Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Vahid Taimouri

Gintaras Vincent Puskorius

Mostafa Parchami

Bryan Roger Goodman

Kyoung Min Lee

Michel Cordonnier

Vehicles can be equipped to operate in both autonomous and occupant piloted mode. While operating in either mode, an array of sensors can be used to pilot the vehicle including stereo cameras and 3D sensors. Stereo camera and 3D sensors can also be employed to assist occupants while piloting vehicles. Deep convolutional neural networks can be employed to determine estimated depth maps from stereo images of scenes in real time for vehicles in autonomous and occupant piloted modes.

Depth map estimation with stereo images

A system, comprising a processor, and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to acquire the images of the vehicle environment, determine a cognitive map, which includes a top-down view of the vehicle environment, based on the image, and operate the vehicle based on the cognitive map.

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