Design win; Toshiba image recognition processor in forward-looking automotive camera system
Visconti4 is a multi-engine road-safety solution that provides drivers with real-time analytics of road conditions and potential dangers. The latest iteration of the influential European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP), the EU-backed safety standard – Toshiba notes – adds criteria for evaluating anti-collision features that improve protection for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The Visconti4 image recognition processor is equipped with eight media processing engines, allowing it to execute eight applications simultaneously. It can detect and analyze camera-generated images and recognizes traffic lanes; nearby vehicles, both parked and moving; traffic signs and signals; the headlights of oncoming vehicles; plus the most vulnerable road users of all, bicyclists and pedestrians.
Visconti4 has double the number of processing engines of its predecessor, the Visconti2, also used by Denso. It also integrates a new image recognition algorithm, Enhanced CoHOG ( Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients technology) Accelerator that delivers enhanced processing of luminance differences between objects and their backgrounds to better detect pedestrians at night and low light conditions.
Toshiba and Denso are also cooperating in AI, on the development of deep neural network-intellectual property (DNN-IP) for use in image recognition, and plan to bring this to future additions to the Visconti series.
Toshiba Electronics Europe; www.toshiba.semicon-storage.com
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