a bottom-up subnet provided with auxiliary prediction heads, and a top-down subnet provided with prediction heads. When the DSFPN model detector is performed in a model training stage, both the prediction heads and the auxiliary prediction heads are used. In a detection stage, only the prediction heads are used in the DSFPN model detector, and the auxiliary prediction heads are removed.

Abstract: Apparatus for vehicle driver recognition includes: a NIR LED illuminator, configured to emit NIR light in the vehicle; a NIR light sensing unit, configured to capture reflected NIR light; an image controlling and processing unit, configured to coordinate the NIR LED illuminator and the NIR light sensing unit, and analyze the reflected NIR light to generate an image; a face detector, configured to determine that a human face exists in the image, and identify a face region; a face feature extractor, configured to analyze the face region to extract a feature vector representing the face region; a face feature dictionary, configured to store existing feature vectors; a face retrieval system, configured to generate an identification result, indicating whether a similarity between the feature vector and any of the existing feature vectors is greater than a first threshold; and a user interface, configured to display the identification result.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for measuring physiological information of a living subject in a vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes an illumination unit configured to emit light at a wavelength and illuminate a region of interest (ROI) of the living subject with the emitted light; a light sensing unit configured to remotely acquire signals of light in a range of wavelengths reflected from the ROI of the living subject responsive to the illumination; a remote photoplethysmography (PPG) extraction unit configured to extract PPG signals from the acquired signals of light; a PPG processing unit configured to process the extracted PPG signals in the form of vital signs and subsequently determine a physical and psychological status of the living subject according to the vital signs; and a control unit configured to activate the illumination unit in a time-varying pattern and to activate the light sensing unit accordingly.