Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semantic labeling of point clouds using images
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Application No.: US16869093Application Date: 2020-05-07
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Publication No.: US10936908B1Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Huy Tho Ho , Jingwei Wang , Kjell Fredrik Larsson
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06K9/62
- IPC: G06K9/62 ; G06T7/11 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods for semantic labeling of point clouds using images. Some implementations may include obtaining a point cloud that is based on lidar data reflecting one or more objects in a space; obtaining an image that includes a view of at least one of the one or more objects in the space; determining a projection of points from the point cloud onto the image; generating, using the projection, an augmented image that includes one or more channels of data from the point cloud and one or more channels of data from the image; inputting the augmented image to a two dimensional convolutional neural network to obtain a semantic labeled image wherein elements of the semantic labeled image include respective predictions; and mapping, by reversing the projection, predictions of the semantic labeled image to respective points of the point cloud to obtain a semantic labeled point cloud.
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