US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 5 for "Managing occlusion in Siamese tracking using structured dropouts" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,689, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Managing occlusion in Siamese tracking using structured dropouts" was invented by Deepak Kumar Gupta (Amsterdam), Efstratios Gavves (Amsterdam) and Arnold Wilhelmus Maria Smeulders (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for object tracking includes receiving a target image of an object of interest. Latent space features of the target image is modified at a forward pass for a neural network by dropping at least one channel of the latent space features, dropping a channel corresponding to a slice of the latent space features, or dropping one or more features ...