US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 18 for "Instance segmentation method and apparatus" (Chinese, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,636, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Instance segmentation method and apparatus" was invented by Kunyang Sun (Nanjing, China), Hao Chen (Nanjing, China), Chunhua Shen (Adelaide, Australia), Youliang Yan (Shenzhen, China), Bin Shao (Shenzhen, China) and Songcen Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instance segmentation method and apparatus are provided. A to-be-trained segmentation network performs the following processing on each instance group that is in a sample original image and that is of pixels of a marked instance, where each instance group includes at leas...