US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 2 for "Cascade approach to few-shot semantic segmentation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,286, issued on June 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cascade approach to few-shot semantic segmentation" was invented by Tomoya Sakai (Tokyo), Takayuki Katsuki (Tokyo), Haoxiang Qiu (Tokyo), Takayuki Osogami (Yamato, Japan) and Tadanobu Inoue (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for semantic segmentation includes constructing a co-occurrence table that includes co-occurrences of predictions of a pre-trained model for base classes and labels for novel classes from the pre-trained model for base classes and from training data with novel classes. Classifier...