US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 7 for "Training instance segmentation neural networks through contrastive learning" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,527, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Training instance segmentation neural networks through contrastive learning" was invented by Alex Zihao Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.), Vincent Michael Casser (Cambridge, Mass.), Henrik Kretzschmar (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Reza Mahjourian (Austin, Texas) and Soeren Pirk (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing inputs that include video frames using neural networks. In one aspect, a system comprises one or more computers configured to obtain a set of one or more training images and, for each training image, ground ...