Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Top-down object detection from LiDAR point clouds
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Application No.: US17377064Application Date: 2021-07-15
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Publication No.: US12164059B2Publication Date: 2024-12-10
- 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: G01S7/48
- IPC: G01S7/48 ; B60W60/00 ; G01S17/89 ; G01S17/931 ; G05D1/00 ; G06N3/045 ; G06T19/00 ; G06V10/10 ; G06V10/25 ; G06V10/26 ; G06V10/44 ; G06V10/764 ; G06V10/774 ; G06V10/80 ; G06V10/82 ; G06V20/56 ; G06V20/58

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
- US20210342609A1 TOP-DOWN OBJECT DETECTION FROM LIDAR POINT CLOUDS Public/Granted day:2021-11-04
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