Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Carnegie Mellon University

Patrick Tague

Yu Seung Kim

Thanh Le Nguyen

Jun Han

Joy Zhang

A system includes, in one aspect, one or more processing devices that perform operations comprising: detecting one or more human objects in images captured by a visual image recording device; obtaining a motion timeseries for each of the detected one or more human objects using the captured images; obtaining a received signal strength (RSS) timeseries for each of the one or more mobile devices, based on received RF signals from the one or more mobile devices; and generating an association between (i) identifying data for a first mobile device of the one or more mobile devices, and (ii) identifying data for one of the one or more human objects representing a first human, wherein the first mobile device has an RSS timeseries that fluctuates at a time period corresponding to movement in the obtained motion timeseries for the one of the one or more human objects representing the first human.

Associating a user identity with a mobile device identity

Authentication of vehicles in preparation for V2V communication includes vehicle A taking a picture of vehicle B (V) and vehicle B taking a picture of vehicle A (V). These pictures are then shared. Vehicle A determines the relative location of vehicle B indicated in Vand V. If they agree, then vehicle A and B authenticate one another, such as using Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Identifying vehicle A and vehicle B in the pictures may include identifying the license plates of vehicle A and vehicle B in the pictures. Vehicles A and B may exchange license plate numbers prior to taking of the pictures. Image spoofing may be prevented by taking both forward and rearward facing pictures by both vehicles. Objects in pictures facing the same direction may be identified to verify that the pictures were taken nearly simultaneously.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Patrick Tague