Patents by Inventor Davide Modolo

Davide Modolo 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: 11971956
    Abstract: Techniques for training a visual neural network are described. In particular, the training of the visual neural network may be performed using one or more contrastive learning loss functions including one or more of a visual-to-visual contrastive learning function using the visual neural network on positive and negative video clips according to a first loss function, a secondary-to-secondary contrastive learning a secondary neural network on secondary positive and negative information generated from the positive and negative video clips, and a secondary-to-visual contrastive learning according to a third loss function using the visual neural network on positive and negative video clips and using the secondary neural network secondary positive and negative information generated from the positive and negative video clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fanyi Xiao, Joseph P. Tighe, Davide Modolo
  • Patent number: 11126854
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed for efficiently identifying objects in videos using deep neural networks and motion information. Using the disclosed technologies, the amount of time required to identify objects in videos can be greatly reduced. Motion information for a video, such as motion vectors, are extracted during the encoding or decoding of the video. The motion information is used to determine whether there is sufficient motion between frames of the video to warrant performing object detection on the frames. If there is insufficient movement from one frame to a subsequent frame, the subsequent frame will not be processed to identify objects contained therein. In this way, object detection will not be performed on video frames that have changed minimally as compared to a previous frame, thereby reducing the amount of time and the number of processing operations required to identify the objects in the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Olgiati, Nitin Singhal, Yuri Natanzon, Vasant Manohar, Davide Modolo
  • Patent number: 11048919
    Abstract: People can be tracked across multiple segments of video data, which can correspond to different scenes in a single video file, or multiple video streams or feeds. An instance of video data can be broken up into segments that can each be analyzed to determine faces and bodies represented therein. The bodies can be analyzed across frames of the segment to determine body tracklets that are consistent across the segment. Associations of faces and bodies can be determined based using relative distances and/or spatial relationships. A subsequent clustering of these associations is performed to attempt to determine consistent associations that correspond to unique individuals. Unique identifiers are determined for each person represented in one or more segments of an instance of video data. Such an approach enables individual representations to be correlated across multiple instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Davide Modolo, Hao Chen, Enrica Maria Filippi, Stephen Gould, Camille Claire Le Men, Andrea Olgiati
  • Patent number: 10949353
    Abstract: A data processing pipeline controller receives a request, from a data iterator associated with a machine learning model, for a data output of a module in the data processing pipeline, wherein each module in the data processing pipeline has an associated cache. The controller determines whether a data output of the module is stored in the associated cache and responsive to the data output being stored in the associated cache, provides the data output from the associated cache to the data iterator without processing data through the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Patrick Tighe, Stephen Gould, Vuong Van Le, Davide Modolo, Nataliya Shapovalova