US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Aug. 5 for "Vehicle reidentification" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,674, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Vehicle reidentification" was invented by Sally S. Ghanem (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Ryan A. Kerekes (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Ryan A. Tokola (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for decision fusion utilizing features extracted from vehicle images and their detected wheels. Siamese networks are exploited to extract key signatures from pairs of vehicle images. The present disclosure melds different types of similarity scores (whole vehicle and wheels/hubcaps) between target and test vehicles to robustly integrate different similarity scores and pr...