ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,521, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Beijing).

"Few-shot object detection method" was invented by Zhonghong Ou (Beijing), Junwei Yang (Beijing), Xiaoyang Kang (Beijing), Jiawei Fan (Beijing), Xie Yu (Beijing) and Meina Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A few-shot object detection method includes: sending a weight of a backbone network and a weight of a feature pyramid to a detection network; generating candidate regions, in which the candidate regions derived from a result of foreground-and-background classification and regression of output features of the visual represent...