US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Image classification through label progression" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,053, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Image classification through label progression" was invented by Hessam Bagherinezhad (Seattle), Maxwell Horton (Los Angeles), Mohammad Rastegari (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ali Farhadi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for training neural networks using labels for training data that are dynamically refined using neural networks and using these trained neural networks to perform detection and/or classification of one or more objects appearing in an image. Particular embodiments may generate a set of crops of images from a corpus o...