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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2021
Five Ai Limited, Bristol, GB;
Five AI Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A method of annotating known objects in road images captured from a sensor-equipped vehicle, the method implemented in an annotation system and comprising: receiving at the annotation system a road image containing a view of a known object; receiving ego localization data, as computed in a map frame of reference, via localization applied to sensor data captured by the sensor-equipped vehicle, the ego localization data indicating an image capture pose of the road image in the map frame of reference; determining, from a predetermined road map, an object location of the known object in the map frame of reference, the predetermined road map representing a road layout the map frame of reference, wherein the known object is one of: a piece of road structure, and an object on or adjacent a road; computing, in an image plane defined by the image capture pose, an object projection, by projecting an object model of the known object from the object location into the image plane; and storing, in an image database, image data of the road image, in association with annotation data of the object projection for annotating the image data with a location of the known object in the image plane.