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Old 11-24-2017, 01:56 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Further to this:

jalopnik.com:Apple's Secretive Car Program Might Have A Way For Autonomous Cars To Spot 3D Objects



Inside the dotted orange line is what they call Voxelnet. The leftward magenta boxes use (I suspect) something like OpenVDB, that I've spoken of before. Creating a sparse, shallow inverted B-tree allows the extraction of the point-wise features. It essentially is the sparse 4D tensor field they talk about.

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The problem with that approach is that if you make your computing units into neuromorphic "brainz", there's no reason to think that they won't acquire all the flaws* of biological brains in the process.
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