Acceleration of data processing for object detection

A method comprising:

• accessing spatial data comprising a plurality of data points each having a coordinate of a first dimension, a coordinate of a second dimension, and a coordinate of a third dimension;
• dividing the spatial data along an axis of the second dimension into a first data segment and a second data segment, such that the first data segment is limited to data points of the spatial data with second dimension coordinates within a first range and the second data segment is limited to data points of the spatial data with second dimension coordinates within a second range;
• executing an object detection process on the first data segment to generate a first list of objects within the first data segment;
• executing the object detection process on the second data segment to generate a second list of objects within the second data segment;
• and
• generate a unified list of objects by combining at least one object of the first list of objects and at least one object of the second list of objects.

At least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed by a machine to cause the machine to:

• access spatial data comprising a plurality of data points each having a coordinate of a first dimension, a coordinate of a second dimension, and a coordinate of a third dimension;
• divide the spatial data along an axis of the second dimension into a first data segment and a second data segment, such that the first data segment is limited to data points of the spatial data with second dimension coordinates within a first range and the second data segment is limited to data points of the spatial data with second dimension coordinates within a second range;
• execute an object detection process on the first data segment to generate a first list of objects within the first data segment;
• execute the object detection process on the second data segment to generate a second list of objects within the second data segment;
• and
• generate a unified list of objects by combining at least one object of the first list of objects and at least one object of the second list of objects.