Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Argo Ai Gmbh

Neetu Agarwal

Richard L Kwant

Ravi Basavaraj

Systems and methods are provided for operating a vehicle, is provided. The method includes, by a vehicle control system of the vehicle, identifying map data for a present location of the vehicle using a location of the vehicle and pose and trajectory data for the vehicle, identifying a field of view of a camera of the vehicle, and analyzing the map data to identify an object that is expected to be in the field of view of the camera. The method further includes, based on (a) a class of the object, (b) characteristics of a region of interest in the field of view of the vehicle, or (c) both, selecting an automatic exposure (AE) setting for the camera. The method additionally includes causing the camera to use the AE setting when capturing images of the object, and using the camera, capturing the images of the object.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Neetu Agarwal