ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,626, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Systems and methods for camera-to-radar knowledge distillation" was invented by Sirajum Munir (Pittsburgh) and Wenpeng Wang (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workflow is described herein for training a radar data processing model with a reduced requirement for annotated training data. The training workflow leverages an image sensor, such as a camera, that is synchronized with a radar sensor to capture synchronous image and radar point cloud data. The training workflow utilizes a self-supervised knowledge distillation process to pre-train the...