Patents by Inventor Qirui KE

Qirui KE 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: 11561092
    Abstract: A method for measuring an antenna downtilt angle based on a multi-scale deep semantic segmentation network is disclosed, including: collecting base station antenna data by using an unmanned aerial vehicle, and labeling an acquired antenna image with a labeling tool to make a data set; calling the data set for training and debugging a model; recognizing and detecting a target antenna, performing semantic segmentation on an output image, finally obtaining a target image finally segmented, and calculating a downtilt angle of the target image. The method is highly applicable, cost-effective, and safe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: WUYI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Jihua Zhou, Yueting Wu, Yu Zheng, Ying Xu, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke
  • Patent number: 11428803
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for SAR image data enhancement, and a storage medium. The method includes: processing an SAR target image by electromagnetic simulation to acquire an SAR electromagnetic simulation image; and processing the SAR electromagnetic simulation image and the SAR target image by a generative adversarial network to obtain a set of virtual samples of the SAR target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: WUYI University
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke, Zilu Ying, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Ying Xu
  • Patent number: 11402494
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for end-to-end SAR image recognition, and a storage medium. According to the disclosure, a generative adversarial network is used to enhance data and improve data richness of a SAR image, which is beneficial to subsequent network training; a semantic feature enhancement technology is also introduced to enhance semantic information of a SAR deep feature by a coding-decoding structure, which improves performances of SAR target recognition; and meanwhile, an end-to-end SAR image target recognition model with high integrity for big scenes like the Bay Area is constructed, which is helpful to improve a synthetic aperture radar target recognition model for big scenes like the Bay Area from local optimum to global optimum, increases the stability and generalization ability of the model, reduces the network complexity, and improves the target recognition accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: WUYI University
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke, He Cao, Junying Gan, Ying Xu
  • Patent number: 11402496
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for enhancing sematic features of SAR image oriented small set of samples, comprising: acquiring a sample set of an SAR target image, and performing transfer learning and training on the sample set to obtain a initialized deep neural network of an SAR target image, the sample set comprising an SAR target image and an SAR target virtual image; performing network optimization on the deep neural network by an activation function, and extracting features of the SAR target image by the optimized deep neural network to obtain a feature map; and mapping, by an auto-encoder, the feature map between a feature space and a semantic space to obtain a deep visual feature with an enhanced semantic feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: WUYI University
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke, He Cao
  • Patent number: 11195013
    Abstract: A double attention network (DANet)-based drone patrol and inspection system for coastline floating garbage, including: an image acquisition module configured to shoot a video of a coastline in need of patrol and inspection by using a drone, and obtain an image from the video; a feature extraction module configured to extract shallow features and deep features, fuse the shallow features and the deep features to obtain a shared feature, and finally output a panoramic recognition result; a network training module configured to perform training on the labeled image so that the network can recognize the coastline and floating garbage; and a path correction module configured to adjust a flying direction of the drone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Wuyi University
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Yihang Zhi, Qirui Ke, Cuilin Yu, Wenlve Zhou, Zilu Ying, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Yanyang Liang, Chaoyun Mai, Chuanbo Qin, Ying Xu
  • Patent number: 11145089
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring an antenna downtilt based on a multi-scale detection algorithm, including: capturing an image of an antenna using an unmanned aerial vehicle, and returning data to a server in real time; obtaining a ground truth box where the antenna is located by performing the multi-scale detection algorithm of a server; segmenting the ground truth box based on an antenna target segmentation algorithm of the server; and obtaining an antenna downtilt angle based on an antenna downtilt measurement algorithm of the server and determining whether the antenna properly functions. This method avoids the danger of tower worker climbing, is fast and accurate, saves labor costs and time, and ensures the measurement of an antenna downtilt to be smoother.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Wuyi University
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Yihang Zhi, Huixin Guan, Ying Xu, Junying Gan, Tianlei Wang, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke
  • Patent number: 11145082
    Abstract: A method for measuring an antenna downtilt angle based on a deep instance segmentation network is disclosed, including: shooting an omni-directional antenna video using a drone; and transmitting the antenna video to a server in real time, and the server measuring an antenna downtilt angle in real time using a deep learning algorithm, the deep learning algorithm includes: a feature extraction network module for acquiring an antenna feature image; an instance segmentation module for binary segmentation of an antenna image and the background to distinguish antenna image pixels from background pixels; an antenna candidate box module for identifying and detecting the antenna image, acquiring an antenna candidate box and determining an antenna calibration box therefrom; and an antenna downtilt angle measuring module for measuring an antenna downtilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Wuyi University
    Inventors: Yueting Wu, Yikui Zhai, Yu Zheng, Jihua Zhou, Tianlei Wang, Ying Xu, Junying Gan, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke
  • Patent number: 11074707
    Abstract: A method and system for mobile communication base station antenna measurement is disclosed. The method comprises steps of: acquiring a set of images containing antennas of a base station; processing the set of images with a model based on instance segmentation network, and generating visualized images corresponding to the set of images of antennas; calculating, from the visualized images, the quantity of antennas of the base station and separating data for each antenna; measuring parameters of each antenna by data fitting. The system comprises a processor and a memory storing program instructions thereon, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to perform the steps of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: WUYI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Qirui Ke, Junying Gan, Wenbo Deng, Ying Xu, Junying Zeng, Zilu Ying, Wenlue Zhou, Yihang Zhi, Xi Wu
  • Patent number: 11074435
    Abstract: A method for predicting a face beauty grade includes the following steps of: acquiring a beautiful face image of a face beauty database, preprocessing the beautiful face image, and extracting a beauty feature vector of the beautiful face image, the preprocessing unifying data of the beautiful face image; recognizing continuous features of samples of the same type in a feature space by using a bionic pattern recognition model, and classifying the beauty feature vector to obtain a face beauty grade prediction model; and collecting a face image to be recognized, and inputting the face image to be recognized into the face beauty grade prediction model to predict a face beauty grade and obtain the beauty grade of the face image to be recognized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: WUYI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Cuilin Yu, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Wenlue Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210224512
    Abstract: A double attention network (DANet)-based drone patrol and inspection system for coastline floating garbage, including: an image acquisition module configured to shoot a video of a coastline in need of patrol and inspection by using a drone, and obtain an image from the video; a feature extraction module configured to extract shallow features and deep features, fuse the shallow features and the deep features to obtain a shared feature, and finally output a panoramic recognition result; a network training module configured to perform training on the labeled image so that the network can recognize the coastline and floating garbage; and a path correction module configured to adjust a flying direction of the drone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Yikui ZHAI, Yihang ZHI, Qirui KE, Cuilin YU, Wenlve ZHOU, Zilu YING, Junying GAN, Junying ZENG, Yanyang LIANG, Chaoyun MAI, Chuanbo QIN, Ying XU
  • Publication number: 20210215481
    Abstract: A method for measuring an antenna downtilt angle based on a multi-scale deep semantic segmentation network is disclosed, including: collecting base station antenna data by using an unmanned aerial vehicle, and labeling an acquired antenna image with a labeling tool to make a data set; calling the data set for training and debugging a model; recognizing and detecting a target antenna, performing semantic segmentation on an output image, finally obtaining a target image finally segmented, and calculating a downtilt angle of the target image. The method is highly applicable, cost-effective, and safe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Yikui ZHAI, Jihua ZHOU, Yueting WU, Yu ZHENG, Ying XU, Junying GAN, Junying ZENG, Wenbo DENG, Qirui KE
  • Patent number: 11017275
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for multi-scale SAR image recognition based on attention mechanism. According to the method, a whole image recognition network is adjusted by training a SAR training image by an attention prediction subnet, a region-of-interest positioning subnet and an image classification subnet in combination with a network loss, which greatly improves a network performance; and in addition, an attention prediction map is generated by attention mechanism to position a most prominent feature part in the SAR image, which greatly eliminates a redundancy of image features in a machine vision, effectively determines a region-of-interest, reduces interference of image noises, greatly reduces an image processing time, improves a target recognition accuracy, is beneficial to next target positioning, and has a significant improvement on a network recognition speed integrally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: WUYI University
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Ying Xu, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Zilu Ying, Qirui Ke, Wenlue Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210142519
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring an antenna downtilt based on a multi-scale detection algorithm, including: capturing an image of an antenna using an unmanned aerial vehicle, and returning data to a server in real time; obtaining a ground truth box where the antenna is located by performing the multi-scale detection algorithm of a server; segmenting the ground truth box based on an antenna target segmentation algorithm of the server; and obtaining an antenna downtilt angle based on an antenna downtilt measurement algorithm of the server and determining whether the antenna properly functions. This method avoids the danger of tower worker climbing, is fast and accurate, saves labor costs and time, and ensures the measurement of an antenna downtilt to be smoother.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Yikui ZHAI, Yihang ZHI, Huixin GUAN, Ying XU, Junying GAN, Tianlei WANG, Wenbo DENG, Qirui KE
  • Publication number: 20210056722
    Abstract: A method for measuring an antenna downtilt angle based on a deep instance segmentation network is disclosed, including: shooting an omni-directional antenna video using a drone; and transmitting the antenna video to a server in real time, and the server measuring an antenna downtilt angle in real time using a deep learning algorithm, the deep learning algorithm includes: a feature extraction network module for acquiring an antenna feature image; an instance segmentation module for binary segmentation of an antenna image and the background to distinguish antenna image pixels from background pixels; an antenna candidate box module for identifying and detecting the antenna image, acquiring an antenna candidate box and determining an antenna calibration box therefrom; and an antenna downtilt angle measuring module for measuring an antenna downtilt angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yueting WU, Yikui ZHAI, Yu ZHENG, Jihua ZHOU, Tianlei WANG, Ying XU, Junying GAN, Wenbo DENG, Qirui KE
  • Publication number: 20210049782
    Abstract: A method and system for mobile communication base station antenna measurement is disclosed. The method comprises steps of: acquiring a set of images containing antennas of a base station; processing the set of images with a model based on instance segmentation network, and generating visualized images corresponding to the set of images of antennas; calculating, from the visualized images, the quantity of antennas of the base station and separating data for each antenna; measuring parameters of each antenna by data fitting. The system comprises a processor and a memory storing program instructions thereon, the program instructions executable by the processor to cause the system to perform the steps of the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: WUYI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yikui ZHAI, Qirui KE, Junying GAN, Wenbo DENG, Ying XU, Junying ZENG, Zilu YING, Wenlue ZHOU, Yihang ZHI, Xi WU
  • Publication number: 20210012146
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for multi-scale SAR image recognition based on attention mechanism. According to the method, a whole image recognition network is adjusted by training a SAR training image by an attention prediction subnet, a region-of-interest positioning subnet and an image classification subnet in combination with a network loss, which greatly improves a network performance; and in addition, an attention prediction map is generated by attention mechanism to position a most prominent feature part in the SAR image, which greatly eliminates a redundancy of image features in a machine vision, effectively determines a region-of-interest, reduces interference of image noises, greatly reduces an image processing time, improves a target recognition accuracy, is beneficial to next target positioning, and has a significant improvement on a network recognition speed integrally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Ying Xu, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Zilu Ying, Qirui Ke, Wenlue Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210004570
    Abstract: A method for predicting a face beauty grade includes the following steps of: acquiring a beautiful face image of a face beauty database, preprocessing the beautiful face image, and extracting a beauty feature vector of the beautiful face image, the preprocessing unifying data of the beautiful face image; recognizing continuous features of samples of the same type in a feature space by using a bionic pattern recognition model, and classifying the beauty feature vector to obtain a face beauty grade prediction model; and collecting a face image to be recognized, and inputting the face image to be recognized into the face beauty grade prediction model to predict a face beauty grade and obtain the beauty grade of the face image to be recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: WUYI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yikui ZHAI, Cuilin YU, Wenbo DENG, Qirui KE, Junying GAN, Junying ZENG, Wenlue ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210003700
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for enhancing sematic features of SAR image oriented small set of samples, comprising: acquiring a sample set of an SAR target image, and performing transfer learning and training on the sample set to obtain a initialized deep neural network of an SAR target image, the sample set comprising an SAR target image and an SAR target virtual image; performing network optimization on the deep neural network by an activation function, and extracting features of the SAR target image by the optimized deep neural network to obtain a feature map; and mapping, by an auto-encoder, the feature map between a feature space and a semantic space to obtain a deep visual feature with an enhanced semantic feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke, He Cao
  • Publication number: 20210003697
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for end-to-end SAR image recognition, and a storage medium. According to the disclosure, a generative adversarial network is used to enhance data and improve data richness of a SAR image, which is beneficial to subsequent network training; a semantic feature enhancement technology is also introduced to enhance semantic information of a SAR deep feature by a coding-decoding structure, which improves performances of SAR target recognition; and meanwhile, an end-to-end SAR image target recognition model with high integrity for big scenes like the Bay Area is constructed, which is helpful to improve a synthetic aperture radar target recognition model for big scenes like the Bay Area from local optimum to global optimum, increases the stability and generalization ability of the model, reduces the network complexity, and improves the target recognition accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke, He Cao, Junying Gan, Ying Xu
  • Publication number: 20210003699
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for SAR image data enhancement, and a storage medium. The method includes: processing an SAR target image by electromagnetic simulation to acquire an SAR electromagnetic simulation image; and processing the SAR electromagnetic simulation image and the SAR target image by a generative adversarial network to obtain a set of virtual samples of the SAR target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Yikui Zhai, Wenbo Deng, Qirui Ke, Zilu Ying, Junying Gan, Junying Zeng, Ying Xu