US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Self-supervised learning using in-painting" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,992, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Self-supervised learning using in-painting" was invented by Naomi Simumba (Yokohama, Japan), Michiaki Tatsubori (Oiso, Japan) and Daiki Kimura (Midori-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-supervised learning of a machine learning model using images. The computing device masks a section of each image in an image database to generate a partially masked image. An autoencoder encodes each partially masked image to generate one or more encodings representing each partially masked image. The autoencoder decodes each of the one or more en...