Patents by Inventor Niloufar Pourian

Niloufar Pourian 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: 11978177
    Abstract: A method and system of image processing of omnidirectional images with a viewpoint shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Radka Tezaur, Niloufar Pourian
  • Publication number: 20240062391
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to improve separation mask estimation. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the instructions to deactivate a motion network and activate an attribute network in response to a frame input of a stream to a neural network. The example apparatus also executes the instructions to train the attribute network based on the frame input, activate the motion network and deactivate the attribute network in response to a subsequent frame input of the stream to the neural network, train the motion network based on the subsequent frame, and determine pixels of the video stream that are moving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Niloufar Pourian, Alexey Supikov
  • Patent number: 11256949
    Abstract: An example method is described herein. The method includes executing dense feature matching on an image pair that is down sampled to obtain a first set of feature correspondences for each pixel of the down sampled image pair. The method also includes calculating a neighborhood correspondence based on the first set of feature correspondences for each pixel in a first image of the image pair. Further, the method includes executing sparse feature matching on stereoscopic patch pairs from the image pair based on the neighborhood correspondence for each pixel to obtain correspondence estimates for each stereoscopic patch pair. Finally, the method includes refining the correspondence estimates for each stereoscopic patch pair to obtain a semi-dense set of feature correspondences by applying a geometric constraint to the correspondence estimates and retaining correspondences that satisfy the geometric constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oscar Nestares, Niloufar Pourian
  • Publication number: 20210103764
    Abstract: Techniques related to optical flow estimation for equirectangular images are discussed. Such techniques include combining an optical flow map generated using an input pair of equirectangular images and an optical flow map generated using a transformed pair of equirectangular images rotated with respect to the input pair to move polar regions in the input pair to central regions in the transformed pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Niloufar Pourian, Oscar Nestares
  • Patent number: 10896348
    Abstract: Techniques related to feature detection and matching fisheye images are discussed. Such techniques include determining a geometric constraint for the feature matching using match results from a first image based feature matching and generating resultant matches based on applying the geometric constraint and a second image based feature matching that applies a looser image based feature matching requirement than the image based feature matching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Niloufar Pourian, Oscar Nestares
  • Publication number: 20210012454
    Abstract: A method and system of image processing of omnidirectional images with a viewpoint shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Radka Tezaur, Niloufar Pourian
  • Publication number: 20210004969
    Abstract: Techniques related to multi-level optical flow estimation are discussed. Such techniques include partitioning each pair of input images into one or more partitions, separately performing optical flow estimation on the partitions, and merging the separately generated optical flow results into a final optical flow map for the pair of input images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Niloufar Pourian, Oscar Nestares
  • Publication number: 20190318196
    Abstract: An example method is described herein. The method includes executing dense feature matching on an image pair that is down sampled to obtain a first set of feature correspondences for each pixel of the down sampled image pair. The method also includes calculating a neighborhood correspondence based on the first set of feature correspondences for each pixel in a first image of the image pair. Further, the method includes executing sparse feature matching on stereoscopic patch pairs from the image pair based on the neighborhood correspondence for each pixel to obtain correspondence estimates for each stereoscopic patch pair. Finally, the method includes refining the correspondence estimates for each stereoscopic patch pair to obtain a semi-dense set of feature correspondences by applying a geometric constraint to the correspondence estimates and retaining correspondences that satisfy the geometric constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Oscar Nestares, Niloufar Pourian
  • Publication number: 20190156145
    Abstract: Techniques related to feature detection and matching fisheye images are discussed. Such techniques include determining a geometric constraint for the feature matching using match results from a first image based feature matching and generating resultant matches based on applying the geometric constraint and a second image based feature matching that applies a looser image based feature matching requirement than the image based feature matching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Niloufar Pourian, Oscar Nestares