US Patent Issued to HONG KONG CENTRE FOR LOGISTICS ROBOTICS on Dec. 30 for "Multi-view stereo with learnable cost metric for 3D reconstruction" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,767, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HONG KONG CENTRE FOR LOGISTICS ROBOTICS Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Multi-view stereo with learnable cost metric for 3D reconstruction" was invented by Ben M. Chen (Hong Kong), Guidong Yang (Hong Kong), Chuanxiang Gao (Hong Kong), Xi Chen (Hong Kong), Jihan Zhang (Hong Kong) and Benyun Zhao (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep learning network can perform three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction of a scene from multi-view calibrated two-dimensional (2D) images. The network can include a convolutional neural network that performs feature extraction to generate feature pyramids correspondin...