Patents by Inventor Georg Heigold

Georg Heigold has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11961525
    Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Publication number: 20240087559
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20240062426
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
  • Publication number: 20240038245
    Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Patent number: 11854534
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20230017072
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for classifying video data with improved accuracy includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, video data comprising a plurality of video frames; extracting, by the computing system, a plurality of video tokens from the video data, the plurality of video tokens comprising a representation of spatiotemporal information in the video data; providing, by the computing system, the plurality of video tokens as input to a video understanding model, the video understanding model comprising a video transformer encoder model; and receiving, by the computing system, a classification output from the video understanding model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Georg Heigold, Chen Sun, Mario Lucic, Cordelia Luise Schmid
  • Patent number: 11557277
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. VanHoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20220383628
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining first feature vectors and second feature vectors representing contents of a first and second image frame, respectively, of an input video. The method may also include generating, based on the first feature vectors, first slot vectors, where each slot vector represents attributes of a corresponding entity as represented in the first image frame, and generating, based on the first slot vectors, predicted slot vectors including a corresponding predicted slot vector that represents a transition of the attributes of the corresponding entity from the first to the second image frame. The method may additionally include generating, based on the predicted slot vectors and the second feature vectors, second slot vectors including a corresponding slot vector that represents the attributes of the corresponding entity as represented in the second image frame, and determining an output based on the predicted slot vectors or the second slot vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Kipf, Gamaleldin Elsayed, Aravindh Mahendran, Austin Charles Stone, Sara Sabour Rouh Aghdam, Georg Heigold, Rico Jonschkowski, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Klaus Greff
  • Publication number: 20220108686
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. VanHoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A.U. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20220108478
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
  • Patent number: 11227582
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20210383199
    Abstract: A method involves receiving a perceptual representation including a plurality of feature vectors, and initializing a plurality of slot vectors represented by a neural network memory unit. Each respective slot vector is configured to represent a corresponding entity in the perceptual representation. The method also involves determining an attention matrix based on a product of the plurality of feature vectors transformed by a key function and the plurality of slot vectors transformed by a query function. Each respective value of a plurality of values along each respective dimension of the attention matrix is normalized with respect to the plurality of values. The method additionally involves determining an update matrix based on the plurality of feature vectors transformed by a value function and the attention matrix, and updating the plurality of slot vectors based on the update matrix by way of the neural network memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Dirk Weissenborn, Jakob Uszkoreit, Thomas Unterthiner, Aravindh Mahendran, Francesco Locatello, Thomas Kipf, Georg Heigold, Alexey Dosovitskiy
  • Publication number: 20210366491
    Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Patent number: 11107478
    Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Publication number: 20210125601
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A.U. Bacchiani
  • Patent number: 10916238
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20200258500
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A.U. Bacchiani
  • Patent number: 10672384
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
  • Publication number: 20200160869
    Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
  • Publication number: 20200118549
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A.U. Bacchiani