US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 27 for "Domain vector-based domain adaptation for object detection and instance segmentation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,785, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Domain vector-based domain adaptation for object detection and instance segmentation" was invented by Takayuki Katsuki (Tokyo), Haoxiang Qiu (Tokyo), Tomoya Sakai (Tokyo) and Tadanobu Inoue (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for domain adaptation of an object detection model includes obtaining a domain vector for a domain from one or more images in the domain, the domain vector representing the property of the domain. The domain vector is input into a fully connected layers in the object detection ...