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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2023
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexandra Carlson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nikita Jaipuria, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Punarjay Chakravarty, Campbell, CA (US);
Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Ramanarayan Vasudevan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Katherine Skinner, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to jointly train a geometric NeRF multilayer perceptron (MLP) and a color NeRF MLP to model a scene using an occupancy grid map, camera data of the scene from a camera, and lidar data of the scene from a lidar; supervise the geometric NeRF MLP with the lidar data during the joint training; and supervise the color NeRF MLP with the camera data during the joint training. The geometric NeRF MLP is a neural radiance field modeling a geometry of the scene, and the color NeRF MLP is a neural radiance field modeling colors of the scene.