In various examples, a trailer angle may be estimated using one or more machine learning models to predict one or more keypoints on the center axis of the trailer drawbar (e.g., a keypoint representing the drawbar junction around which the drawbar pivots, one or more other keypoints along the center axis), back-projecting the predicted keypoint(s) onto a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the ground, and calculating the angle between the longitudinal axis of the towing vehicle and a line or ray formed by or fitted to the projected keypoints. The trailer angle may be estimated at any frame rate. For each frame, keypoints may be predicted from that frame and/or optical flow or some other type of feature tracking may be used to propagate predicted keypoint(s) from a preceding frame in lieu of predicting keypoint(s), and the resulting keypoint(s) may be used to estimate the trailer angle for that frame.
TRAILER ANGLE ESTIMATION USING MACHINE LEARNING
2025-02-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G06V / B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge |
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