Patent attributes
An apparatus for recognizing a division line on a road from an image captured by a camera includes: a processing area setting unit to set a processing area to the image; a statistics calculation unit to calculate statistics of the image in the processing area; a threshold value setting unit to set a plurality of threshold values on the basis of the statistics; a division line feature point extraction unit to classify a plurality of pixels contained in the image on the basis of the white line threshold value and the road surface threshold value and extracts feature points of the division line on the basis of classification results of the plurality of pixels; and a division line decision unit configured to decide the division line on the basis of the feature points extracted by the division line feature point extraction unit.