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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abdelrahman Elogeel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander Pon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Debanjan Nandi, Fremont, CA (US);
Andres Hasfura, San Antonio, TX (US);
Carden Bagwell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marzieh Parandehgheibi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Siddharth Mahendran, Mountain View, CA (US);
Teng Liu, Jersey City, NJ (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for tracking keypoints on an object represented in a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) point cloud. A process of the disclosed technology can include receiving, for each of a plurality of frames in a series, an identification of at least one keypoint on the object represented in LiDAR point clouds and a confidence score for the respective keypoint, wherein each of the plurality of frames includes LiDAR point clouds including the object at different times represented in the series, and determining kinematics for the object from a determined movement of the keypoint across the plurality of frames.