Patent ID: 11966452
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for image-based perception, comprising:
capturing images by a plurality of cameras with overlapping fields of view;
generating, by a computing device, spatial feature maps indicating locations of features in the images;
defining, by the computing device for each image, a predicted cuboid at each location of an object in the image based on the spatial feature map of the image;
identifying, by the computing device for each image, a plurality of visual features of each object in the image using the spatial feature maps;
determining, by the computing device, a value indicating likelihood an object in a first image and an object in a second image are a same object based on the plurality of visual features;
associating, by the computing device, the predicted cuboids for the object in the first image and for the object in the second image with each other as being the same object in response to the value being greater than a selected threshold; and
tracking, the computing device, the plurality of objects using the predicted cuboids associated with the object.