Abstract: A dummy device includes a torso element which simulates a torso of a human; a respiration simulation element which at least partially covers the torso element, and which is movably arranged with respect to the torso element; and a drive element which is adapted to sequentially move the respiration simulation element away from the torso element and towards the torso element with a respiratory frequency, to simulate a motion characteristic of a human respiration. Embodiments of the invention further relate to a method for operating a dummy device.

Abstract: A system for determining image capture degradation of a camera sensor is disclosed. The system is configured to capture a series of image frames by a camera of a vehicle over time. The system is configured to generate a latent image from a series of images captured by the camera. The system generates a plurality of frequency layers based on the latent image by, for example, performing a high frequency multiscale fusion transform. The system generates a plurality of frequency layers, each corresponding a spectral sub-band frequency, and each frequency layer includes the coefficients. The system generates a degradation map based on the processed activation map and generates an output based on the activation map. The output may be provided to an output system to wash the camera lens, notify a user or the vehicle of blockage, or modify image processing.

Abstract: A system for determining image capture degradation of a camera sensor is disclosed. The system is configured to capture a series of image frames by a camera of a vehicle over time. The system is configured to generate a latent image from a series of images captured by the camera. The system generates a plurality of frequency layers based on the latent image by, for example, performing a high frequency multiscale fusion transform. The system generates a plurality of frequency layers, each corresponding a spectral sub-band frequency, and each frequency layer includes the coefficients. The system generates a degradation map based on the processed activation map and generates an output based on the activation map. The output may be provided to an output system to wash the camera lens, notify a user or the vehicle of blockage, or modify image processing.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying a drivable area in front of a vehicle. A three-dimensional measurement sensor captures three-dimensional data corresponding to an area in front of the vehicle. Processing circuitry compares the captured three-dimensional data with a three-dimensional ground model to identify at least one obstacle and determine a drivable area in front of the vehicle based on the comparison.

Abstract: A single channel receiver includes an input terminal that receives an analog input signal, a mixer that down-mixes the analog input signal by use of a phase- and/or frequency-corrected oscillator frequency signal and shifts complex-valued information contained in the analog input signal to the real part (or alternatively to the imaginary part) to obtain an intermediate real-valued analog signal, an analog-to-digital-converter that converts the intermediate analog signal into an intermediate digital signal, a demodulator that demodulates the intermediate digital signal into a digital output signal, a phase tracking loop that detects zero-crossings in the intermediate digital signal to obtain phase error information representing a phase error in the intermediate digital signal, and an oscillator that generates the phase- and/or frequency-corrected oscillator frequency signal by compensating the phase and/or frequency error in the intermediate digital signal by correcting the phase of the oscillator frequency si

Abstract: Techniques including obtaining a first location of a vehicle, the vehicle having two or more cameras disposed about the vehicle, each camera associated with a physical camera pose, capturing, by a first camera, a first image of a first area in a first field of view, associating the first image with the first location of the vehicle when the first image was captured, moving the vehicle in a direction so that the first area is in an expected second field of view of a second camera, wherein the second camera is not capturing images, obtaining a second location of the vehicle, determining a temporal camera pose based on a first physical camera pose, a second physical camera pose, and the second location of the vehicle, and rendering a view of the first area from the expected second field of view of the second camera based on the first image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for determining the position of movable dummy elements in a roofed test site, in particular in a hall. The system comprises a camera configured to record an image of a monitoring area of the roofed test site, a movable dummy element which is movable through the monitoring area, the dummy element comprising a marker element arranged to be visible on the recorded image of the monitoring area, and a position determination unit coupled to the camera and configured to determine the position of the marker element in the monitoring area based on the recorded image.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a platform for testing of collisions or near-collision situations between a dummy element and an object to be tested, in particular a vehicle. The platform comprises a base body having a bottom surface and a mounting surface formed opposite to the bottom surface, wherein the dummy element is attachable to the mounting surface. The platform further comprises a roller element arranged at the bottom surface, wherein the roller element is drivable such that the base body is movable along a ground. Further, the platform comprises an alignment device which aligns the base body on the ground in a predetermined orientation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dummy vehicle for performing tests for driver assistance systems. The dummy vehicle comprises a vehicle element reproducing a part of a vehicle to be simulated. The vehicle element forms a shell structure, wherein the shell structure comprises an outer layer and an inner layer. The outer layer is arranged further outwardly in the shell structure than the inner layer. The outer layer is transparent to sensor signals from sensors of the driver assistance system, and the inner layer is designed to be sensor-sensitive to sensor signals from sensors of the driver assistance system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dummy element, in particular a dummy vehicle, comprising a dummy body having an illumination area which simulates an illumination device to be simulated of an element to be simulated, in particular a vehicle, the illumination area having on its surface graphic contours which reproduce a frame of the illumination device to be simulated, and an illuminant, wherein the dummy body comprises, in the illumination area, an opening in which the illuminant is arranged.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a memory and one or more processing circuits is provided. The memory stores a blend table having blend weights. The processing circuits, for partitions of the blend table: determine whether a subset of the pixels associated with the partition includes pixels associated with seamlines defined in a three-dimensional surface representation of the scene. If none of the subset of the pixels are associated with the seamlines, the processing circuits populate a region of the virtual image corresponding to the partition with pixel values from an image captured by one of the plurality of image capture devices. If one or more of the subsets of the pixels is associated with the seamlines, the processing circuits populate the region of the virtual image associated with the partition with blended pixel values from two or more images captured by two or more of the plurality of image capture devices.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relates to a dummy device for performing tests for driver assistance systems. The dummy device comprises a base body with a simulation region, wherein the base body depicts an object to be simulated and the simulation region depicts a movable part of the object the simulated, and at least one simulation element which is arranged at the simulation region. The simulation element is configured to reflect and/or to emit signals such that a motion of the movable part of the object to be simulated is simulatable.

Abstract: There is described a vehicle target for testing sensors of vehicle driver assistant systems. The vehicle target comprises an outer skin defining the outer geometry of the vehicle target, wherein the outer skin at least partially surrounds an inner volume. The vehicle target further comprises at least one panel comprising a basic body and a radar absorbing or reflecting layer attached to the basic body, wherein the panel is mounted to the outer skin such that at least the radar absorbing or reflecting material/layer has an offset with respect to the outer skin in the direction to the inner volume.

Abstract: A method for generating a surround view (SV) image for display in a view port of an SV processing system is provided that includes capturing, by at least one processor, corresponding images of video streams from each camera of a plurality of cameras and generating, by the at least one processor, the SV image using ray tracing for lens remapping to identify coordinates of pixels in the images corresponding to pixels in the SV image.

Abstract: The invention relates to a dummy system comprising a dummy element and a displaceable platform, wherein the dummy element is attached to the platform P a manner inclinable relatively to the platform.

Abstract: A collision testing vehicle is disclosed which can be utilized to perform testing with a driver assistance system. The collision testing vehicle includes a vehicle having a vehicle body. The vehicle is structured to be subject to an impact force during a collision with a collision body. A wheel is coupled to the vehicle body, and the wheel includes a detachable support that is configured to non-destructively detach from the wheel when subjected to the impact force.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle (100), in particular a bicycle, for performing tests for a driver assistance system. The vehicle (100) has a base body (101) and at least one strut (102), which is formed to be dimensionally stable without influence of an impact force, which is generatable upon a collision of the vehicle (100) with a collision body, and is elastically deformable upon influence of the impact force. The strut (102) is connected to the base body (101) such that upon influence of the impact force the strut (102) is non-destructively detachable from the base body (101).

Abstract: A single channel receiver includes an input terminal that receives an analog input signal, a mixer that down-mixes the analog input signal by use of a phase- and/or frequency-corrected oscillator frequency signal and shifts complex-valued information contained in the analog input signal to the real part (or alternatively to the imaginary part) to obtain an intermediate real-valued analog signal, an analog-to-digital-converter that converts the intermediate analog signal into an intermediate digital signal, a demodulator that demodulates the intermediate digital signal into a digital output signal, a phase tracking loop that detects zero-crossings in the intermediate digital signal to obtain phase error information representing a phase error in the intermediate digital signal, and an oscillator that generates the phase- and/or frequency-corrected oscillator frequency signal by compensating the phase and/or frequency error in the intermediate digital signal by correcting the phase of the oscillator frequency si

Abstract: A method for generating a surround view (SV) image for display in a view port of an SV processing system is provided that includes capturing, by at least one processor, corresponding images of video streams from each camera of a plurality of cameras and generating, by the at least one processor, the SV image using ray tracing for lens remapping to identify coordinates of pixels in the images corresponding to pixels in the SV image.

Abstract: Techniques including obtaining a first location of a vehicle, the vehicle having one or more cameras disposed about the vehicle, and wherein each camera is associated with a physical camera pose indicating where each camera is located with respect to the vehicle, capturing, by a first camera, a first image of a first area, associating the first image with the first location of the vehicle when the first image was captured, moving the vehicle in a direction so that the first area is no longer within a field of view of the first camera, obtaining a second location of the vehicle, determining a temporal camera pose based on the physical camera pose of the first camera and the second location of the vehicle, and rendering a view of the first area based on the temporal camera pose and the first image.