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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2020
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Lorenzo Peppoloni, London, GB;
Michal Witkowski, London, GB;
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) receive a sequence of images captured by a camera associated with a vehicle, (ii) for each of at least a subset of the received images in which a given agent is detected, (a) generate a respective pixel mask that identifies a boundary of the given agent within the image, (b) identify, as a tracking point for the given agent within the image, at least one given pixel within the pixel mask that is representative of an estimated intersection point between the given agent and a ground plane, and (c) determine a position of the given agent at the capture time of the image based on the tracking point and information regarding the ground plane, and (iii) determine a trajectory for the given agent based on the determined positions of the given agent.