US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Detecting fine-grained similarity in images" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,353, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting fine-grained similarity in images" was invented by Fei Wang (Dalian, China), Xue Ping Liu (Beijing), Dan Zhang (Beijing), Yun Jing Zhao (Beijing), Kun Yan Yin (Ningbo, China), Zhi Xing Peng (Beijing) and Jian Long Sun (Hebei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting fine-grained similarity in image includes determining a core area of a search image by generating an image salient map from a plurality of layers of the search image and determining a connected area based on the image salient map. Feature descriptors are generate...