US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Detecting unacceptable detection and segmentation algorithm output" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,211, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting unacceptable detection and segmentation algorithm output" was invented by Pedro Luis Esquinas Fernandez (Etobicoke, Canada), Giovanni John Jacques Palma (Chaville, France), Omid Bonakdar Sakhi (North York, Canada), Paul Dufort (Toronto) and Thomas Binder (Fontenay-sous-bois, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for automatically detecting whether an output of a detection and segmentation algorithm is of an acceptable quality, a processor receives an image. A processor applies a detection stage of a detection and se...