VIEWPOINT-ADAPTIVE PERCEPTION FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINES AND APPLICATIONS USING SIMULATED SENSOR DATA

Systems and methods are disclosed relating to viewpoint adapted perception for autonomous machines and applications. A 3D perception network may be adapted to handle unavailable target rig data by training the one or more layers of the 3D perception network as part of a training network using simulated source and target rig data. A consistency loss that compares (e.g., top-down) transformed feature maps extracted from simulated source and target rig data may be used to minimize differences across training channels. As such, one or more of the paths through the training network(s) may be designated as the 3D perception network, and target rig data may be applied to the 3D perception network to perform one or more perception tasks.