Adaptive Lighting control for vision-based occupant sensing

An object surface characterization system (1) with adaptive lighting control includes a light projector (12A), a light source (52), a camera (17), a processor (19) and a memory subsystem (21). The processor (19) is coupled to the light projector (12A), the light source (52) and the camera (17), as well as the memory subsystem (21). The memory subsystem (21) stores code that, when executed by the processor (19), instructs the processor (19) to perform a number of steps to achieve adaptive lighting control for the system (1).