US Patent Issued to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Multi-task face detector and landmark detector" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,703, issued on July 22, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Multi-task face detector and landmark detector" was invented by Joseph Verbeke (San Francisco), Dmitry Yashunin (Nizniy Novgorod, Russia), Tamir Igorevich Baydasov (Nizniy Novgorod, Russia) and Roman Vlasov (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for facial detection techniques for image processing neural networks. In one example, a method may include collecting multi-channel outputs of a set of context modules, providing them to both a face detection head and a landmark localization head ...