US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on July 8 for "Grouped mathematical differentiable NMS for object detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,383, issued on July 8, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Grouped mathematical differentiable NMS for object detection" was invented by Xiaoming Liu (Okemos, Mich.), Abhinav Kumar (East Lansing, Mich.) and Garrick Brazil (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-to-end trainable grouped mathematically differentiable non-maximal suppression (NMS) technique is presented for monocular 3D object detection. First, formulate NMS as a matrix operation and then group and mask the boxes in an unsupervised manner to obtain a simple closed-form expression of the NMS. This techn...