Apollo Intelligent Driving Technology (beijing) Co., Ltd.

Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.

Apollo Intelligent Connectivity (beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.

Xiaoxing Zhu

Fan Yang

Shuang Zhang

Bin Gao

Chengfa Wang

Jingjing Xue

Junping Wang

Yongyi Sun

Shiyu Song

Zhijie Wang

The present disclosure provides a method and system for processing an obstacle detection result of an ultrasonic sensor array. The method comprises: obtaining obstacle coordinates collected by ultrasonic sensors in an ultrasonic sensor array; inputting the obstacle coordinates collected by ultrasonic sensors in the ultrasonic sensor array into a pre-trained neural network model, to obtain true or false labels for the obstacle coordinates collected by the ultrasonic sensors output by the pre-trained neural network model; process the obstacle coordinates collected by the ultrasonic sensors in the ultrasonic sensor array according to the true or false labels. The present disclosure improves the accuracy in the obstacle detection of the ultrasonic sensor array, avoids detection error and omission and improves the driving safety.

Method and system for processing obstacle detection result of ultrasonic sensor array

The present disclosure provides an ultrasonic radar array, an obstacle detection method and system. The method includes: obtaining obstacle information collected by ultrasonic radars in an ultrasonic radar array in an obstacle scenario; judging false detection and missed detection for the obstacle information collected by ultrasonic radars according a preset rule; processing the obstacle information collected by the ultrasonic radars according to the judgement result; determining a position of the obstacle according to the processed obstacle information collected by the ultrasonic radars.

Ultrasonic radar array, and obstacle detection method and system

A method, including: acquiring a point cloud frame including point cloud data of a pedestrian; projecting the point cloud data of the pedestrian to a ground coordinate system to obtain projection point data of the pedestrian; determining a direction of a connection line between the two shoulders of the pedestrian, based on a location distribution of the projection point data; extracting a point cloud of a stable region from the point cloud data of the pedestrian based on the direction of the connection line between the two shoulders of the pedestrian, a form change range of the stable region when the pedestrian moves being smaller than form change ranges of other regions of the pedestrian; and determining movement information of the pedestrian based on a coordinate of a center point of the point cloud of the stable region in a plurality of consecutive point cloud frames.

Method and apparatus for detecting pedestrian

A method and apparatus for calibrating a camera are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring an image-point cloud sequence, the image-point cloud sequence including at least one group of an initial image and point cloud data collected at a same time, the initial image being collected by a camera provided on an autonomous vehicle and the point cloud data being collected by a radar provided on the autonomous vehicle; determining target point cloud data of initial images corresponding to groups of image-point cloud in the image-point cloud sequence; and matching the target point cloud data with the corresponding initial images in the image-point cloud sequence to determine a correction parameter of the camera.

Method and apparatus for calibrating camera

A method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle is disclosed. The method may include: determining center points of at least two frames of point clouds collected for an identified obstacle during travelling of the vehicle; performing curve fitting based on the determined center points to obtain a fitted curve; determining a moving velocity of the obstacle based on the fitted curve; predicting whether the vehicle is to be collided with the obstacle when the vehicle continues travelling at a current velocity, based on the moving velocity of the obstacle, the traveling velocity of the vehicle, and a distance between the obstacle and the vehicle; and sending control information to the vehicle, in response to predicting that the vehicle is to be collided with the obstacle when the vehicle continues travelling at the current velocity, the control information being used to control the vehicle to avoid collision with the obstacle.

Method and apparatus for controlling vehicle

The present application provides a method for detecting map error information, an apparatus, a device, a vehicle and a storage medium, where the method includes: acquiring current environmental feature information around a vehicle; and detecting, according to the current environmental feature information and map data, whether the map data is erroneous. Whether the map data is erroneous is detected in real time based on the current environmental feature information during the process of the actual traveling of the vehicle, which improves timeliness and efficiency for the map error detection, thereby the map data can be corrected in time and the traveling safety of the vehicle may be improved.

Method for detecting map error information, apparatus, device, vehicle and storage medium

The present application provides a self-driving vehicle positioning method, an apparatus and a storage medium, where the method includes: obtaining reference data, where the reference data includes: state information and running path information of at least one traffic participant within a preset distance from a self-driving vehicle, and updating positioning information of the self-driving vehicle according to the reference data. In the technical solutions, when a GPS signal is weak, the self-driving vehicle can also update the positioning information in time, thereby ensuring driving safety of the self-driving vehicle, and solving a driving safety problem existing in the self-driving vehicle of the prior art.

Self-driving vehicle positioning method, apparatus and storage medium

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for outputting information and calibrating a camera. The method may include: acquiring a first image, a second image, and a third image, the first image being an image photographed by a to-be-calibrated camera, the second image being a high-precision map image including a target area indicated by the first image, and the third image being a reflectance image including the target area; fusing the second image and the third image to obtain a fused image; determining a matching point pair based on points selected by a user in the first image and the fused image; and calibrating the to-be-calibrated camera based on coordinates of the matching point pair.

Methods and apparatuses for outputting information and calibrating camera

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for detecting an obstacle. The method may include: acquiring first point cloud data collected by a first vehicle-mounted laser radar and second point cloud data collected by a second vehicle-mounted laser radar, where a height of the first vehicle-mounted laser radar from a ground is greater than a height of the second vehicle-mounted laser radar from the ground, and a number of wiring harnesses of the first vehicle-mounted laser radar is greater than a number of wiring harnesses of the second vehicle-mounted laser radar; performing ground estimation based on the first point cloud data; filtering out a ground point in the second point cloud data according to the ground estimation result of the first point cloud data; and performing obstacle detection based on the second point cloud data after the ground point is filtered out.

Method and apparatus for detecting obstacle

A method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium for monitoring an image acquisition device are provided, which are related to a field of computer vision technology. The method for monitoring the image acquisition device includes: determining a stop position of each target vehicle from a first video image acquired by the image acquisition device; determining a marking line in the first video image according to the stop positions of their respective target vehicles, and determining a deviation amount of the marking line in the first video image from a reference making line, and determining that the image acquisition device has deviated in a case that the deviation amount reaches a predetermined condition. The workload of manual detection is reduced, and the accuracy of deviation amount monitoring is increased by comparing the marking line with the reference marking line.

Method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium for monitoring an image acquisition device

A method and apparatus for processing information are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: identifying at least one obstacle from a point cloud collected by a lidar during a traveling process of a vehicle; for an obstacle in the at least one obstacle, determining an appearance rate of the obstacle within a life cycle corresponding to the obstacle; determining a confidence degree of a grid region of at least one grid region based on appearance rates of obstacles in the at least one obstacle; determining a target grid region from the at least one grid region based on the confidence degree, and determining whether an obstacle detected in the target grid region is an obstacle detected for a first time; and if yes, filtering out a point cloud corresponding to the obstacle detected in the target grid region for the first time.

Method and apparatus for processing information

A method and apparatus for detecting and tracking a target, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: cameras, detection modules, tracking modules and storage queues are provided in advance; the numbers of cameras, storage queues and tracking modules are equal, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between the cameras and the storage queues and between the cameras and the tracking modules; distributing data streams collected by the cameras to the plurality of detection modules; detecting, by the detection modules, the received data streams, and sending detection results of the data streams collected by the cameras, to the storage queues corresponding to the cameras; and extracting, by the tracking modules corresponding to the cameras, the detection results from the storage queues corresponding to the cameras, and using the detection results for tracking the target.

Method and apparatus for detecting and tracking target, electronic device and storage media

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for detecting ground point cloud points. The method may include: determining a segmentation plane and a ground based on a point cloud collected by a lidar; segmenting the point cloud into a first sub point cloud and a second sub point cloud based on the segmentation plane; and determining the point cloud points whose distances from the ground are smaller than a first distance threshold in the first sub point cloud as ground point cloud points, and determining the point cloud points whose distances from the ground are smaller than a second distance threshold in the second sub point cloud as the ground point cloud points, where the first distance threshold is smaller than the second distance threshold.

Method and apparatus for detecting ground point cloud points

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for outputting information. The method may include: acquiring point cloud data and image data collected by a vehicle during a driving process; determining a plurality of time thresholds based on a preset time threshold value range; executing following processing for each time threshold: identifying obstacles included in each point cloud frame and each image frame respectively; determining a similarity between the obstacles; determining, in response to the similarity being greater than a preset similarity threshold, whether a time interval between the point cloud frame and the image frame corresponding to two similar obstacles is less than the time threshold; and processing recognized obstacles based on a determining result, to determine the number of obstacles; and determining, based on a plurality of numbers, and outputting a target time threshold.

Method and apparatus for outputting information

The present disclosure provides a vehicle control method, including: acquiring current driving information of a vehicle; determining, according to the current driving information and a preset risk map, whether the vehicle drives to a risky road segment; and controlling a driving state of the vehicle accordingly when it is determined that the vehicle drives to the risky road segment. By presetting a risk map, defining road and roadside risky areas in the map, defining risky road segments of roads according to the road and roadside risky areas, determining in real time, whether the vehicle drives to a risky road segment, and controlling a driving state of the vehicle when it is determined that the vehicle drives to the risky road segment, so as to avoid risks that the risky areas cause to the driving of the vehicle, the driving safety of the vehicle can be effectively improved.

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Xiaoxing Zhu