Ultrasonic data augmentation for autonomous systems and applications

Abstract

In various examples, ultrasonic data augmentations for autonomous and/or semi-autonomous systems and applications are described herein. Systems and methods described herein may use sensor data generated using one or more ultrasonic sensors to generate augmented input data for training one or more machine learning models to generate one or more representations (e.g., one or more maps) of an environment. As described herein, the sensor data may be augmented using one or more techniques such that the augmented input data corresponds to various driving environments (e.g., different driving surfaces), various poses on machines (e.g., different locations and/or orientations), and/or includes additional information associated with the ultrasonic sensor(s) and/or the sensor data. The systems and methods described herein may further use a new architecture to generate input data for the machine learning model(s), where the input data better represents the environment surrounding a machine executing the machine learning model(s).