Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Alireza Rahimpour

Devesh Upadhyay

Jonathan Diedrich

Justin Miller, Jr

Mark Gehrke

Ashish Tawari

Sujitha Catherine Martin

Iman Soltani Bozchalooi

Hairong Qi

Navid Fallahinia

A far-infrared camera mounted in a vehicle generates an image frame. When an image of a large animal is identified in the image frame, a pixel intensity of the large animal image is determined. An estimated distance to the large animal from the far-infrared camera based on the pixel intensity is determined. When the animal is classified as a tracked animal, and future trajectories of the tracked animal and the vehicle intersect, a component in the vehicle is actuated.

Large animal detection and intervention in a vehicle

A plurality of thermal images forward of a vehicle are collected. Thermal data in the plurality of thermal images is normalized based on an ambient air temperature to generate a plurality of normalized thermal images. The plurality of normalized thermal images are input to a machine learning program trained to output an identification of an object based on the ambient air temperature and a risk of collision between the vehicle and the object. A vehicle component is actuated based on the identification of the object and the risk of collision with the object.

Object identification with thermal imaging

A method includes detecting, for each of a plurality of images, a plurality of key points, where each of the plurality of images represents an object of an assembly system. The method includes generating, for each of the plurality of images, a correspondence between the plurality of key points, and generating, for each of the plurality of images, a reference region based on the correspondence between the plurality of key points. The method includes identifying, for each of the plurality of images, a reference key point among the plurality of key points based on the reference region, and determining a pose of the object based on the reference key point of each of the plurality of images and a reference pose of the object.

Systems and methods for image-based component detection

A system and method for providing context aware road user importance estimation that include receiving at least one image of a vicinity of an ego vehicle. The system and method also include analyzing the at least one image to determine a local context associated with at least one road user located within the vicinity of the ego vehicle. The system and method additionally include determining a global context associated with the ego vehicle. The system and method further include fusing the local context and the global context to classify at least one highly important road user that is to be accounted for with respect to operating the ego vehicle.

System and method for providing context aware road-user importance estimation

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Alireza Rahimpour