Radar image acquisition and interpretation for automotive applications

Future safety and comfort systems will require clearly enhanced capabilities for environmental sensing and traffic scene understanding. This paper points out the potential of millimeter-wave radar sensors with high spatial resolution and high sensitivity for this demanding task, and addresses some aspects of practical implementation. The enhanced perception capabilities of imaging radar in traffic environment are demonstrated, and methods of image processing based automatic scenario interpretation are described. This comprises road course prediction and object segmentation with corresponding applications.