Ccc Intelligent Solutions Inc.

Steven Penny

Neda Hantehzadeh

Mohan Liu

Masatoshi Kato

Ranjini Vaidyanathan

Bhadresh Dhanani

Bahar Radfar

Srinivasan Krishnaswamy

Daniel Helguera

Mina Haratiannezhadi

Sagar Bachwani

Methods, systems, and techniques for utilizing image processing systems to measure damage to vehicles include utilizing an image processing system to generate a heat map of an image of a damaged vehicle, where the heat map is indicative of a damaged area of the vehicle, and determining at least one measurement of the damaged area based on the heat map and a depth of field indicator corresponding to the image. In some embodiments, the image processing system also determines one or more types of damage of the damaged area, and/or also generates a segmentation map of the depicted vehicle and utilizes the segmentation map in conjunction with the heat map to measure damaged areas and locations thereof on the vehicle depicted within the image. In some embodiments, the techniques include determining the depth of field indicator of the image or portions thereof.

Methods and systems of utilizing image processing systems to measure objects

Techniques for utilizing image processing systems to measure damage to vehicles include utilizing an image processing system to determine, based on a part of the damaged vehicle depicted in an image of the damaged vehicle and a measurement of a corresponding part of an associated undamaged vehicle, a depth of field indicator corresponding to the image. In some situations, the image processing system warps at least a part of the image, and the warped image is utilized to determine the depth of field indicator. The techniques additionally include measuring a damaged area of the vehicle based on the depth of field indicator and a heat map that has been generated based on the image and that is indicative of damaged areas of the vehicle. In some cases, measuring the damaged area is further based on a segmentation map generated based on the image.

Methods, systems, and techniques for utilizing image processing systems to measure objects, such as vehicles and damage to vehicles, include determining locations of waypoints within a source image of the object, reshaping a minimum area polygon that is defined by the waypoint locations to cover at least a portion of the depicted object within the image so that the reshaped at least a portion has an essentially uniform depth of field, and determining a warping transformation based on the reshaping. The methods, systems, and techniques further include applying the warping transformation to at least a portion of the source image to generate a warped image, and utilizing the warped image to measure areas of damage on the depicted object and the respective locations of the damaged areas, e.g., in conjunction with heat map and/or segmentation map of the source image, which may have been warped using the transformation.

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