US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on Feb. 3 for "Learning photometric error as a measure of uncertainty" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,887, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Learning photometric error as a measure of uncertainty" was invented by Vitor Guizilini (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving an image of a scene, inputting the image into a trained neural network, determining an estimated depth map for the image based on a first output of the neural network, the estimated depth map comprising a depth value for each pixel of the image, and determining a confidence level of the depth value for each pixel of the image based on a second output of the neural network."

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