US Patent 11532098 Determining multi-degree-of-freedom pose to navigate a vehicle

An imaging system and method of providing localization data to a vehicle using the imaging system is disclosed. The method may comprise: capturing, from an electronic depth camera, one or more images, wherein the one or more images include at least a portion of the vehicle; and using a deep neural network and the one or more images, determining a multi-degree of freedom (MDF) pose of the vehicle, wherein an optical axis of the electronic depth camera is oriented along a Z-axis according to a Cartesian coordinate system (comprising an X-axis, a Y-axis, and the Z-axis), wherein the Z-axis is plumb with respect to Earth.