Patents by Inventor Gabriele Moser

Gabriele Moser 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).

  • System and method of crater detection and registration using marked point processes, multiple birth and death methods and region-based analysis
    Patent number: 11308625
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method and system for crater detection in planetary data based on marked point processes (MPP), effective for various object detection tasks in Earth observation, and for planetary image registration. The resulting spatial features are exploited for registration, together with fitness functions based on the MPP energy, on the mean directed Hausdorff distance, and on the mutual information. Two different methods—one based on birth-death processes and region-of-interest analysis, and the other based on graph cuts and decimated wavelets—are included within the present framework. Experimental results confirmed the effectiveness of the present invention in terms of crater detection performance and sub-pixel registration accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Jacqueline J. Le Moigne-Stewart, David Solarna, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico
  • System and method of crater detection and registration using marked point processes, multiple birth and death methods and region-based analysis
    Patent number: 10825182
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method and system for crater detection in planetary data based on marked point processes (MPP), effective for various object detection tasks in Earth observation, and for planetary image registration. The resulting spatial features are exploited for registration, together with fitness functions based on the MPP energy, on the mean directed Hausdorff distance, and on the mutual information. Two different methods—one based on birth-death processes and region-of-interest analysis, and the other based on graph cuts and decimated wavelets—are included within the present framework. Experimental results confirmed the effectiveness of the present invention in terms of crater detection performance and sub-pixel registration accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Jacqueline J. Le Moigne-Stewart, David Solarna, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Serpico, Alberto Gotelli
  • Automatic extraction of planetary image features
    Patent number: 8355579
    Abstract: A method for the extraction of Lunar data and/or planetary features is provided. The feature extraction method can include one or more image processing techniques, including, but not limited to, a watershed segmentation and/or the generalized Hough Transform. According to some embodiments, the feature extraction method can include extracting features, such as, small rocks. According to some embodiments, small rocks can be extracted by applying a watershed segmentation algorithm to the Canny gradient. According to some embodiments, applying a watershed segmentation algorithm to the Canny gradient can allow regions that appear as close contours in the gradient to be segmented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: The United states of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventors: Jacqueline J. LeMoigne-Stewart, Giulia Troglio, Jon A. Benediktsson, Sebastiano B. Serpico, Gabriele Moser