Trends in camera based Automotive Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

Advance Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), once limited to high end luxury automobiles are fast becoming popular with Mid and entry level segments driven in part by legislation coming in to effect in the latter part of this decade. These systems require support for a wide variety of applications, from surround-view visual systems to safety critical vision applications (eg Pedestrian Detect, automatic braking etc). In this white paper we describe some of the existing and emerging trends and applications in each of these segments along with the requirements and motivations for each of these features. We also highlight TI's automotive class TDA2x device, a state of the art automotive grade device capable of handling complex ADAS applications within a low power and cost budget.