Vehicle control using vision-based flashing light signal detection

    公开(公告)号:US11281230B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US16837017

    申请日:2020-04-01

    申请人: Waymo LLC

    摘要: A computing device of a first vehicle may receive a first image and a second image of a second vehicle having flashing light signals. The computing device may determine, in the first image and the second image, an image region that bounds the second vehicle such that the image region substantially encompasses the second vehicle. The computing device may determine a polar grid that partitions the image region in the first image and the second image into polar bins, and identify portions of image data exhibiting a change in color and a change in brightness between the first image and the second image. The computing device may determine a type of the flashing light signals and a type of the second vehicle; and accordingly provide instructions to control the first vehicle.

    Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program for clipping images included in a large image

    公开(公告)号:US11144777B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US16313753

    申请日:2016-06-30

    发明人: Daiki Kimura

    摘要: The apparatus includes an image data obtainer, a candidate region extractor, a candidate line extractor, an overlap degree determiner, and a clip image region extractor. The candidate region extractor extracts, as a candidate region, a region containing an object detectable from the image data. The candidate line extractor extracts, as a candidate line, a line that is at least either a line segment or an arc included in the image data. The overlap degree determiner determines whether the degree of overlap between a closed line forming the outline of the candidate region extracted and the candidate line extracted is greater than or equal to a preset predetermined first percentage value. If the overlap degree determiner determines that the degree of overlap is greater than or equal to the first percentage value, the clip image region extractor 19 extracts the candidate region as a clip image.

    Structured Light Depth Imaging Under Various Lighting Conditions

    公开(公告)号:US20210279493A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-09

    申请号:US17331084

    申请日:2021-05-26

    摘要: A method of image processing in a structured light imaging system is provided that includes receiving a captured image of a scene, wherein the captured image is captured by a camera of a projector-camera pair, and wherein the captured image includes a binary pattern projected into the scene by the projector, applying a filter to the rectified captured image to generate a local threshold image, wherein the local threshold image includes a local threshold value for each pixel in the rectified captured image, and extracting a binary image from the rectified captured image wherein a value of each location in the binary image is determined based on a comparison of a value of a pixel in a corresponding location in the rectified captured image to a local threshold value in a corresponding location in the local threshold image.

    Associating spatial point sets with candidate correspondences

    公开(公告)号:US10963733B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-30

    申请号:US16442911

    申请日:2019-06-17

    申请人: Tianzhi Yang

    发明人: Tianzhi Yang

    摘要: A computer implemented method for generating a one-to-one mapping between a first spatial point set and a second spatial point set in nD, n=2 or 3, comprising receiving a first and a second spatial point sets in nD and a plurality of candidate correspondences; computing unit conflict lists for the candidate correspondences; generating one or more MatchPairs between the first and the second point sets; computing local distance measures for the MatchPairs; converting the local distance measures to weights; computing conflict lists for pairs of the MatchPairs by taking the bitwise ORs of their candidate correspondences' unit conflict lists; computing correspondence lists for the MatchPairs; computing compatibilities between pairs of the MatchPairs by examining for each pair the bitwise AND of one's correspondence list and the other's conflict list; constructing a vertex-weighted undirected graph with its nodes corresponding to the MatchPairs, its edges representing the compatibilities, and its graph vertices assigned the weights; computing a maximum-weight clique of the vertex-weighted undirected graph; and merging the maximum-weight clique to generate the one-to-one mapping.

    Method, system and computer-readable medium for camera calibration

    公开(公告)号:US10089753B1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-02

    申请号:US15641491

    申请日:2017-07-05

    申请人: Almotive Kft.

    摘要: The invention provides a method, a system and a computer-readable medium for calibrating a camera by using a multi-pattern calibration rig, each pattern being repetitive and comprising calibration shapes, wherein the following steps are carried out: capturing an image of the multi-pattern calibration rig with the camera, segmenting contours of the imaged calibration shapes, building groups of coherent contours based on the similarity of their shapes and their distances from each other, and identifying the positions of the patterns in the image based on the contour groups.

    Structured light depth imaging under various lighting conditions

    公开(公告)号:US10089739B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-02

    申请号:US14296172

    申请日:2014-06-04

    摘要: A method of image processing in a structured light imaging system is provided that includes receiving a captured image of a scene, wherein the captured image is captured by a camera of a projector-camera pair, and wherein the captured image includes a binary pattern projected into the scene by the projector, applying a filter to the rectified captured image to generate a local threshold image, wherein the local threshold image includes a local threshold value for each pixel in the rectified captured image, and extracting a binary image from the rectified captured image wherein a value of each location in the binary image is determined based on a comparison of a value of a pixel in a corresponding location in the rectified captured image to a local threshold value in a corresponding location in the local threshold image.

    Method of incident scene focus area determination

    公开(公告)号:US09818042B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-14

    申请号:US14964277

    申请日:2015-12-09

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00 G06K9/50 G06K9/62

    摘要: Data analytics engines and methods of incident scene focus area determination. The method includes receiving a plurality of directional inputs from a plurality of sources. The method also includes assigning weighting factors to the plurality of directional inputs. The method further includes generating weighted position vectors for each of the plurality of sources based on the plurality of directional inputs and the weighting factors. The method also includes determining when the weighted position vectors for at least two sources of the plurality of sources intersect. The method further includes determining an intersection location and a confidence level based on the weighted position vectors of the at least two sources. The method also includes identifying an incident scene focus area based on the intersection location and the confidence level.