Patent Document ID: 8488877
Application ID: 12592836

Base Claim:
1. A system for object recognition in colorized point clouds, comprising one or more processors that include: an implicit geometry engine, the implicit geometry engine configured to receive three-dimensional (3D) colorized point cloud data regarding a 3D object of interest, to convert the point cloud data into implicit representations, and to generate geometric features; a geometric grammar block, the geometric grammar block configured to generate object cues and recognize geometric objects using geometric tokens and finite state machines; a visual attention cueing block, the visual attention cueing block configured to generate object cues based on two-dimensional (2D) visually salient properties; an object recognition block, the object recognition block being configured to perform a local search for objects using cues from the cueing block and the geometric grammar block and to classify the 3D object of interest as a particular object upon a classifier reaching a predetermined threshold.

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Claim 7:
7. A system as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the implicit geometry engine is further configured to receive the 3D colorized point cloud data and process the 3D colorized point cloud data along separate 2D and 3D pathways, such that in the 3D pathway, the 3D colorized point cloud data is converted into implicit representations, while in the 2D pathway, color information in the 3D colorized cloud point, data is projected into 2D representations for cueing and recognition of potential objects.