ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,512, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Rotated object detection" was invented by Kun Yan Yin (Ningbo, China), Yuan Yuan Ding (Shanghai), Zhi Xing Peng (Beijing), Fei Wang (Dalian, China) and Yue Liu (Ningbo, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one processor determines bounding boxes in an image using a neural network. At least one processor extracts an initial bounding box for an object in the image. At least one processor selects a cluster center of the bounding boxes and circumscribes a cluster box around the cluster center. At least one processor rotates the initial...