US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 30 for "White-box temperature scaling for uncertainty estimation in object detection" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,702, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"White-box temperature scaling for uncertainty estimation in object detection" was invented by Sandhya Bhaskar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nikita Jaipuria (Pittsburgh), Jinesh Jain (San Francisco) and Shreyasha Paudel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method includes determining uncertainty estimation in an object detection deep neural network (DNN) by retrieving a calibration dataset from a validation dataset that includes scores associated with all classes in an image, including a background (BG) class, determining backgrou...