Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Object velocity from images
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Application No.: US16408195Application Date: 2019-05-09
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Publication No.: US10832418B1Publication Date: 2020-11-10
- Inventor: Vasiliy Karasev , Sarah Tariq
- Applicant: Zoox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Foster City
- Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Foster City
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/262 ; G06T7/50 ; G06T3/00

Abstract:
Techniques are discussed for determining a velocity of an object in an environment from a sequence of images (e.g., two or more). A first image of the sequence is transformed to align the object with an image center. Additional images in the sequence are transformed by the same amount to form a sequence of transformed images. Such sequence is input into a machine learned model trained to output a scaled velocity of the object (a relative object velocity (ROV)) according to the transformed coordinate system. The ROV is then converted to the camera coordinate system by applying an inverse of the transformation. Using a depth associated with the object and the ROV of the object in the camera coordinate frame, an actual velocity of the object in the environment is determined relative to the camera.
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