Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-view deep neural network for LiDAR perception
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Application No.: US17895940Application Date: 2022-08-25
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Publication No.: US12080078B2Publication Date: 2024-09-03
- Inventor: Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Ryan Oldja , Ke Chen , Alexander Popov , Joachim Pehserl , Ibrahim Eden , Tilman Wekel , David Wehr , Ruchi Bhargava , David Nister
- Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Freestone Intellectual Property Law PLLC
- Main IPC: G06V20/58
- IPC: G06V20/58 ; B60W60/00 ; G01S17/89 ; G01S17/931 ; G05D1/00 ; G06N3/045 ; G06T19/00

Abstract:
A deep neural network(s) (DNN) may be used to detect objects from sensor data of a three dimensional (3D) environment. For example, a multi-view perception DNN may include multiple constituent DNNs or stages chained together that sequentially process different views of the 3D environment. An example DNN may include a first stage that performs class segmentation in a first view (e.g., perspective view) and a second stage that performs class segmentation and/or regresses instance geometry in a second view (e.g., top-down). The DNN outputs may be processed to generate 2D and/or 3D bounding boxes and class labels for detected objects in the 3D environment. As such, the techniques described herein may be used to detect and classify animate objects and/or parts of an environment, and these detections and classifications may be provided to an autonomous vehicle drive stack to enable safe planning and control of the autonomous vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US11915493B2 Multi-view deep neural network for LiDAR perception Public/Granted day:2024-02-27
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