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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2023
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
James Philbin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vasiliy Igorevich Karasev, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alper Ayvaci, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Wimmershoff, Redwood City, CA (US);
Dragomir Dimitrov Anguelov, San Carlos, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The described aspects and implementations enable efficient object detection and tracking. In one implementation, disclosed is a method and a system to perform the method, the system including the sensing system configured to obtain sensing data characterizing an environment of the vehicle. The system further includes a data processing system operatively coupled to the sensing system and configured to process the sensing data using a first (second) set of neural network (NN) layers to obtain a first (second) set of features for a first (second) region of the environment, the first (second) set of features is associated with a first (second) spatial resolution. The data processing system is further to process the two sets of features using a second set of NN layers to detect a location of object(s) in the environment of the vehicle and a state of motion of the object(s).