Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include obtaining, from a system using a middleware component of the system, run-time evidence of the system; applying the obtained run-time evidence to a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) Bayesian network to determine marginal probabilities for one or more nodes of the DAG Bayesian network, wherein the DAG Bayesian network comprises a plurality of nodes each representing states and faults of the system, wherein each node includes a parameterized conditional probability distribution, and wherein one or more of the nodes of the plurality of nodes specify a list of one or more safety goals and a safety value; determining which nodes representing faults have probabilities exceeding their specified safety value; and determining one or more risk mitigation techniques to activate for the determined nodes representing faults with probabilities exceeding their respective safety value.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture providing an improved Bayesian neural network and methods and apparatus to operate the same are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an oscillator to generate a first clock signal; a resistive element to adjust a slope of a rising edge of a second clock signal; a voltage sampler to generate a sample based on at least one of (a) a first voltage of the first clock signal when a second voltage of the second clock signal satisfies a threshold or (b) a third voltage of the second clock signal when a fourth voltage of the first clock signal satisfies the threshold; and a charge pump to adjust a weight based on the sample, the weight to adjust data in a model.

Abstract: A safety system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to determine, based on a friction prediction model, one or more predictive friction coefficients between the ground and one or more tires of the ground vehicle using first ground condition data and second ground condition data. The first ground condition data represent conditions of the ground at or near the position of the ground vehicle, and the second ground condition data represent conditions of the ground in front of the ground vehicle with respect to a driving direction of the ground vehicle. The one or more processors are further configured to determine driving conditions of the ground vehicle using the determined one or more predictive friction coefficients.

Abstract: Example systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to model volumetric representations of objects in scenes are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to form a set of polycells from image data of a scene, a first one of the polycells based on an intersection of (a) a first polytope representative of at least a portion of a first view frustrum corresponding to a first camera, and (b) a second polytope representative of at least a portion of a second view frustrum corresponding to a second camera. Disclosed example apparatus is also to determine a probability that the first one of the polycells is at least partially within an object in the scene, and based on comparison of the probability to a threshold, remove the first one of the polycells from the set of polycells to determine an updated set of polycells that model the object.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to calibrate a multicamera system based on a human pose are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an object identifier to identify a first set of coordinates defining first locations of anatomical points of a human in a first image captured by a first camera and identify a second set of coordinates defining second locations of the anatomical points in a second image captured by a second camera. The apparatus includes a pose detector to detect, based on at least one of the first or second sets of coordinates, when the human is in a particular pose. The apparatus includes a transformation calculator to, in response to detection of the human in the particular pose, calculate a relative transformation between the first camera and the second camera based on a first subset of the first set of coordinates and a second subset of the second set of coordinates.

Abstract: Example systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to implement and utilize epipolar scan line neural processor arrays for four-dimensional event detection and identification. An example apparatus disclosed herein is to generate, based on left input image data and right input image data, left epipolar image data and right epipolar image data, the left epipolar image data including a plurality of left epipolar scan lines, the right epipolar image data including a plurality of right epipolar scan lines. The example apparatus is also to process, with respective neural processors, respective pairs of the left epipolar scan lines and the right epipolar scan lines to detect events represented in the left input image data and the right input image data, and output data packets representative of the detected events.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for providing query selection systems are disclosed. An example query selection system includes a processor to: analyze a graph database; identify respective ones of objects associated with the graph database; obtain properties associated with the objects; identify common properties present in the respective ones of the objects; in response to determining the common properties present in the identified objects, output a list of the common properties corresponding to the respective ones of the objects; generate a table for the common properties and the respective ones of the objects; and populate the table with the common properties and the respective ones of the objects from the graph database to establish a relational database. The system further includes a machine learning model classifier to enable relational database query searching via the relational database.

Abstract: A vehicle control system (VCS) for a vehicle may include an in-vehicle bus and an intrusion detection system (IDS). The IDS may: calculate a planned output of the vehicle based on a message of a message stream received from at least one electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the in-vehicle bus, calculate a reachable set based on an uncertainty metric, and identify an intrusion of the VCS based on a comparison of the planned output and the reachable set.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for controlling one or more end effectors by generating a semantic labelled image based on image data, wherein the semantic labelled image is to identify a shape of an object and a semantic label of the object, associating a first set of actions with the object, and generating a plan based on an intersection of the first set of actions and a second set of actions to satisfy a command from a user through actuation of one or more end effectors, wherein the second set of actions are to be associated with the command

Abstract: A method for authenticating features reported by a vehicle includes receiving, from a network, a map of an area with confidence weights corresponding to each feature on the map and/or a list of trusted users; upon the vehicle entering the area, checking whether the vehicle is on the list of trusted users; and checking features reported from the vehicle and matching the features to the map of the area.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and software for implementing dual Bayesian encoding-decoding for text-to-code transformations. In one aspect, a multi-model probabilistic source code model employing dual Bayesian encoder-decoder models is used to convert natural language (NL) inputs (aka requests) into source code. An NL input is processed to generate a Probabilistic Distribution (PD) of Source code (SC) tokens in an SC token sequence and a PD of Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) tokens in an AST token sequence, wherein each SC token is associated with a respective AST token, and each of the SC and AST tokens have a respective PD. One or more fixing rules are applied to one or more tokens SC tokens that are identified as needing fixing, wherein the fixing rule are selected in consideration of the PDs of the SC tokens and the PDs of their associated AST tokens.

Abstract: A communication device for a vehicle to communicate features about the vehicle's environment includes one or more processors configured to receive a communication from another device, wherein the communication includes a global reference coordinate system for an area covered by the other device and a number of allowed transmissions to be sent from the vehicle; transform stored data about the vehicle's environment based on the global reference coordinate system; divide the transformed stored data into a plurality of subsets of data; and select one or more subsets of data from the plurality of subsets for transmission according to the number of allowed transmissions.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for controlling one or more end effectors by generating a semantic labelled image based on image data, wherein the semantic labelled image is to identify a shape of an object and a semantic label of the object, associating a first set of actions with the object, and generating a plan based on an intersection of the first set of actions and a second set of actions to satisfy a command from a user through actuation of one or more end effectors, wherein the second set of actions are to be associated with the command.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies a cognitive space that is to be a compressed representation of activations of a neural network, maps a plurality of activations of the neural network to a cognitive initial point and a cognitive destination point in the cognitive space and generates a first cognitive trajectory through the cognitive space, wherein the first cognitive trajectory traverses the cognitive space from the cognitive initial point to the cognitive destination point.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to calibrate imaging devices. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to segregate an image into regions. The example apparatus binarizes the image by associating a first one of the regions with a surface, and associating a second one of the regions with background objects. The example apparatus also generates a quadric corresponding to the surface, distinguishes a first quantity of pixels from a second quantity of pixels from the binarized image, the first quantity of pixels associated with the first one of the regions and the second quantity of pixels associated with the second one of the regions, adjusts parameters of the quadric based on the first quantity of the pixels, and calculates calibration parameters based on the adjusted parameters of the quadric.

Abstract: A safety system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to determine, based on a friction prediction model, one or more predictive friction coefficients between the ground and one or more tires of the ground vehicle using first ground condition data and second ground condition data. The first ground condition data represent conditions of the ground at or near the position of the ground vehicle, and the second ground condition data represent conditions of the ground in front of the ground vehicle with respect to a driving direction of the ground vehicle. The one or more processors are further configured to determine driving conditions of the ground vehicle using the determined one or more predictive friction coefficients.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide machine programmed creative support to a user are disclosed. An example apparatus include an artificial intelligence architecture to be trained based on previous inputs of the user; a processor to: implement a first machine learning model based on the trained artificial intelligence architecture; and predict a first action based on a current state of a computer program using the first machine learning model; implement a second machine learning model based on the trained artificial intelligence architecture; and predict a second action based on the current state of the computer program using the second machine learning model; and a controller to select a state based on the action that results in a state that is more divergent from the current state of the computer program.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that generates, via a first neural network such as a grid network, a first vector representing a prediction of future behavior of an autonomous vehicle based on a current vehicle position and a vehicle velocity. The technology may also generate, via a second neural network such as an obstacle network, a second vector representing a prediction of future behavior of an external obstacle based on a current obstacle position and an obstacle velocity, and determine, via a third neural network such as a place network, a future trajectory for the vehicle based on the first vector and the second vector, the future trajectory representing a sequence of planned future behaviors for the vehicle. The technology may also issue actuation commands to navigate the autonomous vehicle based on the future trajectory for the vehicle.

Abstract: A safety system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to determine, based on a friction prediction model, one or more predictive friction coefficients between the ground and one or more tires of the ground vehicle using first ground condition data and second ground condition data. The first ground condition data represent conditions of the ground at or near the position of the ground vehicle, and the second ground condition data represent conditions of the ground in front of the ground vehicle with respect to a driving direction of the ground vehicle. The one or more processors are further configured to determine driving conditions of the ground vehicle using the determined one or more predictive friction coefficients.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to facilitate generation of database queries are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a generator to generate a global importance tensor. The global importance tensor based on a knowledge graph representative of information stored in a database. The knowledge graph includes objects and connections between the objects. The global importance tensor includes importance values for different types of the connections between the objects. The example apparatus further includes an importance adaptation analyzer to generate a session importance tensor based on the global importance tensor and a user query, and a user interface to provide a suggested query to a user based on the session importance tensor.