US Patent Issued to The Toronto-Dominion Bank on Jan. 28 for "Weakly supervised action selection learning in video" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,274, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Weakly supervised action selection learning in video" was invented by Junwei Ma (Toronto), Satya Krishna Gorti (Toronto), Maksims Volkovs (Toronto) and Guangwei Yu (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video localization system localizes actions in videos based on a classification model and an actionness model. The classification model is trained to make predictions of which segments of a video depict an action and to classify the actions in the segments. The actionness model predicts whether any action is occurring in each segment, rather than predicti...