US 12,136,229 B1
Geometric confidence for tracking objects
Shuangting Liu, Foster City, CA (US); Francesco Papi, Oakland, CA (US); and Qian Song, San Mateo, CA (US)
Assigned to Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US)
Filed by Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/829,163.
Int. Cl. G06T 7/60 (2017.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06T 7/20 (2017.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/98 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 7/60 (2013.01) [B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G06T 7/20 (2013.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 10/98 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B60W 2554/20 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4026 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4044 (2020.02); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01); G06V 2201/07 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions executable by one or more processors, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving sensor data representing an object in an environment;
determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, multi-channel input data representing the environment;
inputting the multi-channel input data into a machine-learned (ML) model;
determining, by the ML model, a candidate bounding box representing the object in the environment and a confidence value associated with the candidate bounding box;
receiving ground truth data associated with the multi-channel input data, the ground truth data including a ground truth bounding box associated with the object;
determining an intersection over union (IoU) between the candidate bounding box the ground truth bounding box;
determining a first loss based at least in part on the IoU:
determining a second loss based at least in part on the confidence value associated with the candidate bounding box; and
training the ML model based at least in part on the first loss and the second loss.