ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,079, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Rafael Advanced Systems LTD. (Haifa, Israel).
"System and method for visual localization" was invented by Natan Peterfreund (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing a geo-location of an aerial platform, comprises: (a) providing a set of classification stages, which is trained end-to-end to provide a set of cascade decisions, wherein each cascade decision is optimized for a different classification modality and for different spatial resolution; (b) receiving a geo-location query comprising an aerial sensor image, a reference bird's eye vie...