Reducing image resolution in deep convolutional networks

VSR Annapureddy - US Patent 9,786,036, 2017 - Google Patents
A method of reducing image resolution in a deep convolu tional network (DCN) includes
dynamically selecting a reduction factor to be applied to an input image. The reduction factor …

Systems and methods for automatically generating descriptions of retinal images

KM Solanki, CA Ramachandra, SB Krupakar - US Patent 9,002,085, 2015 - Google Patents
Embodiments disclose systems and methods that aid in screening, diagnosis and/or
monitoring of medical conditions. The systems and methods may allow, for example, for …

Identifying regions of text to merge in a natural image or video frame

PK Baheti, DA Gore, HI Koo, TW Lee - US Patent 9,053,361, 2015 - Google Patents
In several aspects of described embodiments, an electronic device and method use a
camera to capture an image or a frame of video of an environment outside the electronic …

Shoe image retrieval apparatus and method using matching pair

DU Jung, SJ Lee, SK Je, KD Lee, SI Na, WG Oh… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
Provided are a shoe image retrieval apparatus and method using a matching pair, which
can accurately retrieve image information corresponding to an inputted image from the …

Feature extraction and use with a probability density function (PDF) divergence metric

RKK Kumar, PK Baheti, DA Gore - US Patent 9,141,874, 2015 - Google Patents
An image of real world is processed to identify blocks as candidates to be recognized. Each
block is subdivided into Sub-blocks, and each Sub-block is traversed to obtain counts, OO in …

Method of handling complex variants of words through prefix-tree based decoding for Devanagiri OCR

KK Barman, PK Baheti, RKK Kumar - US Patent 9,262,699, 2016 - Google Patents
An electronic device and method identify a block of text in a portion of an image of real world
captured by a camera of a mobile device, slice sub-blocks from the block and identify …

Identifying a maximally stable extremal region (MSER) in an image by skipping comparison of pixels in the region

PK Baheti, KK Barman, R Krishnamoorthi… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A difference in intensities of a pair of pixels in an image is repeatedly
compared to a threshold, with the pair of pixels being separated by at least one pixel (" …

Parameter selection and coarse localization of interest regions for MSER processing

PK Baheti, KK Barman, DA Gore… - US Patent 9,183,458, 2015 - Google Patents
An attribute is computed based on pixel intensities in an image of the real world, and
thereafter used to identify at least one input for processing the image to identify at least a first …

Automatic correction of skew in natural images and video

PK Baheti, KK Barman, HP Acharya - US Patent 9,076,242, 2015 - Google Patents
An electronic device and method use a camera to capture an image of an environment
outside followed by identification of regions therein. A Subset of the regions is selected …

Dsp-sift: domain-size pooling for image descriptors for image matching and other applications

S Soatto, J Dong - US Patent App. 15/345,373, 2017 - Google Patents
A variation of scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) based on pooling gradient orientations
across different domain sizes, in addition to spatial locations. The resulting descriptor is …