US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 30 for "Unsupervised smoothing defense against adversarial images" (Brazilian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,555, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Unsupervised smoothing defense against adversarial images" was invented by Iam Palatnik de Sousa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes accessing an adversarial image, processing the adversarial image by applying a smoothing defense to the adversarial image, and classifying the processed adversarial image. The smoothing defense, which may be an unsupervised process, may include a noising process, such as a gaussian noising process, and an edge-preserving process. The smoothing defense can be implemented against b...