Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Haruyuki Iwama

Yuichi Taguchi

Chen Feng

Srikumar Ramalingam

Esra Cansizoglu

Khalid Yousif

A system for reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of a scene including a point cloud having points identified by 3D coordinates includes at least one sensor to acquire a set of images of the scene from different poses defining viewpoints of the images and a memory to store the set of images and the 3D model of the scene. The system also includes a processor operatively connected to the memory and coupled with stored instructions to transform the images from the set of images to produce a set of virtual images of the scene viewed from virtual viewpoints; compare at least some features from the images and the virtual images to determine the viewpoint of each image in the set of images; and update 3D coordinates of at least one point in the model of the scene to match coordinates of intersections of ray back-projections from pixels of at least two images corresponding to the point according to the viewpoints of the two images.

System and method for virtually-augmented visual simultaneous localization and mapping

A system controls motion of vehicle according to a first parking path ending at a target state and determines a second parking path from a current state to the target state using a model of the parking space. The system acquires images of the parking space during the motion of the vehicle along the first parking path and constructs the model of the parking space. The model is used to generate a set of virtual images of the environment of the parking space as viewed from virtual viewpoints outside of the first parking path. The current state of the vehicle is determined by comparing a current image of the parking space with at least one virtual image. The second parking path is determined from the current state to the target state.

Vehicle automated parking system and method

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Tokyo, Japan

Haruyuki Iwama