US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 30 for "Method and apparatus with face landmark coordinate prediction" (South Korean, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,793, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with face landmark coordinate prediction" was invented by Zidong Guo (Xi'an, China), Jae-Joon Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seon-Min Rhee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungju Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hui Li (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus with landmark coordinate prediction are provided. The method includes generating a multi-stage feature map for landmarks of a face image through a staged convolutional network, generating an initial query matrix by fully connecting a last-stage f...