New image-processing technology determines pedestrian behavior

An auto supplier company has developed image-processing technology that detects pedestrian behavior.

Automotive equipment supplier Denso's technology can determine what type of pedestrians are in front of a car and a computer can easily distinguish and predict pedestrians, Cnet reported.

Denso engineers Ikuro Sato and Hidek Nihara have outlined how their image-processing software could examine the frames of a camera feed and extrapolate.

The software first breaks down each frame as a still image into multiple layers, helping define edges that will ultimately help a car's computer to determine what sort of pedestrians or objects are in its field of view.

According to the developers, this technology would pop up alerts when a pedestrian was likely to enter a car's path and drivers would be able to negotiate crowded urban streets.