Patents by Inventor Bohui Pang

Bohui Pang 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: 12536775
    Abstract: A time-series image description method for dam defects based on local self-attention mechanism is provided, including: performing frame sampling on an input time-series image of dam defect, extracting a feature sequence using a convolutional neural network and using the sequence as an input to a self-attention encoder, where the encoder includes a Transformer network based on a variable self-attention mechanism that dynamically establishes contextual feature relations for each frame; generating description text using a long short term memory (LSTM) network based on a local attention mechanism to enable each word predicted to be feature related to an image frame, improving text generation accuracy by establishing a contextual dependency between image and text. A dynamic mechanism is added to the present application for calculating the global self-attention of image frames, and LSTM networks with added local attention directly establish the correspondence between image and text modal data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignees: Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc, Hohai University
    Inventors: Hongqi Ma, Haibin Xiao, Yingchi Mao, Fudong Chi, Rongzhi Qi, Bohui Pang, Xiaofeng Zhou, Hao Chen, Jiyuan Yu, Huan Zhao
  • Patent number: 12493752
    Abstract: An automatic concrete dam defect image description generation method based on graph attention network, including: 1) extract the local grid features and whole image features of the defect image and conduct image coding by using multi-layer convolutional neural network; 2) construct the grid feature interaction graph, and fuse and encode the grid visual features and global image features of the defect image; 3) update and optimize the global and local features through the graph attention network, and fully utilize the improved visual features for defect description. The invention constructs the grid feature interaction graph, updates the node information by using the graph attention network, and realizes the feature extraction task as the graph node classification task. The invention can capture the global image information of the defect image and the potential interaction of local grid features, and the generated description text can accurately and coherently describe the defect information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignees: Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc, Hohai Univerdity, HUANENG GROUP R&D CENTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Fudong Chi, Yingchi Mao, Hao Chen, Xu Wan, Huan Zhao, Bohui Pang, Jiyuan Yu, Rui Guo, Guangyao Wu, Shunbo Wang
  • Patent number: 12429398
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automatic patrol inspection and intelligent erosion defect detection method and apparatus for a flood discharge tunnel, and belongs to the technical field of patrol inspection and defect detection. The method includes: constructing a flood discharge tunnel erosion defect database; constructing a flood discharge tunnel erosion defect analysis and evaluation standard and early warning threshold; performing automatic patrol inspection; and performing image analysis processing and intelligent recognition model training. According to the present disclosure, a condition of the flood discharge tunnel can undergo automatic patrol inspection, an erosion impact degree can be rapidly recognized and determined, the downstream life safety are not in danger during flood discharge, and a patrol inspection efficiency and a detection efficiency can be noticeably improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignees: Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc., Tianjin University
    Inventors: Bohui Pang, Haibin Xiao, Xuexing Cao, Hao Chen, Mai Meng, Haodong Chen
  • Publication number: 20250245390
    Abstract: The present application relates to an on-line evaluation layered model including a monitoring data layer, a diagnosis method layer, an evaluation indicator layer, a monitored item layer, a key part layer, and an overall project layer. The method further includes collecting same-type multi-measuring-point monitoring data and multi-type multi-measuring-point monitoring data of a concrete dam, determining various indicator analysis results of the concrete dam based on the same-type multi-measuring-point monitoring data, determining various indicator operation scoring results of the concrete dam based on the multi-type multi-measuring-point monitoring data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicants: HUANENG LANCANG RIVER HYDROPOWER INC., HOHAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hao CHEN, Hua ZHOU, Tengfei BAO, Hua MAO, Fudong CHI, Mingxin WU, Zhiyong ZHAO, Houlei XU, Xiaodi QIU, Chengdong LIU, Hua LIU, Xu CHEN, Bohui PANG, Zhuojing YU, Bingbing NIE, Shan ZHOU, Jun GUO, Longhai XI, Guangyao WU, Peng ZHANG, Haibo LIU, Baogang SONG, Yinan LI
  • Publication number: 20240183743
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automatic patrol inspection and intelligent erosion defect detection method and apparatus for a flood discharge tunnel, and belongs to the technical field of patrol inspection and defect detection. The method includes: constructing a flood discharge tunnel erosion defect database; constructing a flood discharge tunnel erosion defect analysis and evaluation standard and early warning threshold; performing automatic patrol inspection; and performing image analysis processing and intelligent recognition model training. According to the present disclosure, a condition of the flood discharge tunnel can undergo automatic patrol inspection, an erosion impact degree can be rapidly recognized and determined, the downstream life safety are not in danger during flood discharge, and a patrol inspection efficiency and a detection efficiency can be noticeably improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Bohui Pang, Haibin Xiao, Xuexing Cao, Hao Chen, Mai Meng, Haodong Chen
  • Publication number: 20230401390
    Abstract: An automatic concrete dam defect image description generation method based on graph attention network, including: 1) extract the local grid features and whole image features of the defect image and conduct image coding by using multi-layer convolutional neural network; 2) construct the grid feature interaction graph, and fuse and encode the grid visual features and global image features of the defect image; 3) update and optimize the global and local features through the graph attention network, and fully utilize the improved visual features for defect description. The invention constructs the grid feature interaction graph, updates the node information by using the graph attention network, and realizes the feature extraction task as the graph node classification task. The invention can capture the global image information of the defect image and the potential interaction of local grid features, and the generated description text can accurately and coherently describe the defect information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Fudong Chi, Yingchi Mao, Hao Chen, Xu Wan, Huan Zhao, Bohui Pang, Jiyuan Yu, Rui Guo, Guangyao Wu, Shunbo Wang
  • Publication number: 20230368500
    Abstract: A time-series image description method for dam defects based on local self-attention mechanism is provided, including: performing frame sampling on an input time-series image of dam defect, extracting a feature sequence using a convolutional neural network and using the sequence as an input to a self-attention encoder, where the encoder includes a Transformer network based on a variable self-attention mechanism that dynamically establishes contextual feature relations for each frame; generating description text using a long short term memory (LSTM) network based on a local attention mechanism to enable each word predicted to be feature related to an image frame, improving text generation accuracy by establishing a contextual dependency between image and text. A dynamic mechanism is added to the present application for calculating the global self-attention of image frames, and LSTM networks with added local attention directly establish the correspondence between image and text modal data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hongqi Ma, Haibin Xiao, Yingchi Mao, Fudong Chi, Rongzhi Qi, Bohui Pang, Xiaofeng Zhou, Hao Chen, Jiyuan Yu, Huan Zhao