Patents by Inventor Fudong Chi
Fudong Chi 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: 12536775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 19, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignees: Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc, Hohai UniversityInventors: Hongqi Ma, Haibin Xiao, Yingchi Mao, Fudong Chi, Rongzhi Qi, Bohui Pang, Xiaofeng Zhou, Hao Chen, Jiyuan Yu, Huan Zhao
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Patent number: 12536648Abstract: Disclosed is an intelligent recognition method for a time sequence image of a concrete dam defect. The method includes: extracting a feature sequence of the time sequence image containing the concrete dam defect; matching a located defect with a real defect by using an objective function; adding a loss term based on a tight sensing intersection-over-union to a loss function of a model so as to pay attention to integrity of a defect sequence and improve accuracy; and extracting a defect feature and recognizing a defect type after completing defect location. According to the present disclosure, the time sequence image of the concrete dam defect is detected effectively, so that a defect in a long image sequence can be located and the defect type can be recognized accurately.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignees: Hohai University, Huaneng Lanceng River Hydropower IncInventors: Hongqi Ma, Hua Zhou, Yingchi Mao, Fudong Chi, Xiaofeng Zhou, Xuexing Cao, Rongzhi Qi, Hao Chen, Bin Tan, Bingbing Nie
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Patent number: 12493752Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: December 9, 2025Assignees: 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
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Publication number: 20250245390Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2025Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicants: HUANENG LANCANG RIVER HYDROPOWER INC., HOHAI UNIVERSITYInventors: 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
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Patent number: 12270727Abstract: The present disclosure provides an underwater detection method for contact leakage of a tunnel joint of a dam culvert, including: obtaining an underwater image sequence of the culvert by an underwater robot; preprocessing and registering the underwater image sequence; extracting particle information appearing in the underwater image sequence based on the registered underwater image sequence; constructing a three-dimensional fluid velocity distribution map based on the particle information, and determining leakage situation according to the three-dimensional fluid velocity distribution map; and superimposing the three-dimensional fluid velocity distribution map on a preconfigured three-dimensional culvert model, and rendering and displaying it.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteInventors: Kai Zhang, Jinbao Sheng, Yan Xiang, Chengdong Liu, Fudong Chi, Hao Chen, Zhuo Li, Bingbing Nie, Bo Dai, Yakun Wang
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Publication number: 20250044175Abstract: The present disclosure provides an underwater detection method for contact leakage of a tunnel joint of a dam culvert, including: obtaining an underwater image sequence of the culvert by an underwater robot; preprocessing and registering the underwater image sequence; extracting particle information appearing in the underwater image sequence based on the registered underwater image sequence; constructing a three-dimensional fluid velocity distribution map based on the particle information, and determining leakage situation according to the three-dimensional fluid velocity distribution map; and superimposing the three-dimensional fluid velocity distribution map on a preconfigured three-dimensional culvert model, and rendering and displaying it.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteInventors: Kai Zhang, Jinbao Sheng, Yan Xiang, Chengdong Liu, Fudong Chi, Hao Chen, Zhuo Li, Bingbing Nie, Bo Dai, Yakun Wang
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Publication number: 20230401390Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Hua Zhou, Fudong Chi, Yingchi Mao, Hao Chen, Xu Wan, Huan Zhao, Bohui Pang, Jiyuan Yu, Rui Guo, Guangyao Wu, Shunbo Wang
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Patent number: 11842324Abstract: A method for extracting a dam emergency event based on a dual attention mechanism is provided. The method includes: performing data preprocessing, building a dependency graph, building a dual attention network, and filling a document-level argument. The performing data preprocessing includes labeling a dam emergency corpus and encoding sentences. Building a dependency graph includes assisting a model to mine a syntactic relation based on a dependency. Building a dual attention network includes weighing and fusing an attention network based on a graph transformer network (GTN) and capturing key semantic information in the sentence. Filling a document-level argument includes filling a document-level argument by detecting a key sentence and ordering a semantic similarity. The method introduces a dependency and overcomes the long-range dependency problem based on the dual attention mechanism, thus achieving high identification accuracy and reducing a lot of labor costs.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: HOHAI UNIVERSITY, HUANENG LANCANG RIVER HYDROPOWER INC., HUANENG GROUP TECH INNOVATION CENTER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yingchi Mao, Wei Sun, Haibin Xiao, Fudong Chi, Hao Chen, Weiyong Zhan, Fugang Zhao, Han Fang, Xiaofeng Zhou, Chunrui Zhang, Bin Tan, Wenming Xie, Bingbing Nie, Zhixiang Chen, Chunrui Yang
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Publication number: 20230368371Abstract: Disclosed is an intelligent recognition method for a time sequence image of a concrete dam defect. The method includes: extracting a feature sequence of the time sequence image containing the concrete dam defect; matching a located defect with a real defect by using an objective function; adding a loss term based on a tight sensing intersection-over-union to a loss function of a model so as to pay attention to integrity of a defect sequence and improve accuracy; and extracting a defect feature and recognizing a defect type after completing defect location. According to the present disclosure, the time sequence image of the concrete dam defect is detected effectively, so that a defect in a long image sequence can be located and the defect type can be recognized accurately.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Hongqi Ma, Hua Zhou, Yingchi Mao, Fudong Chi, Xiaofeng Zhou, Xuexing Cao, Rongzhi Qi`, Hao Chen, Bin Tan, Bingbing Nie
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Publication number: 20230368500Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Hongqi Ma, Haibin Xiao, Yingchi Mao, Fudong Chi, Rongzhi Qi, Bohui Pang, Xiaofeng Zhou, Hao Chen, Jiyuan Yu, Huan Zhao