The Walt Disney Company
Perceptual data association

Abstract:

Embodiments provide for perceptual data association received from at least a first and a second sensor disposed at different positions in an environment, in respective time series of local scene graphs that identify several characteristics of at least one object in the environment that are updated different rates; merging, at an output rate, characteristics for each given object from the several time series of local scene graphs that are updated at the output rate; merging, at the output rate, characteristics for each given object from the time series of local scene graphs that are updated at rates other than the output rate; and outputting, at the output rate, a time series of global scene graphs including the merged characteristics.