IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately recognize information required in driving assistance or automatic driving while reducing a calculation load.SOLUTION: An image recognition device 1 of a vehicle provided with a camera 9 for photographing a vehicle exterior includes: a three-dimensional map data 2 in which three-dimensional position information of a stationary object present in the vehicle exterior is set; a detection part 4 detecting the stationary object as an object subjected to image recognition processing based on relative positions of the vehicle and the stationary object and a distance between the vehicle and the stationary object; a setting part 5, from a photographing range photographed by the camera 9, narrowing down a range, in which the object is included, based on a current position of the vehicle and the three-dimensional map data 2 and then setting the aforementioned range as a recognition range; and a processing part 6 performing the image recognition processing only within the recognition range.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】演算負荷を低減しながら、運転支援や自動運転において必要とされる情報を適切に認識する。【解決手段】車外を撮像するカメラ９が設けられた車両の画像認識装置１において、車外に存在する静止物体の三次元の位置情報が設定された三次元地図データ２と、車両と静止物体との相対位置および車両と静止物体との距離に基づいて、静止物体を画像認識処理の対象物として検出する検出部４と、車両の現在位置および三次元地図データ２に基づいて、カメラ９で撮像される撮像範囲の中から対象物が含まれる範囲を絞って認識範囲として設定する設定部５と、認識範囲内にのみ画像認識処理を施す処理部６と、を備える。【選択図】図１