US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 15 for "Training self-classifier using image augmentations and uniform prior" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,294, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Training self-classifier using image augmentations and uniform prior" was invented by Elad Amrani (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to receive image samples for training. The processor can generate different augmented views of each of the image samples. The processor can then train a self-classifier neural network using the different augmented views to minimize a cross entropy of the different augmented views in which a uniform prior is asserted on class predictions."

The patent w...