US Patent Issued to Adobe on April 22 for "Generating image mattes without trimap segmentations via a multi-branch neural network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,987, issued on April 22, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating image mattes without trimap segmentations via a multi-branch neural network" was invented by Zichuan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Lu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ke Wang (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating image mattes for detected objects in digital images without trimap segmentation via a multi-branch neural network. The disclosed system utilizes a first neural network branch of a generative neural network to extract a coarse semantic mask fro...