Uatc, LLC

Aurora Operations, Inc.

Hongbo Fan

Raquel Urtasun

Shenlong Wang

Julieta Martinez Covarrubias

Gellert Sandor Mattyus

Ioan Andrei Barsan

Alexandre Doubov

Systems and methods for determining a location based on image data are provided. A method can include receiving, by a computing system, a query image depicting a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The query image can be input into a machine-learned image embedding model and a machine-learned feature extraction model to obtain a query embedding and a query feature representation, respectively. The method can include identifying a subset of candidate embeddings that have embeddings similar to the query embedding. The method can include obtaining a respective feature representation for each image associated with the subset of candidate embeddings. The method can include determining a set of relative displacements between each image associated with the subset of candidate embeddings and the query image and determining a localized state of a vehicle based at least in part on the set of relative displacements.

Image based localization system

A computer-implemented method for localizing a vehicle can include accessing, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, a machine-learned retrieval model that has been trained using a ground truth dataset comprising a plurality of pre-localized sensor observations. Each of the plurality of pre-localized sensor observations has a predetermined pose value associated with a previously obtained sensor reading representation. The method also includes obtaining, by the computing system, a current sensor reading representation obtained by one or more sensors located at the vehicle. The method also includes inputting, by the computing system, the current sensor reading representation into the machine-learned retrieval model. The method also includes receiving, by the computing system and from the machine-learned retrieval model, a determined current pose value for the vehicle based at least in part on one or more of the pre-localized sensor observations determined to be a closest match to the current sensor reading representation. The determined current pose value has an accuracy of within about one meter.

Localization with diverse dataset for autonomous vehicles

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