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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2015
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Vidya Nariyambut Murali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sneha Kadetotad, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel Levine, San Mateo, CA (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices for sensor fusion are disclosed herein. A system for sensor fusion includes one or more sensors, a model component, and an inference component. The model component is configured to calculate values in a joint-probabilistic graphical model based on the sensor data. The graphical model includes nodes corresponding to random variables and edges indicating correlations between the nodes. The inference component is configured to detect and track obstacles near a vehicle based on the sensor data and the model using a weighted-integrals-and-sums-by-hashing (WISH) algorithm.