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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2023
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jieru Mei, Baltimore, MD (US);
Hang Yan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Liang-Chieh Chen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Siyuan Qiao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yukun Zhu, Shoreline, WA (US);
Alex Zihao Zhu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xinchen Yan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Henrik Kretzschmar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a panoptic segmentation label for a sensor data sample. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to obtain a sensor data sample characterizing a scene in an environment. The one or more computers obtain a 3D bounding box annotation at each time point for a point cloud characterizing the scene at the time point. The one or more computers obtain, for each camera image and each time point, annotation data identifying object instances depicted in the camera image, and the one or more computers generate a panoptic segmentation label for the sensor data sample characterizing the scene in the environment.