LOCALIZING RELEVANT OBJECTS IN MULTI-OBJECT IMAGES

Patent №

US 11,636,663

Granted

2023-04-25

Filed 2021

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

6

nlp · vision · kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17180576

Solutions for localizing relevant objects in multi-object images include receiving a multi-object image; detecting a plurality of detected objects within the multi-object image; generating a primary heatmap for the multi-object image, the primary heatmap having at least one region of interest; determining a relevant detected object corresponding to a region of interest in the primary heatmap; determining an irrelevant detected object not corresponding to a region of interest in the primary heatmap; and indicating the relevant detected object as an output result but not indicating the irrelevant detected object as an output result. Some examples identify a plurality of objects that are visually similar to the relevant object and displaying the visually similar objects to a user, for example as recommendations of alternative catalog items on an e-commerce website. Some examples are able to identify a plurality of relevant objects and display multiple sets of visually similar objects.

Natural languageVisionKnowledge representationPlanningEvolutionary computationAI hardwareG06V 10/25G06V 10/82G06F 16/53G06F 16/58G06F 18/2113G06F 18/2413G06Q 30/0277G06Q 30/0601+4 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning1.00
Evolutionary computation0.73
Natural language0.66
AI hardware0.63
Knowledge representation0.52
Machine learning0.03
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 568920711

Assignors

BARKAN, OREN, HERTZ, AMIR, ARMSTRONG, OMRI, KOENIGSTEIN, NOAM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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