Patent ID: 11922708
Assignee: UATC, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A method comprising:
receiving sensor data descriptive of an environment of an autonomous vehicle;
determining in a first stage of a multiple stage classification, one or more first stage characteristics of the sensor data based in part on a first machine-learned model, wherein the first stage characteristics are determined by the first machine-learned model with a first level of confidence;
determining in a second stage of the multiple stage classification, one or more second stage characteristics of the sensor data based in part on a second machine-learned model, wherein the second stage characteristics are determined by the second machine-learned model with a second level of confidence that is higher than the first level of confidence; and
generating an object output based in part on the second stage characteristics, the object output indicating detection of one or more objects in the sensor data.