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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2020
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Hayder Radha, East Lansing, MI (US);
Mazin Hnewa, East Lansing, MI (US);
Jon Diedrich, Carleton, MI (US);
Mark Gehrke, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Advanced automotive active-safety systems, in general, and autonomous vehicles, in particular, rely heavily on visual data to classify and localize objects, most notably pedestrians and other nearby cars, to assist the corresponding vehicles maneuver safely in their environment. However, the performance of object detection methods is anticipated to degrade under challenging rainy conditions. Nevertheless, and despite major advancements in the development of deraining approaches, the impact of rain on object detection has largely been understudied, especially in the context of autonomous systems. This disclosure analyzes this problem space and presents an improved system for detecting objects under rainy conditions.