Patents by Inventor Georg Heigold
Georg Heigold 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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Publication number: 20250005797Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
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Publication number: 20250005798Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
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Publication number: 20240428587Abstract: A computer-implemented method for classifying video data with improved accuracy includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, video data comprising a plurality of video frames; extracting, by the computing system, a plurality of video tokens from the video data, the plurality of video tokens comprising a representation of spatiotemporal information in the video data; providing, by the computing system, the plurality of video tokens as input to a video understanding model, the video understanding model comprising a video transformer encoder model; and receiving, by the computing system, a classification output from the video understanding model.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Georg Heigold, Chen Sun, Mario Lucic, Cordelia Luise Schmid
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Publication number: 20240428586Abstract: A computer-implemented method for classifying video data with improved accuracy includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, video data comprising a plurality of video frames; extracting, by the computing system, a plurality of spatiotemporal representations from the video data, the plurality of spatiotemporal representations comprising a representation of spatiotemporal information in the video data; providing, by the computing system, the plurality of spatiotemporal representations as input to a video understanding model, the video understanding model comprising a video transformer encoder model; and receiving, by the computing system, a classification output from the video understanding model.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Georg Heigold, Chen Sun, Mario Lucic, Cordelia Luise Schmid
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Patent number: 12148433Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
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Patent number: 12125247Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
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Patent number: 12112538Abstract: A computer-implemented method for classifying video data with improved accuracy includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, video data comprising a plurality of video frames; extracting, by the computing system, a plurality of video tokens from the video data, the plurality of video tokens comprising a representation of spatiotemporal information in the video data; providing, by the computing system, the plurality of video tokens as input to a video understanding model, the video understanding model comprising a video transformer encoder model; and receiving, by the computing system, a classification output from the video understanding model.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Georg Heigold, Chen Sun, Mario Lucic, Cordelia Luise Schmid
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Patent number: 12073823Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
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Patent number: 11983903Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
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Patent number: 11961525Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
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Publication number: 20240087559Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
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Publication number: 20240062426Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
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Publication number: 20240038245Abstract: This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques related to speaker verification, including (i) training a neural network for a speaker verification model, (ii) enrolling users at a client device, and (iii) verifying identities of users based on characteristics of the users' voices. Some implementations include a computer-implemented method. The method can include receiving, at a computing device, data that characterizes an utterance of a user of the computing device. A speaker representation can be generated, at the computing device, for the utterance using a neural network on the computing device. The neural network can be trained based on a plurality of training samples that each: (i) include data that characterizes a first utterance and data that characterizes one or more second utterances, and (ii) are labeled as a matching speakers sample or a non-matching speakers sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Samuel Bengio, Ignacio Lopez Moreno
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Patent number: 11854534Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
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Publication number: 20230017072Abstract: A computer-implemented method for classifying video data with improved accuracy includes obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, video data comprising a plurality of video frames; extracting, by the computing system, a plurality of video tokens from the video data, the plurality of video tokens comprising a representation of spatiotemporal information in the video data; providing, by the computing system, the plurality of video tokens as input to a video understanding model, the video understanding model comprising a video transformer encoder model; and receiving, by the computing system, a classification output from the video understanding model.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Georg Heigold, Chen Sun, Mario Lucic, Cordelia Luise Schmid
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Patent number: 11557277Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. VanHoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani
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Publication number: 20220383628Abstract: A method includes obtaining first feature vectors and second feature vectors representing contents of a first and second image frame, respectively, of an input video. The method may also include generating, based on the first feature vectors, first slot vectors, where each slot vector represents attributes of a corresponding entity as represented in the first image frame, and generating, based on the first slot vectors, predicted slot vectors including a corresponding predicted slot vector that represents a transition of the attributes of the corresponding entity from the first to the second image frame. The method may additionally include generating, based on the predicted slot vectors and the second feature vectors, second slot vectors including a corresponding slot vector that represents the attributes of the corresponding entity as represented in the second image frame, and determining an output based on the predicted slot vectors or the second slot vectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Thomas Kipf, Gamaleldin Elsayed, Aravindh Mahendran, Austin Charles Stone, Sara Sabour Rouh Aghdam, Georg Heigold, Rico Jonschkowski, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Klaus Greff
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Publication number: 20220108478Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using self-attention based neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining one or more images comprising a plurality of pixels; determining, for each image of the one or more images, a plurality of image patches of the image, wherein each image patch comprises a different subset of the pixels of the image; processing, for each image of the one or more images, the corresponding plurality of image patches to generate an input sequence comprising a respective input element at each of a plurality of input positions, wherein a plurality of the input elements correspond to respective different image patches; and processing the input sequences using a neural network to generate a network output that characterizes the one or more images, wherein the neural network comprises one or more self-attention neural network layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Neil Matthew Tinmouth Houlsby, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob D. Uszkoreit, Xiaohua Zhai, Georg Heigold, Lucas Klaus Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Matthias Johannes Lorenz Minderer, Dirk Weissenborn, Mostafa Dehghani, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Thomas Unterthiner
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Publication number: 20220108686Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Erik McDermott, Vincent O. VanHoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A.U. Bacchiani
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Patent number: 11227582Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining, by a first sequence-training speech model, a first batch of training frames that represent speech features of first training utterances; obtaining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more first neural network parameters; determining, by the first sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized first neural network parameters based on (i) the first batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more first neural network parameters; obtaining, by a second sequence-training speech model, a second batch of training frames that represent speech features of second training utterances; obtaining one or more second neural network parameters; and determining, by the second sequence-training speech model, one or more optimized second neural network parameters based on (i) the second batch of training frames and (ii) the one or more second neural network parameters.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Georg Heigold, Erik Mcdermott, Vincent O. Vanhoucke, Andrew W. Senior, Michiel A. U. Bacchiani