Patents by Inventor Cédric Picron

Cédric Picron has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240087332
    Abstract: A computer is programmed to receive image data from a sensor; generate a feature pyramid from the image data, the feature pyramid including a plurality of features; apply a plurality of preliminary bounding boxes to the features to generate a plurality of preliminarily bounded features, each preliminarily bounded feature being a pairing of one of the preliminary bounding boxes and one of the features; execute a machine-learning program on the preliminarily bounded features to determine a plurality of classifications and a respective plurality of predicted bounding boxes; and actuate a component of a machine, e.g., a vehicle, based on the classifications and the predicted bounding boxes. The machine-learning program is a two-stage object detector having a first stage and a second stage. The first stage selects a subset of the preliminarily bounded features to pass to the second stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Cédric Picron, Tinne Tuytelaars, Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 11887323
    Abstract: A method may include: receiving a first image captured by a camera at a first time instance, wherein the first image includes at least a portion of an observed vehicle; determining a first ray angle based on a coordinate system of an ego-vehicle and a coordinate system of the observed vehicle corresponding to the first image; receiving a second image captured by the camera at a second time instance, wherein the second image includes at least a portion of the observed vehicle oriented at a different viewpoint; determining a second ray angle based on a coordinate system of the ego-vehicle and the coordinate system of the observed vehicle corresponding to the second image; determining a local angle difference based on the first ray angle and the second ray angle; and training a deep neural network using the local angle difference, the first image, and the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Punarjay Chakravarty, Tinne Tuytelaars, Cédric Picron, Tom Roussel
  • Publication number: 20210383167
    Abstract: A method may include: receiving a first image captured by a camera at a first time instance, wherein the first image includes at least a portion of an observed vehicle; determining a first ray angle based on a coordinate system of an ego-vehicle and a coordinate system of the observed vehicle corresponding to the first image; receiving a second image captured by the camera at a second time instance, wherein the second image includes at least a portion of the observed vehicle oriented at a different viewpoint; determining a second ray angle based on a coordinate system of the ego-vehicle and the coordinate system of the observed vehicle corresponding to the second image; determining a local angle difference based on the first ray angle and the second ray angle; and training a deep neural network using the local angle difference, the first image, and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Punarjay Chakravarty, Tinne Tuytelaars, Cédric Picron, Tom Roussel