ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,326, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Active sparse labeling of video frames" was invented by Yogesh Singh Rawat (Orlando, Fla.) and Aayush Jung Bahadur Rana (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active sparse labeling system that provides high performance and low annotation costs by performing partial instance annotation (i.e., sparse labeling) by frame level selection to annotate the most informative frames, thereby improving action detection task efficiencies. The active sparse labeling system utilizes a frame level cost estimation to determine...