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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2022
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Vitor Guizilini, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jie Li, Los Altos, CA (US);
Charles Christopher Ochoa, San Francisco, CA (US);
TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., Los Altos, CA (US);
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for depth estimation from monocular images using a depth model with sparse range sensor data and uncertainty in the range sensor as inputs thereto. According to some embodiments, the methods and systems comprise receiving an image captured by an image sensor, where the image represents a scene of an environment. The method and systems also comprise deriving a point cloud representative of the scene of the environment from range sensor data, and deriving range sensor uncertainty from the range sensor data. Then a depth map can be derived for the image based on the point cloud and the range sensor uncertainty as one or more inputs into a depth model.