In the fast-moving world of automotive technology, computer vision is at the forefront of innovations for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. High-quality automotive cameras, particularly the image signal processor (ISP) that powers them, are at the heart of these systems’ performance. Ensuring optimum performance through rigorous Camera ISP testing is essential for automotive applications’ accuracy, safety, and compliance.
Key Highlights
LED Flicker mitigation
Details (MTF, Resolution, FCR)
Noise
Flare
Dynamic Range (YUV)
Contrast metrics (CPI, CTA, CDP, CSNR)
Color fidelity
Tone mapping
Low light conditions
Exposure and color temporal adaptation
Adapted to each applications and specifications
Testing the camera’s ISP involves a series of evaluations designed to ensure that automotive cameras accurately process and produce images. It is responsible for critical image enhancements such as noise reduction, color correction and contrast adjustments, which are essential to the functionality of computer vision systems in vehicles.
Enhanced On-road Safety
Computer vision systems rely on precise image processing to identify objects, detect traffic lanes and recognize road signs.
A properly tested ISP ensures that these systems can operate reliably, reducing the risk of accident-prone errors.
Performance in Various Environments
Automotive cameras need to perform consistently in a variety of conditions, from sunlight to total darkness. ISP testing ensures that the camera can adapt to different lighting and weather conditions, providing reliable data for the vehicle’s computer vision systems.
Meeting Regulatory Standards
Compliance with global automotive safety standards is nonnegotiable. Rigorous ISP testing helps manufacturers to meet these regulations, ensuring that their vehicles are safe and ready for the road.
Optimized AI and Machine Learning Integration
Computer vision systems often use artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms that require high-quality image data to operate accurately.
A well-tested ISP ensures that these systems receive the clean,
accurate data they need to perform optimally.
DXOMARK puts its 20+ years of expertise at the service of its customers to provide an impartial measurement report, as thorough as necessary, on the sensors available on the market. Our methodology ensures the accuracy and repeatability of results, enabling them to be compared throughout the Camera Analyzer laboratory installed worldwide. Our decades of expertise enable us not only to offer a solid base of standard tests but also to develop state-of-the-art test tools
(such as all IEEE-P2020 measurements, a brand-new standard set of measurements dedicated to Automotive testing)
and the challenges & needs of each customer.
These tests feed data into the camera industry, publicly on DSLRs, Smartphones, and now Laptops. However, our expertise extends far beyond the publicly visible part,
with Automotive camera testing in particular. DXOMARK remains the leader in camera testing, and our reports can be used as a selling point, too, by comparing competing
systems with the same measurements.
The next challenge is to build an analysis of these results to establish a choice. Having already tested several hundred cameras in the Automotive sector and several thousand across all security, AR/VR, etc. markets, DXOMARK can provide a detailed analysis of the results provided in a test report, as well as the targets to be reached according to the applications targeted.
