Abstract: A method estimates free space near a moving object from a sequence of images in a video acquired of a scene by a camera system arranged on the moving object by first constructing a one-dimensional graph, wherein each node corresponds to a column of pixels in the image. Features are determined in the image, and an energy function is constructed on the graph based on the features. Using dynamic programming, the energy function is maximized to obtain the free space.

Abstract: To reduce flickering in driving distributed processing, an image processing apparatus which generates and outputs a plurality of sub frame images having different luminance patterns for each of a plurality of frame images included in input moving image data, includes a filtering unit configured to perform filter processing for the frame image, a setting unit configured to set a first coefficient A and a second coefficient B, a first generation unit configured to generate a first sub frame image, a second generation unit configured to generate a second sub frame image, and an output control unit configured to selectively output the first sub frame image and the second sub frame image at a predetermined timing.