Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging and radar fusion for multiple-object tracking
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Application No.: US17149588Application Date: 2021-01-14
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Publication No.: US11774582B2Publication Date: 2023-10-03
- Inventor: Sanling Song , Yang Zheng , Izzat H. Izzat
- Applicant: Aptiv Technologies Limited
- Applicant Address: BB St. Michael
- Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
- Current Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
- Current Assignee Address: BB St. Michael
- Agency: Sawtooth Patent Group PLLC
- Main IPC: G01S13/89
- IPC: G01S13/89 ; G01S7/41 ; G01S13/72 ; G01S13/86 ; G01S13/931 ; G06V10/764 ; G06V10/80 ; G06V10/82 ; G06V20/58

Abstract:
This document describes methods and systems directed at imaging sensor and radar fusion for multiple-object tracking. Using tracking-by-detection, an object is first detected in a frame captured by an imaging sensor, and then the object is tracked over several consecutive frames by both the imaging sensor and a radar system. The object is tracked by assigning a probability that the object identified in one frame is a same object identified in the consecutive frame. A probability is calculated for each data set captured by a sensor by a supervised-learning neural-network model using the data collected from the sensors. Then, the probabilities associated with each sensor are fused into a refined probability. By fusing the data gathered by the imaging sensor and the radar system in the consecutive frames, a safety system can track multiple objects more accurately and reliably than using the sensor data separately to track objects.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210231794A1 Imaging and Radar Fusion for Multiple-Object Tracking Public/Granted day:2021-07-29
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