US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Mining unlabeled images with vision and language models for improving object detection" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,689, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mining unlabeled images with vision and language models for improving object detection" was invented by Samuel Schulter (New York) and Vijay Kumar Baikampady Gopalkrishna (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for object detection obtains, from a set of RGB images lacking annotations, a set of regions that include potential objects, a bounding box, and an objectness score indicating a region prediction confidence. The method obtains, by a region scorer for each region in the set, a category from a fixed set of categories and a confidence for the categor...