Car2X-communication for vision-based object detection

In this paper, we describe an effective version of an integrated system that combines vision-based object detection and vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). With introduction of VANET in future years, data exchange between vehicles and infrastructure units will be possible and increase safety on roads. The number of vision-based active safety systems, like pedestrian detection and traffic sign recognition, is constantly growing and a hot topic in research. The current project Active Safety Car combines vision-based object detection and VANET communication techniques to achieve improved detection results and to overcome current problems in urban scenarios. We present fundamentals of object detection to illustrate different requirements for a communication system that has to transmit various types of data and describe the implemented system with further details.