Valeo Schalter Und Sensoren Gmbh

Connaught Electronics Limited

Lihao Wang

Damien Bouges

Peter Groth

Rachid Benmokhtar

Thomas Heitzmann

Xinhua Xiao

Christel Leonet

Antonyo Musabini

He Huang

A system for creating online vectorized maps for autonomous vehicles includes an image sensor and an electronic control unit (ECU). The image sensor captures a series of image frames. The ECU includes a memory, a central processing unit (CPU), and a transceiver. The memory stores a semantic segmentation deep learning model and a vectorization post-processing module as computer readable code. The CPU executes the semantic segmentation deep learning model and the vectorization post-processing module to output a vectorized map of an external environment of a vehicle. The transceiver uploads the vectorized map to a server such that the vectorized map can be accessed by a second vehicle that uses the vectorized map to traverse the external environment.

Method to create online vectorized maps for autonomous vehicles

A method that includes obtaining a first image from a first camera disposed on a vehicle and generating a birds-eye view (BEV) image using the first image. The method further includes processing, with a machine-learned model, the BEV image to produce parking slot prediction data. The parking slot prediction data includes a first center coordinate for a first available parking slot, a first parking slot confidence, and a first corner displacement data. The first corner displacement data includes a first relative coordinate pair that locates a first corner relative to the first center coordinate and a second relative coordinate pair that locates a second corner relative to the first center coordinate. The method further includes determining a first location of the first available parking slot using the parking slot prediction data and parking the vehicle in the first available parking slot when the first parking slot confidence meets a threshold.

Parking space detection method and system

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Lihao Wang