Patents by Inventor Christian COLLIANDER

Christian COLLIANDER 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: 12293529
    Abstract: A method for prioritizing feature extraction for object re-identification in an object tracking application. Region of interests (ROI) for object feature extraction is determined based on motion areas in the image frame. Each object detected in an image frame and which is at least partly overlapping with a ROI is associated with the ROI. A list of candidate objects for feature extraction is determined by, for each ROI associated with two or more objects: adding each object of the two or more objects that is not overlapping with any of the other objects among the two or more objects with more than a threshold amount. From the list of candidate objects, at least one object is selected, and image data of the image frame depicting the selected object is used for determining a feature vector for the selected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Niclas Danielsson, Christian Colliander, Amanda Nilsson, Sarah Laross
  • Patent number: 12190590
    Abstract: A method for determining images plausible to have a false negative object detection comprises providing a group of historic trajectories, wherein each historic trajectory comprises a reference track that represents one or more historic tracks and comprises an object class of historic object detections that belong to the one or more historic tracks; performing tracking; performing object detection; for a determined track that does not match any determined object detection, comparing the determined track with reference tracks of historic trajectories for identifying a matching reference track; upon identifying a matching reference track, defining images of the determined track as being plausible to have a false negative object detection for the object class of the historic trajectory comprising the matching reference track; and upon not identifying a matching reference track, defining the determined track as a false positive track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Axis AB
    Inventors: Jakob Grundström, Martin Ljungqvist, Simon Molin, Christian Colliander
  • Publication number: 20250005907
    Abstract: A method for feature extraction of detected objects, comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of images, each depicting an object detected by the object detecting application; concatenating the plurality of images into a composite image according to a grid pattern; feeding the composite image through a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained for feature extraction, wherein each convolutional layer of the CNN is configured to, while convolving input data to the convolutional layer using a convolutional filter: determine a currently convolved image of the plurality of images by determining a centre coordinate of a subset of the input data currently covered by the convolutional filter, and mapping the centre coordinate to the grid pattern; and selectively nullifying all weights of the convolutional filter that cover input data derived from any of the plurality of images not being the currently convolved image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Axis AB
    Inventors: Niclas DANIELSSON, Amanda NILSSON, Christian COLLIANDER, Sarah LAROSS
  • Publication number: 20240386579
    Abstract: A method for prioritizing feature extraction for object re-identification in an object tracking application. Region of interests (ROI) for object feature extraction is determined based on motion areas in the image frame. Each object detected in an image frame and which is at least partly overlapping with a ROI is associated with the ROI. A list of candidate objects for feature extraction is determined by, for each ROI associated with two or more objects: adding each object of the two or more objects that is not overlapping with any of the other objects among the two or more objects with more than a threshold amount. From the list of candidate objects, at least one object is selected, and image data of the image frame depicting the selected object is used for determining a feature vector for the selected object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Axis AB
    Inventors: Niclas DANIELSSON, Christian Colliander, Amanda Nilsson, Sarah Laross
  • Patent number: 12094236
    Abstract: A method of object re-identification in images of objects comprises providing a plurality of neural networks for object re-identification, wherein each of the plurality of neural networks is trained on image data with different sets of anatomical features, each set being represented by a reference vector; receiving a plurality of images of objects and an input vector representing anatomical features that are depicted in all of the plurality of images; comparing the input vector with the reference vectors for determining, according to a predefined condition, the most similar reference vector; and inputting image data of the plurality of objects to the neural network represented by the most similar reference vector for determining whether the plurality of objects have the same identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: AXIS AB
    Inventors: Markus Skans, Christian Colliander, Martin Ljungqvist, Willie Betschart, Niclas Danielsson
  • Publication number: 20220309792
    Abstract: A method for determining images plausible to have a false negative object detection comprises providing a group of historic trajectories, wherein each historic trajectory comprises a reference track that represents one or more historic tracks and comprises an object class of historic object detections that belong to the one or more historic tracks; performing tracking; performing object detection; for a determined track that does not match any determined object detection, comparing the determined track with reference tracks of historic trajectories for identifying a matching reference track; upon identifying a matching reference track, defining images of the determined track as being plausible to have a false negative object detection for the object class of the historic trajectory comprising the matching reference track; and upon not identifying a matching reference track, defining the determined track as a false positive track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Axis AB
    Inventors: Jakob GRUNDSTRÖM, Martin LJUNGQVIST, Simon MOLIN, Christian COLLIANDER
  • Publication number: 20210142149
    Abstract: A method of object re-identification in images of objects comprises providing a plurality of neural networks for object re-identification, wherein each of the plurality of neural networks is trained on image data with different sets of anatomical features, each set being represented by a reference vector; receiving a plurality of images of objects and an input vector representing anatomical features that are depicted in all of the plurality of images; comparing the input vector with the reference vectors for determining, according to a predefined condition, the most similar reference vector; and inputting image data of the plurality of objects to the neural network represented by the most similar reference vector for determining whether the plurality of objects have the same identity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Axis AB
    Inventors: Markus SKANS, Christian COLLIANDER, Martin LJUNGQVIST, Willie BETSCHART, Niclas DANIELSSON