Method and system for generating a bird's eye view bounding box associated with an object

A processing system for generating a bounding box for an object in proximity to a vehicle, the processing system comprising:

• a processing unit;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processing unit, the memory storing machine-executable instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing system to:
• receive a 3D point cloud representative of an environment;
• receive a 2D image of the environment;
• process the 3D point cloud to identify a cluster of data points for a 3D object in the 3D point cloud;
• process the 2D image to detect a 2D object in the 2D image and generate information regarding the 2D object from the 2D image;
• and
• when the 3D object and the 2D object correspond to the same object in the environment:
• generate a bird's eye view (BEV) bounding box for the object based on the object cluster of 3D data points and the information from the 2D image.