US Patent Issued to University of Central Ponios Research: Foundation on Sept. 22 for "Cross-view image geo-localization" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,744, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to University of Central Ponios Research: Foundation Inc (Orlando, Fla.).

"Cross-view image geo-localization" was invented by Sijie Zhu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chen Chen (Orlando, Fla.) and Mubarak Shah (Winter Park, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "CNN-based methods for cross-view image geo-localization rely on polar transform and fail to model global correlation. A pure transformer-based approach (TransGeo) is described to address these limitations from a different perspective. TransGeo takes full advantage of the strengths of the transformer related to global information modeling and explic...