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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2023
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Ho, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alper Ayvaci, San Jose, CA (US);
Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jiakai Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed systems and techniques facilitate efficient detection and classification of traffic signs in driving environments. The disclosed techniques include, obtaining, using a sensing system of a vehicle a first set of perspective camera images of an environment and a second set of radar images of the environment. The techniques further include generating, using a first neural network, one or more camera features characterizing the first set of images, generating, using a second neural network, one or more radar features characterizing the second set of images, and processing the one or more camera features and the one or more radar features to obtain an identification of one or more traffic signs in the environment.