OBJECT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND OBJECT IDENTIFICATION METHOD

To improve the performance of object identification by suppressing erroneous recognition regardless of whether a distance from a moving object to an object is near or far.SOLUTION: An object identification device includes: a distance calculation unit 22 for receiving external information including an object outside a vehicle acquired by an external information acquisition unit 1 mounted on the vehicle to obtain the distance from the vehicle to the object; an identification score calculation unit 23 for acquiring an identification score showing a confidence level at which an object included in the external information is of a given type by use of the external information; and an object identification unit 26 for identifying that the object is a type associated with the identification score in the case that the identification score exceeds a predetermined threshold 71. The threshold 71 differs depending on the distance.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】移動体から物体までの距離が近傍及び遠方にかかわらず、誤識別を抑制し、物体識別の性能を向上させる。【解決手段】車両に搭載された外界情報取得部１によって取得された車外の物体を含む外界情報が入力され、車両から物体までの距離を求める距離算出部２２と、外界情報を用いて、外界情報に含まれる物体が所定の種類である信頼度を示す識別スコアを求める識別スコア算出部２３と、識別スコアが予め定められたしきい値７１を超えた場合に、物体が当該識別スコアと対応付けられた種類であると識別する物体識別部２６と、を備える。しきい値７１は、距離に応じて異なる。【選択図】図１