US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Adversarial image generator" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,674, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adversarial image generator" was invented by Quanfu Fan (Lexington, Mass.), Sijia Liu (Somerville, Mass.), Gaoyuan Zhang (Medford, Mass.) and Kaidi Xu (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adversarial patches can be inserted into sample pictures by an adversarial image generator to realistically depict adversarial images. The adversarial image generator can be utilized to train an adversarial patch generator by inserting generated patches into sample pictures, and submitting the resulting adversarial images to object detection models. This...