Patents by Inventor Bernhard Schoelkopf
Bernhard Schoelkopf 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).
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Patent number: 7318051Abstract: In a pre-processing step prior to training a learning machine, pre-processing includes reducing the quantity of features to be processed using feature selection methods selected from the group consisting of recursive feature elimination (RFE), minimizing the number of non-zero parameters of the system (lo-norm minimization), evaluation of cost function to identify a subset of features that are compatible with constraints imposed by the learning set, unbalanced correlation score and transductive feature selection. The features remaining after feature selection are then used to train a learning machine for purposes of pattern classification, regression, clustering and/or novelty detection. (FIG.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2002Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Health Discovery CorporationInventors: Jason Aaron Edward Weston, André Elisseeff, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Fernando Pérez-Cruz
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Patent number: 7236626Abstract: Systems and methods for object or pattern detection that use a nonlinear support vector (SV) machine are described. In the illustrated and described embodiment, objects or patterns comprising faces are detected. The decision surface is approximated in terms of a reduced set of expansion vectors. In order to determine the presence of a face, the kernelized inner product of the expansion vectors with the input pattern are sequentially evaluated and summed, such that if at any point the pattern can be rejected as not comprising a face, no more expansion vectors are used. The sequential application of the expansion vectors produces a substantial saving in computational time.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Blake, Sami Romdhani, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Philip H. S. Torr
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Publication number: 20070106956Abstract: What is disclosed is acquiring information regarding a web page, without having to commit to downloading that page. In one embodiment, after a current web page is downloaded from one source, and information regarding web pages linked to by links in the current web page are downloaded from a second source, when a user hovers a cursor over a link on a current web page, an informational region is displayed by the link that includes the information from the second source. The informational region may include, for example, a text box that apparently floats by the link. The information in the region can include, for example, keywords in the meta tags of the web page; paragraph headings of the web page; links on the web page to other pages; etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Platt, Lisa Heilbron, Patrice Simard, Bernhard Schoelkopf
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Patent number: 7155489Abstract: What is disclosed is acquiring information regarding a web page, without having to commit to downloading that page. In one embodiment, after a current web page is downloaded from one source, and information regarding web pages linked to by links in the current web page are downloaded from a second source, when a user hovers a cursor over a link on a current web page, an informational region is displayed by the link that includes the information from the second source. The informational region may include, for example, a text box that apparently floats by the link. The information in the region can include, for example, keywords in the meta tags of the web page; paragraph headings of the web page; links on the web page to other pages; etc.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2000Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lisa Heilbron, John C. Platt, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Patrice Y. Simard
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Patent number: 7120293Abstract: A system and process for creating an interactive digital image, which allows a viewer to interact with a displayed image so as to change it with regard to a desired effect, such as exposure, focus or color, among others. An interactive image includes representative images which depict a scene with some image parameter varying between them. The interactive image also includes an index image, whose pixels each identify the representative image that exhibits the desired effect related to the varied image parameter at a corresponding pixel location. For example, a pixel of the index image might identify the representative image having a correspondingly-located pixel that depicts a portion of the scene at the sharpest focus. One primary form of interaction involves selecting a pixel of a displayed image whereupon the representative image identified in the index image at a corresponding pixel location is displayed in lieu of the currently displayed image.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2001Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bernhard Schoelkopf, Kentaro Toyama, Matthew T. Uyttendaele
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Patent number: 7099504Abstract: Systems and methods for object or pattern detection that use a nonlinear support vector (SV) machine are described. In the illustrated and described embodiment, objects or patterns comprising faces are detected. The decision surface is approximated in terms of a reduced set of expansion vectors. In order to determine the presence of a face, the kernelized inner product of the expansion vectors with the input pattern are sequentially evaluated and summed, such that if at any point the pattern can be rejected as not comprising a face, no more expansion vectors are used. The sequential application of the expansion vectors produces a substantial saving in computational time.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2004Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Blake, Sami Romdhani, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Philip H. S. Torr
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Publication number: 20060133667Abstract: A system and process for creating an interactive digital image, which allows a viewer to interact with a displayed image so as to change it with regard to a desired effect, such as exposure, focus or color, among others. An interactive image includes representative images which depict a scene with some image parameter varying between them. The interactive image also includes an index image, whose pixels each identify the representative image that exhibits the desired effect related to the varied image parameter at a corresponding pixel location. For example, a pixel of the index image might identify the representative image having a correspondingly-located pixel that depicts a portion of the scene at the sharpest focus. One primary form of interaction involves selecting a pixel of a displayed image whereupon the representative image identified in the index image at a corresponding pixel location is displayed in lieu of the currently displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bernhard Schoelkopf, Kentaro Toyama, Matthew Uyttendaele
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Publication number: 20050216426Abstract: In a pre-processing step prior to training a learning machine, pre-processing includes reducing the quantity of features to be processed using feature selection methods selected from the group consisting of recursive feature elimination (RFE), minimizing the number of non-zero parameters of the system (lo-norm minimization), evaluation of cost function to identify a subset of features that are compatible with constraints imposed by the learning set, unbalanced correlation score and transductive feature selection. The features remaining after feature selection are then used to train a learning machine for purposes of pattern classification, regression, clustering and/or novelty detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2002Publication date: September 29, 2005Inventors: Jason Aaron Weston, Andre Elisseeff, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Fernando Perez-Cruz
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Publication number: 20050196048Abstract: Systems and methods for object or pattern detection that use a nonlinear support vector (SV) machine are described. In the illustrated and described embodiment, objects or patterns comprising faces are detected. The decision surface is approximated in terms of a reduced set of expansion vectors. In order to determine the presence of a face, the kernelized inner product of the expansion vectors with the input pattern are sequentially evaluated and summed, such that if at any point the pattern can be rejected as not comprising a face, no more expansion vectors are used. The sequential application of the expansion vectors produces a substantial saving in computational time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2005Publication date: September 8, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Blake, Sami Romdhani, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Philip Torr
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Publication number: 20050157933Abstract: Systems and methods for object or pattern detection that use a nonlinear support vector (SV) machine are described. In the illustrated and described embodiment, objects or patterns comprising faces are detected. The decision surface is approximated in terms of a reduced set of expansion vectors. In order to determine the presence of a face, the kernelized inner product of the expansion vectors with the input pattern are sequentially evaluated and summed, such that if at any point the pattern can be rejected as not comprising a face, no more expansion vectors are used. The sequential application of the expansion vectors produces a substantial saving in computational time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Blake, Sami Romdhani, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Philip Torr
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Publication number: 20050104969Abstract: A system and process for creating an interactive digital image, which allows a viewer to interact with a displayed image so as to change it with regard to a desired effect, such as exposure, focus or color, among others. An interactive image includes representative images which depict a scene with some image parameter varying between them. The interactive image also includes an index image, whose pixels each identify the representative image that exhibits the desired effect related to the varied image parameter at a corresponding pixel location. For example, a pixel of the index image might identify the representative image having a correspondingly-located pixel that depicts a portion of the scene at the sharpest focus. One primary form of interaction involves selecting a pixel of a displayed image whereupon the representative image identified in the index image at a corresponding pixel location is displayed in lieu of the currently displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bernhard Schoelkopf, Kentaro Toyama, Matthew Uyttendaele
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Publication number: 20050104966Abstract: A system and process for creating an interactive digital image, which allows a viewer to interact with a displayed image so as to change it with regard to a desired effect, such as exposure, focus or color, among others. An interactive image includes representative images which depict a scene with some image parameter varying between them. The interactive image also includes an index image, whose pixels each identify the representative image that exhibits the desired effect related to the varied image parameter at a corresponding pixel location. For example, a pixel of the index image might identify the representative image having a correspondingly-located pixel that depicts a portion of the scene at the sharpest focus. One primary form of interaction involves selecting a pixel of a displayed image whereupon the representative image identified in the index image at a corresponding pixel location is displayed in lieu of the currently displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bernhard Schoelkopf, Kentaro Toyama, Matthew Uyttendaele
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Publication number: 20040213439Abstract: Systems and methods for object or pattern detection that use a nonlinear support vector (SV) machine are described. In the illustrated and described embodiment, objects or patterns comprising faces are detected. The decision surface is approximated in terms of a reduced set of expansion vectors. In order to determine the presence of a face, the kernelized inner product of the expansion vectors with the input pattern are sequentially evaluated and summed, such that if at any point the pattern can be rejected as not comprising a face, no more expansion vectors are used. The sequential application of the expansion vectors produces a substantial saving in computational time.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Blake, Sami Romdhani, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Philip H.S. Torr
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Patent number: 6804391Abstract: Systems and methods for object or pattern detection that use a nonlinear support vector (SV) machine are described. In the illustrated and described embodiment, objects or patterns comprising faces are detected. The decision surface is approximated in terms of a reduced set of expansion vectors. In order to determine the presence of a face, the kernelized inner product of the expansion vectors with the input pattern are sequentially evaluated and summed, such that if at any point the pattern can be rejected as not comprising a face, no more expansion vectors are used. The sequential application of the expansion vectors produces a substantial saving in computational time.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2000Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew Blake, Sami Romdhani, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Philip H. S. Torr
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Publication number: 20030103670Abstract: A system and process for creating an interactive digital image, which allows a viewer to interact with a displayed image so as to change it with regard to a desired effect, such as exposure, focus or color, among others. An interactive image includes representative images which depict a scene with some image parameter varying between them. The interactive image also includes an index image, whose pixels each identify the representative image that exhibits the desired effect related to the varied image parameter at a corresponding pixel location. For example, a pixel of the index image might identify the representative image having a correspondingly-located pixel that depicts a portion of the scene at the sharpest focus. One primary form of interaction involves selecting a pixel of a displayed image whereupon the representative image identified in the index image at a corresponding pixel location is displayed in lieu of the currently displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2001Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: Bernhard Schoelkopf, Kentaro Toyama, Matthew T. Uyttendaele