Pony Ai Inc.

Jie Mao

Kevin Sheu

Deling Li

Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for using 3D point cloud data such as that captured by a LiDAR as ground truth data for training an instance segmentation deep learning model. 3D point cloud data captured by a LiDAR can be projected on a 2D image captured by a camera and provided as input to a 2D instance segmentation model. 2D sparse instance segmentation masks may be generated from the 2D image with the projected 3D data points. These 2D sparse masks can be used to propagate loss during training of the model. Generation and use of the 2D image data with the projected 3D data points as well as the 2D sparse instance segmentation masks for training the instance segmentation model obviates the need to generate and use actual instance segmentation data for training, thereby providing an improved technique for training an instance segmentation model.

Instance segmentation using sensor data having different dimensionalities

Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating fused sensor data through metadata association. First sensor data captured by a first vehicle sensor and second sensor data captured by a second vehicle sensor are associated with first metadata and second metadata, respectively, to obtain labeled first sensor data and labeled second sensor data. A frame synchronization is performed between the first sensor data and the second sensor data to obtain a set of synchronized frames, where each synchronized frame includes a portion of the first sensor data and a corresponding portion of the second sensor data. For each frame in the set of synchronized frames, a metadata association algorithm is executed on the labeled first sensor data and the labeled second sensor data to generate fused sensor data that identifies associations between the first metadata and the second metadata.

Generating fused sensor data through metadata association

A system trains a model to infer an intent of an entity. The model includes one or more sensors to obtain frames of data, one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform steps. A first step includes determining, in each frame of the frames, one or more bounding regions, each of the bounding regions enclosing an entity. A second step includes identifying a common entity, the common entity being present in bounding regions corresponding to a plurality of the frames. A third step includes associating the common entity across the frames. A fourth step includes training a model to infer an intent of the common entity based on data outside of the bounding regions.

Growing community of inventors

Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Jie Mao