US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Dynamic network quantization for efficient video inference" (Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,333, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic network quantization for efficient video inference" was invented by Rameswar Panda (Medford, Mass.), Ximeng Sun (Brookline, Mass.), Richard Chen (Baldwin Place, N.Y.), Rogerio Schmidt Feris (West Hartford, Conn.) and Ekaterina Saenko (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recognition network is trained for a selected video frame at a desired highest precision using back-propagation and a policy network is trained using back-propagation from the trained recognition network. The recognition network is trained at a lower pr...