Patents by Inventor Yuning Chai

Yuning Chai 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).

  • Patent number: 11941875
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a perspective view range image generated from sensor measurements of an environment. The perspective view range image includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional grid and including, for each pixel, (i) features of one or more sensor measurements at a location in the environment corresponding to the pixel and (ii) geometry information comprising range features characterizing a range of the location in the environment corresponding to the pixel relative to the one or more sensors. The system processes the perspective view range image using a first neural network to generate an output feature representation. The first neural network comprises a first perspective point-set aggregation layer comprising a geometry-dependent kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Yuning Chai, Pei Sun, Jiquan Ngiam, Weiyue Wang, Vijay Vasudevan, Benjamin James Caine, Xiao Zhang, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Publication number: 20240095578
    Abstract: The disclosed technology provides solutions for generating synthetic driving scenes and in particular, for generating driving scenes with reduced safety metrics for use in testing and/or training various systems of an autonomous vehicle (AV). A method of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving, at an encoding model, driving data representative of a first driving scene, wherein the encoding model is configured to generate a first set of feature vectors based on the driving data, processing the first set of feature vectors to generate a second set of feature vectors, and processing the second set of feature vectors to generate a second driving scene. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Zhao Chen, Yuning Chai
  • Publication number: 20230234616
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for agent trajectory prediction using anchor trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yuning Chai, Benjamin Sapp, Mayank Bansal, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Patent number: 11618481
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for agent trajectory prediction using anchor trajectories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Yuning Chai, Benjamin Sapp, Mayank Bansal, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Publication number: 20220301182
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting the future movement of agents in an environment. In particular, the future movement is predicted through occupancy flow fields that specify, for each future time point in a sequence of future time points and for each agent type in a set of one or more agent types: an occupancy prediction for the future time step that specifies, for each grid cell, an occupancy likelihood that any agent of the agent type will occupy the grid cell at the future time point, and a motion flow prediction that specifies, for each grid cell, a motion vector that represents predicted motion of agents of the agent type within the grid cell at the future time point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Reza Mahjourian, Jinkyu Kim, Yuning Chai, Mingxing Tan, Benjamin Sapp, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Patent number: 11450120
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing point cloud data representing a sensor measurement of a scene captured by one or more sensors to generate an object detection output that identifies locations of one or more objects in the scene. When deployed within an on-board system of a vehicle, the object detection output that is generated can be used to make autonomous driving decisions for the vehicle with enhanced accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Jonathon Shlens, Patrick An Phu Nguyen, Benjamin James Caine, Jiquan Ngiam, Wei Han, Brandon Chauloon Yang, Yuning Chai, Pei Sun, Yin Zhou, Xi Yi, Ouais Alsharif, Zhifeng Chen, Vijay Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20220156483
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing object detection. The system obtains a respective range image corresponding to each point cloud in a set of point clouds captured by one or more sensors. The system processes each range image using a segmentation neural network to generate range image features and a segmentation output. The system generates a feature representation of the set of point clouds from only the feature representations of the foreground points. The system processes the feature representation of the set of point clouds using a prediction neural network to generate a prediction characterizing the set of point clouds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Pei Sun, Weiyue Wang, Yuning Chai, Xiao Zhang, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Publication number: 20220044068
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing a perspective view range image generated from sensor measurements of an environment. The perspective view range image includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional grid and including, for each pixel, (i) features of one or more sensor measurements at a location in the environment corresponding to the pixel and (ii) geometry information comprising range features characterizing a range of the location in the environment corresponding to the pixel relative to the one or more sensors. The system processes the perspective view range image using a first neural network to generate an output feature representation. The first neural network comprises a first perspective point-set aggregation layer comprising a geometry-dependent kernel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yuning Chai, Pei Sun, Jiquan Ngiam, Weiyue Wang, Vijay Vasudevan, Benjamin James Caine, Xiao Zhang, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Publication number: 20210390407
    Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a perspective computer vision model. The model is configured to receive input data characterizing an input scene in an environment from an input viewpoint and to process the input data in accordance with a set of model parameters to generate an output perspective representation of the scene from the input viewpoint. The system trains the model based on first data characterizing a scene in the environment from a first viewpoint and second data characterizing the scene in the environment from a second, different viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Vincent Michael Casser, Yuning Chai, Dragomir Anguelov, Hang Zhao, Henrik Kretzschmar, Reza Mahjourian, Anelia Angelova, Ariel Gordon, Soeren Pirk
  • Publication number: 20210150349
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multi object tracking using memory attention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Wei-Chih Hung, Henrik Kretzschmar, Yuning Chai, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Publication number: 20210150799
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generated simulated sensor data. One of the methods includes obtaining a surfel map generated from sensor observations of a real-world environment and generating, for each surfel in the surfel map, a respective grid having a plurality of grid cells, wherein each grid has an orientation matching an orientation of a corresponding surfel, and wherein each grid cell within each grid is assigned a respective color value. For a simulated location within a simulated representation of the real-world environment, a textured surfel rendering is generated, including combining color information from grid cells visible from the simulated location within the simulated representation of the real-world environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Zhenpei Yang, Yuning Chai, Yin Zhou, Pei Sun, Henrik Kretzschmar, Sean Rafferty, Dumitru Erhan, Dragomir Anguelov
  • Publication number: 20210012089
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing point cloud data representing a sensor measurement of a scene captured by one or more sensors to generate an object detection output that identifies locations of one or more objects in the scene. When deployed within an on-board system of a vehicle, the object detection output that is generated can be used to make autonomous driving decisions for the vehicle with enhanced accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathon Shlens, Patrick An Phu Nguyen, Benjamin James Caine, Jiquan Ngiam, Wei Han, Brandon Chauloon Yang, Yuning Chai, Pei Sun, Yin Zhou, Xi Yi, Ouais Alsharif, Zhifeng Chen, Vijay Vasudevan
  • Publication number: 20210001897
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for agent trajectory prediction using anchor trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yuning Chai, Benjamin Sapp, Mayank Bansal, Dragomir Anguelov