Onboard Road Perception Using Associated-Region Lane Attributes

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Solution Overview

Problem

The accuracy of onboard perception models in vehicles for perceiving road environments is not high, which affects driving safety and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

The method involves acquiring associated-region lane attributes and information to be detected using onboard sensors, processing them with an onboard perception model to obtain road perception information, leveraging deep learning algorithms like convolutional neural networks and attention networks to enhance accuracy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If onboard perception models are used for road environment perception, then driving automation is enabled, but perception accuracy is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperception accuracyVSAvoiddriving safety
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines lane attribute information from associated regions with target region sensor data through data fusion. The perception model integrates lane line position, orientation, and curvature attributes from multiple sources to enhance overall perception accuracy and reliability for autonomous driving decisions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary extraction of lane attributes from associated regions before processing the target region. By pre-processing and storing lane attribute information from surrounding areas, the system prepares reference data that accelerates and improves the accuracy of real-time target region perception.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If lane attribute information from associated regions is integrated, then perception accuracy improves, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperception accuracyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the road environment into target regions and associated regions, allowing independent processing of lane attributes for each segment. This segmentation enables modular data handling where lane attributes are extracted and processed separately for different spatial zones before being integrated, reducing overall processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The perception model acts as an intermediary that receives lane attribute information from associated regions and sensor data from the target region, then processes and fuses these data streams. This intermediary processing layer manages the complexity by providing a structured interface between multiple data sources and the final perception output.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250308260A1Method for perceiving road environment, vehicle control method, training method, electronic device, autonomous driving vehicle, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.10.02 BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for perceiving a road environment, a vehicle control method, a training method, an electronic device, an autonomous driving vehicle, and a storage medium, which relate to fields of artificial intelligence technology, computer vision, deep learning and large model technologies, and may be applied to scenarios such as autonomous driving and unmanned driving. The method for perceiving a road environment includes: acquiring an associated-region lane attribute and an information to be detected, where the information to be detected is collected by an onboard sensor and represents a target region where a vehicle is traveling, the associated-region lane attribute corresponds to an associated region, and the associated region and the target region meet a predetermined similarity condition; and processing the associated-region lane attribute and the information to be detected by using an onboard perception model to obtain a road perception information of the target region.