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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2018
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Clayton Kunz, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Christian Lauterbach, Campbell, CA (US);
Roshni Cooper, Cupertino, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting spurious objects. For instance, a model may be trained using raining data including a plurality of LIDAR data points generated by a LIDAR sensor of a vehicle. Each given LIDAR data point includes location information and intensity information, and is associated with waveform data for that given LIDAR data point. At least one of the plurality of LIDAR data points is further associated with a label identifying spurious objects through which the vehicle is able to drive. The model and/or a plurality of heuristics may then be provided to a vehicle in order to allow the vehicle to determine LIDAR data points that correspond to spurious objects. These LIDAR data points may then be filtered from sensor data, and the filtered sensor data may be used to control the vehicle in an autonomous driving mode.