US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on Feb. 4 for "Multiple hypothesis transformation matching for robust verification of object identification" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,339, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Multiple hypothesis transformation matching for robust verification of object identification" was invented by Marios Savvides (Pittsburgh) and Uzair Ahmed (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for increasing the confidence of a match between a test image and an image stored in a library database in which features are extracted from the test image and compared to features stored in the image database. If a match is determined, one or more transformations are performed on the test image to generate pose-altered images from which features are e...