Method for evaluating the optical appearance of a driving
route (28, 29, 30), wherein - from at least one motor vehicle (3) that is driving or has driven on the
route (28, 29, 30), video data (6) containing an
image sequence (13) of the
route (28, 29, 30) which is transmitted to a computing device (4) via a respective
communication link (7) and received - by an analysis device (12) on the basis of the video data (6) to images (14) of the
image sequence (13) a correspondence value (15) concerning a degree of correspondence of the image (14) with a predetermined attractiveness criterion is determined and - the agreement values (15) of the images (14) are combined to form an evaluation
signal (10) for the
image sequence (13) and - the evaluation
signal (10) is provided as a description of the appearance of the route (28, 29, 30) and - a maximum range (16) of the evaluation
signal (10) is detected in which at least one of the agreement values (15) of the evaluation signal (10) is greater than a predetermined threshold (17), and - from the image sequence (13) at least one image (14) corresponding to the maximum range (16) of the image sequence (13) is determined and output, and - for each of the images (14) of the image sequence (13) a quality value (18) of an
optical quality of the image (14) is generated based on a predetermined quality measure, wherein the quality measure specifies a signal-to-
noise ratio and / or an image sharpness, and - the quality values (18) are combined to form a quality signal (11) and - that at least one corresponding image (14) is determined from the maximum range (16) depending on the quality signal (11) and wherein - a playback duration of that part of the image sequence (13) for which the evaluation signal (10) has the maximum range (16) is determined and - depending on the playback duration either a video signal or only a
single image (14) is output, whereby - for a route evaluation, each evaluation signal (10) is summarized by forming a mean value to obtain a single overall value (31) in order to obtain a compact statement about a journey route, and - the total value (31) for a journey and the extracted images are provided by the computing device (4) and - a
navigation system (21) of a vehicle (5) and the computing unit (4) establish a
communication link (22) and - the vehicle (5) obtains the extracted images and total values from the computing unit (4) and graphically returns them to the driver as a route preview and route evaluation.