US Patent Issued to NUtech Ventures on Sept. 15 for "Learning domain and pose invariance for thermal-to-visible face recognition" (Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,092, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Neb.).

"Learning domain and pose invariance for thermal-to-visible face recognition" was invented by Benjamin S. Riggan (Lincoln, Neb.) and Cedric Nimpa Fondje (Lincoln, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for cross-spectrum face recognition is disclosed. The system for off-pose cross-spectrum to frontal visible face matching, which used modified base architectures to extract image representations along with a new sub-network to simultaneously learn pose and domain invariance using new joint-loss function that combines proposed pose-correction and...