US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for training a depth estimator to be scale-aware using weak sonar supervision" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,014, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for training a depth estimator to be scale-aware using weak sonar supervision" was invented by Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Edwardo Martinez (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to training a depth estimator to be scale-aware using weak sonar supervision. In one embodiment, a depth and scale training system trains a self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) network by minimizing a photometric reproj...