LATENCY MASKING IN AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE USING EDGE NETWORK COMPUTING RESOURCES

    公开(公告)号:US20220248194A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-04

    申请号:US17162452

    申请日:2021-01-29

    Abstract: A latency masking system for use in an autonomous vehicle (AV) system. The latency masking system comprises a sensors module providing sensor data from a plurality of sensors. The sensor data includes image frames provided by a vehicle camera and vehicle motion data. A wireless transceiver transmits the sensor data to a remote server associated with a network infrastructure and receives remote state information derived from the sensor data. An on-board function module receives the sensor data from the sensors module and generates local state information. A state fusion and prediction module receives the remote station information and the local state information and updates the local state information with the remote state information. The state fusion and prediction module uses checkpoints in a state history data structure to update the local state information with the remote state information.

    SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING MIDDLEWARE NODE APPLICATION ALGORITHMS USING THREADS

    公开(公告)号:US20220222129A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17147043

    申请日:2021-01-12

    Abstract: A system includes a queue, a memory and a controller. The queue is configured to transfer a message between a first thread and a second thread, where the first thread and the second thread are implemented as part of a single process, and where an amount of data corresponding to the message is less than a set amount of data. The memory is configured for sharing data between the first thread and the second thread, wherein an amount of the data shared between the first thread and the second thread is greater than the set amount of data. The controller is configured to execute the single process including concurrently executing (i) a first middleware node process as the first thread, and (ii) a second middleware node process as the second thread.

    Identification of attention region for enhancement of sensor-based detection in a vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US10984534B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US16367579

    申请日:2019-03-28

    Abstract: Systems and methods to identify an attention region in sensor-based detection involve obtaining a detection result that indicates one or more detection areas where one or more objects of interest are detected. The detection result is based on using a first detection algorithm. The method includes obtaining a reference detection result that indicates one or more reference detection areas where one or more objects of interest are detected. The reference detection result is based on using a second detection algorithm. The method also includes identifying the attention region as one of the one or more reference detection areas without a corresponding one or more detection areas. The first detection algorithm is used to perform detection in the attention region.

    Fixed-point quantization in neural networks for vehicle perception systems

    公开(公告)号:US10909390B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-02

    申请号:US16170478

    申请日:2018-10-25

    Abstract: Examples of techniques for using fixed-point quantization in deep neural networks are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes capturing a plurality of images at a camera associated with a vehicle and storing image data associated with the plurality of images to a memory. The method further includes dispatching vehicle perception tasks to a plurality of processing elements of an accelerator in communication with the memory. The method further includes performing, by at least one of the plurality of processing elements, the vehicle perception tasks for the vehicle perception using a neural network, wherein performing the vehicle perception tasks comprises quantizing a fixed-point value based on an activation input and a synapse weight. The method further includes controlling the vehicle based at least in part on a result of performing the vehicle perception tasks.

    PERCEPTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LOW LIGHTING CONDITIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20210018928A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-21

    申请号:US16515592

    申请日:2019-07-18

    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting objects within an environment of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by a processor, image data sensed from the environment of the vehicle; determining, by a processor, an area within the image data that object identification is uncertain; controlling, by the processor, a position of a lighting device to illuminate a location in the environment of the vehicle, wherein the location is associated with the area; controlling, by the processor, a position of one or more sensors to obtain sensor data from the location of the environment of the vehicle while the lighting device is illuminating the location; identifying, by the processor, one or more objects from the sensor data; and controlling, by the processor, the vehicle based on the one or more objects.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED DISTANCE ESTIMATION BY A MONO-CAMERA USING RADAR AND MOTION DATA

    公开(公告)号:US20200167941A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-28

    申请号:US16200932

    申请日:2018-11-27

    Abstract: Systems and methods for depth estimation of images from a mono-camera by use of radar data by: receiving, a plurality of input 2-D images from the mono-camera; generating, by the processing unit, an estimated depth image by supervised training of an image estimation model; generating, by the processing unit, a synthetic image from a first input image and a second input image from the mono-camera by applying an estimated transform pose; comparing, by the processing unit, an estimated three-dimensional (3-D) point cloud to radar data by applying another estimated transform pose to a 3-D point cloud wherein the 3-D point cloud is estimated from a depth image by supervised training of the image estimation model to radar distance and radar doppler measurement; correcting a depth estimation of the estimated depth image by losses derived from differences: of the synthetic image and original images; of an estimated depth image and a measured radar distance; and of an estimated doppler information and measured radar doppler information.

    High Precision Low Bit Convolutional Neural Network

    公开(公告)号:US20200065661A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16107315

    申请日:2018-08-21

    Abstract: Described herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating and training a high precision low bit convolutional neural network (CNN). A filter of each convolutional layer of the CNN is approximated using one or more binary filters and a real-valued activation function is approximated using a linear combination of binary activations. More specifically, a non-1×1 filter (e.g., a k×k filter, where k>1) is approximated using a scaled binary filter and a 1×1 filter is approximated using a linear combination of binary filters. Thus, a different strategy is employed for approximating different weights (e.g., 1×1 filter vs. a non-1×1 filter). In this manner, convolutions performed in convolutional layer(s) of the high precision low bit CNN become binary convolutions that yield a lower computational cost while still maintaining a high performance (e.g., a high accuracy).

    Autonomous vehicle adaptive parallel image processing system

    公开(公告)号:US10572748B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-25

    申请号:US15833382

    申请日:2017-12-06

    Abstract: An adaptive parallel imaging processing system in a vehicle is provided. The system may include, but is not limited to, a plurality of processors and a resource management system including, but not limited to, an execution monitor, the execution monitor configured to calculate an average utilization of each of the plurality of processors over a moving window, and a service scheduler controlling a request queue for each of the plurality of processors, the service scheduler scheduling image processing tasks in the respective request queue for the each of the plurality of processors based upon the average utilization of each of the plurality of processors, the capabilities of each of the plurality of processors, and a priority associated with each image processing task, wherein an autonomous vehicle control system is configured to generate the instructions to control the at least one vehicle system based upon the processed image processing tasks.

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