US Patent Issued to ADOBE on June 17 for "Transformer for efficient image segmentation" (California, Washington, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,731, issued on June 17, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transformer for efficient image segmentation" was invented by Yilin Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chenglin Yang (Towson, Md.), Jianming Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), He Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zijun Wei (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhe Lin (Clyde Hill, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image segmentation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an image depicting an object; generate image features for the image by performing an atrous self-attention operation based on a plurality of dilation rates for a convolutional kernel ap...