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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2023
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alex Zihao Zhu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vincent Michael Casser, Cambridge, MA (US);
Henrik Kretzschmar, Neu-Ulm, DE;
Reza Mahjourian, Austin, TX (US);
Soeren Pirk, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing inputs that include video frames using neural networks. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to obtain a set of one or more training images and, for each training image, ground truth instance data that identifies, for each of one or more object instances, a corresponding region of the training image that depicts the object instance. For each training image in the set, the one or more computers process the training image using an instance segmentation neural network to generate an embedding output comprising a respective embedding for each of a plurality of output pixels. The one or more computers then train the instance segmentation neural network to minimize a loss function.