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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Sarah Houts, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Praveen Narayanan, San Jose, CA (US);
Punarjay Chakravarty, Campbell, CA (US);
Gaurav Pandey, Foster City, CA (US);
Graham Mills, Oakland, CA (US);
Tyler Reid, Menlo Park, CA (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Example localization systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives a camera image from a vehicle camera and cleans the camera image using a VAE-GAN (variational autoencoder combined with a generative adversarial network) algorithm. The method further receives a vector map related to an area proximate the vehicle and generates a synthetic image based on the vector map. The method then localizes the vehicle based on the cleaned camera image and the synthetic image.