Generating realistic point clouds
    23.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11295517B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-05

    申请号:US17099589

    申请日:2020-11-16

    Applicant: Waymo LLC

    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object; and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.

    Annotated surfel maps
    25.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11915490B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US17819883

    申请日:2022-08-15

    Applicant: Waymo LLC

    CPC classification number: G06V20/56 G06F18/214 G06F18/2415

    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for the generation and use of a surfel map with semantic labels. One of the methods includes receiving a surfel map that includes a plurality of surfels, wherein each surfel has associated data that includes one or more semantic labels; obtaining sensor data for one or more locations in the environment, the sensor data having been captured by one or more sensors of a first vehicle; determining one or more surfels corresponding to the one or more locations of the obtained sensor data; identifying one or more semantic labels for the one or more surfels corresponding to the one or more locations of the obtained sensor data; and performing, for each surfel corresponding to the one or more locations of the obtained sensor data, a label-specific detection process for the surfel.

    GENERATING REALISTIC POINT CLOUDS
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220230387A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-21

    申请号:US17713108

    申请日:2022-04-04

    Applicant: Waymo LLC

    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating realistic full-scene point clouds. One of the methods includes obtaining an initial scene point cloud characterizing an initial scene in an environment; obtaining, for each of one or more objects, an object point cloud that characterizes the object;
    and processing a first input comprising the initial scene point cloud and the one or more object point clouds using a first neural network that is configured to process the first input to generate a final scene point cloud that characterizes a transformed scene that has the one or more objects added to the initial scene.

    MULTI-MODAL 3-D POSE ESTIMATION
    30.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220156965A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17505900

    申请日:2021-10-20

    Applicant: Waymo LLC

    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating a 3-D pose of an object of interest from image and point cloud data. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining an image of an environment; obtaining a point cloud of a three-dimensional region of the environment; generating a fused representation of the image and the point cloud; and processing the fused representation using a pose estimation neural network and in accordance with current values of a plurality of pose estimation network parameters to generate a pose estimation network output that specifies, for each of multiple keypoints, a respective estimated position in the three-dimensional region of the environment.

Patent Agency Ranking