US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Sept. 16 for "Method for training a neural network for semantic image segmentation" (German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,544, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for training a neural network for semantic image segmentation" was invented by Serin Varghese (Braunschweig, Germany), Fabian Huger (Wolfenbuttel, Germany), Yasin Bayzidi (Braunschweig, Germany) and Sharat Gujamagadi (Dharwad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method, a computer program, and an apparatus for training a neural network for semantic image segmentation. The invention further relates to an in-car control unit or a backend system, which make use of such a method or apparatus, and to a vehicle comprisi...