SURFACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM

A surface recognition system (10) configured to assist a vehicle safety system (100) and comprising an optical instrument (20) configured to capture an image (22) surface, an electronic control system (40) configured to receive the image and to process the image, the electronic control system including a neural network (60), the neural network configured to receive the processed image (24), to determine semantic labels for corresponding pixels of the processed image, and to assign the semantic labels to the corresponding pixels of the processed image to formulate a semantic segmentation (26) of the processed image, and wherein the electronic control system is configured to communicate the semantic segmentation to a vehicle safety system of a vehicle capable of controlling a function of the vehicle, and communication of the semantic segmentation to the vehicle safety system adjusts control of the function of the vehicle.