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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
May. 30, 2024
Nodar Inc., Somerville, MA (US);
Vikram Shree, Cambridge, MA (US);
Leaf Alden Jiang, Concord, MA (US);
Piotr Swierczynski, Berlin, DE;
NODAR Inc., Somerville, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting and tracking objects includes (a) obtaining point-cloud data captured by camera sensors on a vehicle travelling along a road surface, (b) compressing the point-cloud data to bird's-eye-view (BEV) data representing a view along a BEV direction oriented approximately perpendicular to the road surface, the BEV data representing the objects on a BEV plane oriented approximately parallel the road surface, (c) establishing a grid of cells for the BEV plane, (d) for each cell, determining occupancy values of the cell for a time tand performing noise reduction by assigning weights to the cell based on predicted occupancy values of the cell for the time tand on occupancy values of the cell for a previous time t, and (e) outputting to a controller of the vehicle, in real time or nearly real time, an occupancy evidence map of objects in the vehicle's environment.