Abstract: A localization system includes a first sensor, configured to detect a vibration and generate a first electrical signal in response to the detection of the vibration; a second sensor, configured to detect a vibration and generate a second electrical signal in response to the detection of the vibration; a third sensor, configured to detect a vibration and generate a third electrical signal in response to the detection of the vibration; and a processor, configured to determine a position of a source of the vibration based on the first electrical signal, the second electrical signal, and the third electrical signal.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve spatial-temporal data management. An example apparatus includes a hypervoxel data structure generator to generate a root hexatree data structure having sixteen hypernodes, an octree manager to improve a spatiotemporal data access efficiency by generating a first degree of symmetry in the root hexatree, the octree manager to assign a first portion of the hypernodes to a positive temporal subspace and to assign a second portion of the hypernodes to a negative temporal subspace, and a quadtree manager to improve the spatiotemporal data access efficiency by generating a second degree of symmetry in the root hexatree, the quadtree manager to assign respective hypernodes of the positive temporal subspace and the negative temporal subspace to respective positive and negative spatial subspaces.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for origination camera technology that extracts data from multimodal sensor signals associated with a scene and generates a five-dimensional (5D) representation of the scene, wherein the 5D representation includes a three-dimensional (3D) visual representation, a one-dimensional (1D) temporal representation, and a 1D branch representation. The technology may also store the 5D representation as a set of abstract descriptors.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing an enhanced occupant collision safety system in a vehicle are described herein. A system for controlling deployment of vehicle safety mechanisms of a host vehicle, includes a sensor array interface to receive acceleration data from an impact sensor; an image processor to receive events from an event camera, the event camera configured to monitor a scene of an interior of the host vehicle that includes an occupant; and an occupant safety system controller to: cluster the events to discriminate between events associated with a background of the scene and events associated with a body part of the occupant; detect a collision based on the acceleration data; verify the collision based on the events associated with the background of the scene; and in response to verifying the collision, cause a collision safety mechanism of the host vehicle to deploy.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for object manipulation via action sequence optimization. An example method disclosed herein includes determining an initial state of a scene, generating a first action phase sequence to transform the initial state of the scene to a solution state of the scene by selecting a plurality of action phases based on action phase probabilities, determining whether a first simulated outcome of executing the first action phase sequence satisfies an acceptability criterion and, when the first simulated outcome does not satisfy the acceptability criterion, calculating a first cost function output based on a difference between the first simulated outcome and the solution state of the scene, the first cost function output utilized to generate updated action phase probabilities.

Abstract: An example includes obtaining first sensor data from a first sensor and second sensor data from a second sensor, the first sensor of a first sensor type different than a second sensor type of the second sensor; generating first encoded sensor data based on the first sensor data and second encoded sensor data based on the second sensor data; generating a contextual fused sensor data representation of the first and second sensor data based on the first and second encoded sensor data; generating first and second reconstructed sensor data based on the contextual fused sensor data representation; determining a deviation estimation based on the first and second reconstructed sensor data, the deviation estimation representative of a deviation between: (a) the first reconstructed sensor data, and (b) the first sensor data; and detecting an anomaly in the deviation estimation, the anomaly indicative of an error associated with the first sensor.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing intelligent traffic management for vehicle platoons are described herein. A road controller system includes A road controller system comprising: a data store to store an active traffic policy; a processor subsystem to: determine a speed or platoon size of a vehicle platoon traveling on an area controlled by the road controller system; and determine a change to the speed or platoon size of the vehicle platoon, the change based on the active traffic policy; and a transceiver to transmit a control message to the vehicle platoon to implement the change to the speed or platoon size of the vehicle platoon.

Abstract: Devices and methods for a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. A device for controlling an active seat of a vehicle may include a processor and a memory. The memory may be configured to store a transfer function. The processor may be configured to predict an acceleration of the active seat of the vehicle based on a first sensor data and the transfer function. The first sensor data may include information indicating an acceleration of a vibration source for the vehicle. The processor may be further configured to generate a control signal to control a movement of the active seat at a first instance of time based on the predicted acceleration.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) system may include a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon. The AV system may include a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to read and execute the computer-readable instructions to perform or control performance of operations. The operations may include receive an instruction text vector representative of a command for an AV provided by a user. The operations may include receive an environment text vector representative of a spatio-temporal feature of an environment of the AV. The operations may include generate a sense set that includes words based on the instruction text vector and the environment text vector. The operations may include compare the words of the sense set to navigational instructions (NIs) within a corpus and identify a NI that corresponds to the words based on the comparison. The operations may also include update a trajectory of the AV based on the NI.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to realize a self-adaptive multiresolution digital plate (SAMDP) system that facilitates sharing of vehicle state information via a dynamically generated binary two-dimensional multispectral pattern. The binary 2D multispectral pattern adjusts its resolution to adapt to the visual perception process while communicating vehicle state information without relying on wireless communications (i.e. V2V, V2X, etc.). The techniques as described herein leverage the use of a multichannel spectral means that helps lower the error present in sensing and representation models used by automated driving systems.

Abstract: A human-robot collaboration system, including at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: predict a human atomic action based on a probability density function of possible human atomic actions for performing a predefined task; and plan a motion of the robot based on the predicted human atomic action.

Abstract: A robotic manipulation planning system, including at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: process perception data to detect known, familiar, and unknown objects to generate manipulation candidates; filter manipulation candidates against constraints to reduce the manipulation candidates; and determine quality metrics for the reduced manipulation candidates using a soft-body simulation technique.

Abstract: Estimating a head pose may include obtaining sensor data corresponding to a head and at least a portion of the body of a human subject and determining an estimate of a three-dimensional (3D) body pose using the obtained sensor data. The estimation can further include generating a first rendering of at least the human subject's head using the obtained sensor data and generating a plurality of head pose sample data sets by applying the estimated 3D body pose to a head-pose generative model. Further, the head pose estimation can include generating a plurality of second renderings respectively from each of the plurality of head pose sample data sets; determining which of the plurality of second renderings is closest to the first rendering; and selecting the second rendering determined to be closest to the first rendering.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for implementing intelligent traffic management for vehicle platoons are described herein. A road controller system includes A road controller system comprising: a data store to store an active traffic policy; a processor subsystem to: determine a speed or platoon size of a vehicle platoon traveling on an area controlled by the road controller system; and determine a change to the speed or platoon size of the vehicle platoon, the change based on the active traffic policy; and a transceiver to transmit a control message to the vehicle platoon to implement the change to the speed or platoon size of the vehicle platoon.

Abstract: Technologies for management of data layers in a heterogeneous geographic information system (GIS) map are disclosed. A compute device may maintain a GIS database that includes geo-quads that represent physical locations of various scales. Data layers and layer tracks may be dynamically added to the GIS database at different scales, allowing for an extensible framework that enables a mechanism for integrating additional functionality. In the illustrative embodiment, a graph database is used to store the GIS database, allowing for a flexible structure. In some embodiments, entries in layer tracks may include binary large objects that may have properties and associated methods, allowing for application-specific functionality.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to automatically generate code for graphical user interfaces are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a textual description analyzer to encode a user-provided textual description of a GUI design using a first neural network. The example apparatus further includes a DSL statement generator to generate a DSL statement with a second neural network. The DSL statement is to define a visual element of the GUI design. The DSL statement is generated based on at least one of the encoded textual description or a user-provided image representative of the GUI design. The example apparatus further includes a rendering tool to render a mockup of the GUI design based on the DSL statement.

Abstract: Technologies for thermal enhanced semantic segmentation include a computing device having a visible light camera and an infrared camera. The computing device receives a visible light image of a scene from the visible light camera and an infrared image of the scene from the infrared camera. The computing device registers the infrared image to the visible light image to generate a registered image. Registering the infrared image may include increasing resolution of the infrared image. The computing device generates a thermal boundary saliency image based on the registered infrared image. The computing device may generate the thermal boundary saliency image by applying a Gabor jet convolution to the registered infrared image. The computing device performs semantic segmentation on the visible light image, the registered infrared image, and the thermal boundary saliency image to generate a pixelwise semantic classification of the scene. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a configuration for a microarchitecture are described herein. An example system includes a proposal generator to generate a first candidate configuration of parameters for the microarchitecture, a machine learning model to process the first candidate configuration of parameters to output estimated performance indicators for the microarchitecture, an uncertainty checker to determine whether the estimated performance indicators are reliable, and a performance checker. In response to a determination that the estimated performance indicators are reliable, the performance checker is to determine whether the estimated performance indicators have improved toward a target. Further, if the estimated performance indicators have improved, the performance checker is to store the first candidate configuration of parameters in a memory as a potential solution for a microarchitecture without performing a full simulation on the first candidate configuration of parameters.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to implement a neural network. An apparatus to implement a neural network, the apparatus comprising memory formed on a substrate, neural network inference logic formed on the same substrate as the memory, the neural network inference logic to load a plurality of neural network parameters in a multiply-accumulate register, and perform a sample-multiply-add operation on the neural network parameter values and input data to generate a neural network inference result, and a memory controller to transfer the neural network inference result to at least one of a host memory external to the substrate or a host processor external to the substrate.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve spatial-temporal data management. An example apparatus includes a hypervoxel data structure generator to generate a root hexatree data structure having sixteen hypernodes, an octree manager to improve a spatiotemporal data access efficiency by generating a first degree of symmetry in the root hexatree, the octree manager to assign a first portion of the hypernodes to a positive temporal subspace and to assign a second portion of the hypernodes to a negative temporal subspace, and a quadtree manager to improve the spatiotemporal data access efficiency by generating a second degree of symmetry in the root hexatree, the quadtree manager to assign respective hypernodes of the positive temporal subspace and the negative temporal subspace to respective positive and negative spatial subspaces.