Patents by Inventor Fabian Manhardt

Fabian Manhardt 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: 20230080133
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of estimating a 6D pose and shape of one or more objects from a 2D image, comprises the steps of: detecting, within the 2D image, one or more 2D regions of interest, each 2D region of interest containing a corresponding object among the one of more objects; cropping out a corresponding pixel value array, coordinate tensor , and feature map for each 2D region of interest; concatenating the corresponding pixel value array, coordinate tensor, and feature map for each 2D region of interest; and inferring, for each 2D region of interest, a 4D quaternion describing a rotation of the corresponding object in the 3D rotation group, a 2D centroid, which is a projection of a 3D translation of the corresponding object onto a plane of the 2D image given a camera matrix associated to the 2D, image, a distance from a viewpoint of the 2D image to the corresponding object a size and a class-specific latent shape vector of the corresponding object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sven Meier, Norimasa Kobori, Luca Minciullo, Kei Yoshikawa, Fabian Manhardt, Manuel Nickel, Nassir Navab
  • Patent number: 11335024
    Abstract: A system and a method for processing an image include inputting the image to a neural network configured to: obtain a plurality of feature maps, each feature map having a respective resolution and a respective depth, perform a classification on each feature map to deliver, for each feature map: the type of at least one object visible on the image, the position and shape in the image of at least one two-dimensional bounding box surrounding the at least one object, at least one possible viewpoint for the at least one object, at least one possible in-plane rotation for the at least one object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
    Inventors: Sven Meier, Norimasa Kobori, Wadim Kehl, Fabian Manhardt, Federico Tombari
  • Publication number: 20220050997
    Abstract: A system and a method for processing an image include inputting the image to a neural network configured to: obtain a plurality of feature maps, each feature map having a respective resolution and a respective depth, perform a classification on each feature map to deliver, for each feature map: the type of at least one object visible on the image, the position and shape in the image of at least one two-dimensional bounding box surrounding the at least one object, a plurality of rotation hypotheses for the at least one object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH
    Inventors: Sven MEIER, Norimasa KOBORI, Fabian MANHARDT, Diego Martin ARROYO, Federico TOMBARI, Christian RUPPRECHT
  • Publication number: 20210374988
    Abstract: A system and a method for processing an image include inputting the image to a neural network configured to: obtain a plurality of feature maps, each feature map having a respective resolution and a respective depth, perform a classification on each feature map to deliver, for each feature map: the type of at least one object visible on the image, the position and shape in the image of at least one two-dimensional bounding box surrounding the at least one object, at least one possible viewpoint for the at least one object, at least one possible in-plane rotation for the at least one object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE
    Inventors: Sven MEIER, Norimasa KOBORI, Wadim KEHL, Fabian MANHARDT, Federico TOMBARI
  • Patent number: 11010592
    Abstract: In one embodiment, example systems and methods relate to a manner of generating 3D representations from monocular 2D images. A monocular 2D image is captured by a camera. The 2D image is processed to create one or more feature maps. The features may include depth features, or object labels, for example. Based on the image and the feature map, regions-of-interest corresponding to vehicles in the image are determined. For each region-of-interest a lifting function is applied to the region-of-interest to determine values such as height and width, camera distance, and rotation. The determined values are used to create an eight-point box that is a 3D representation of the vehicle depicted by the region-of-interest. The 3D representation can be used for a variety of purposes such as route planning, object avoidance, or as training data, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Wadim Kehl, Fabian Manhardt
  • Publication number: 20200160033
    Abstract: In one embodiment, example systems and methods relate to a manner of generating 3D representations from monocular 2D images. A monocular 2D image is captured by a camera. The 2D image is processed to create one or more feature maps. The features may include depth features, or object labels, for example. Based on the image and the feature map, regions-of-interest corresponding to vehicles in the image are determined. For each region-of-interest a lifting function is applied to the region-of-interest to determine values such as height and width, camera distance, and rotation. The determined values are used to create an eight-point box that is a 3D representation of the vehicle depicted by the region-of-interest. The 3D representation can be used for a variety of purposes such as route planning, object avoidance, or as training data, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Wadim Kehl, Fabian Manhardt