US Patent Issued to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 1 for "Bottom-up instance segmentation method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,267, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daegu, South Korea).

"Bottom-up instance segmentation method and device" was invented by Sang Hyun Park (Daegu, South Korea) and Acevedo Miguel Andres Luna (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a bottom-up instance segmentation method and apparatus. The bottom-up instance segmentation method includes acquiring an image, identifying a boundary of each instance and a shared pixel between instances by encoding the image into a seed map and a plurality of sigma maps based on a previously trained bottom-up segmentation m...