Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Continental Automotive France

Aumovio Autonomous Mobility Germany Gmbh

Thibault Caron

Boris Lugez

Sophie Rony

Alexandre Bourdeu

Bertrand Godreau

Bilal Hijazi

A method for implementing a LIDAR device in a motor vehicle, including the following steps: determining the number of bright nearby points of the point cloud, a bright nearby point being defined as a point that meets the following two conditions: the distance of separation corresponding to the point is less than a first predetermined distance threshold; and the light intensity corresponding to the point is higher than a first predetermined light intensity threshold; when the number of bright nearby points is higher than a predetermined crosstalk filtering activation threshold, identifying each crosstalk-related point that meets the following two conditions: the distance of separation corresponding to the point is less than a second predetermined distance threshold; and the light intensity corresponding to the point is lower than a second predetermined brightness threshold.

Method for implementing a light detection and ranging LIDAR device in a motor vehicle

A method for processing data provided by a lidar. Obtaining, for measurement points of a lidar, data representative of a diffuse intensity and a distance between the measurement point and the lidar; determining an angle of incidence of the lidar at each measurement point; calculating, for each measurement point, reflectivity from the angle of incidence, the distance and the diffuse intensity; identifying spatially adjacent measurement points having a reflectivity within a given range of values to form common reflectivity zones; defining a cost function for at least one common reflectivity zone, the cost function including a first diffuse intensity and a second diffuse intensity, the angle and the distance of the measurement point in question; minimizing the cost function in order to update at least one of the angle, the distance and the reflectivity at the measurement point, for each of the measurement points belonging to a common reflectivity zone.

Method for processing data provided by a lidar and associated computer

A method for detecting false positives relating to a traffic light based on a video stream of images captured by a camera on board a motor vehicle, the traffic light being configured so as to switch between a plurality of states, each state being characterized by at least one colored zone representative of a signal. The method includes filtering the images, using a predetermined list of filtering criteria relating to the states of the traffic light, based on a predetermined history of the color of the pixels of the colored zone representing a luminous object detected in the video stream of images so as to detect false positives.

Method for detecting false positives relating to a traffic light

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Toulouse, France

Thibault Caron