Patent ID: 11915488
Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY US, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A localization and mapping system for a motor vehicle comprising:
at least one camera configured to obtain images of an environment surrounding the motor vehicle;
at least one sensor configured to obtain location information for objects surrounding the motor vehicle; and
a controller, comprising at least one processor circuit and memory coupled to the at least one processor circuit, configured to receive the images captured by the at least one camera and the location information obtained by the at least one sensor, enhance the captured images utilizing a neural network model to produce enhanced images, combine the enhanced images with the location information and localize the vehicle based on the combined enhanced images and location information, and perform at least one autonomous or semi-autonomous function based in part upon the vehicle localization,
wherein the controller is further configured to apply a weighting factor to a loss function applied to a sequence of the captured images for enhancing the captured images, the weighting factor being applied to a pixel-wise mean squared error loss for enhancing the captured images.