360° Surround View System with Parking Guidance

• DOI: 10.4271/2014-01-0157
• Publication Date: 2014-04-02T06:12:54Z
• Authors: Mengmeng Yu; Guanglin Ma
• Keywords: 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences; 11. Sustainability; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

In this paper, we present a real-time 360 degree surround system with parking aid feature, which is a very convenient parking and blind spot aid system. In the proposed system, there are four fisheye cameras mounted around a vehicle to cover the whole surrounding area. After correcting the distortion of four fisheye images and registering all images on a planar surface, a flexible stitching method was developed to smooth the seam of adjacent images away to generate a high-quality result. In the post-process step, a unique brightness balance algorithm was proposed to compensate the exposure difference as the images are not captured with the same exposure condition. In addition, a unique parking guidance feature is applied on the surround view scene by utilizing steering wheel angle information as well as vehicle speed information.