ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,191, issued on May 6, was assigned to BEIHANG UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Fine-grained image recognition method and apparatus using graph structure represented high-order relation discovery" was invented by Jia Li (Beijing), Yifan Zhao (Beijing), Dingfeng Shi (Beijing) and Qinping Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a fine-grained image recognition method and apparatus using graph structure represented high-order relation discovery, wherein the method includes: inputting an image to be classified into a convolutional neural network feature extractor with multiple stages, extracting t...