Patents by Inventor Shiyi Lan

Shiyi Lan 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).

  • Publication number: 20250029409
    Abstract: Approaches are disclosed herein for an automatic segmentation labeling system that identifies objects for potential open-class categories and generates segmentation masks for objects. The disclosed system may use a training pipeline that trains two segmentation models. The training pipeline may take, as input, a set of images with bounding boxes and class labels. The set of images may be fed into a first segmentation network with the bounding boxes used as ground truth for weak supervision. The first segmentation network may be trained to generate pseudo segmentation masks. In a second stage, the trained first segmentation network is used to generate pseudo masks for a set of input images. The generated pseudo masks are provided as input, along with the corresponding images, to a second segmentation network to be used as a type of ground truth data for training the second segmentation network to generate high-quality segmentation masks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Ramanathan Arunachahalam, Farzin Aghdasi, Zhiding Yu, Shiyi Lan
  • Publication number: 20240416963
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques of using one or more machine learning processes (e.g., neural network(s)) to predict occupancy using an image input. In at least one embodiment, image data is processed using a neural network to predict occupancy in a 3D voxel space. In at least one embodiment, image data is processed using a neural network to detect objects in a 3D space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiqi Li, Zhiding Yu, David Austin, Shiyi Lan, Jan Kautz, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez
  • Publication number: 20240312219
    Abstract: In various examples, temporal-based perception for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described. Systems and methods are disclosed that use a machine learning model (MLM) to intrinsically fuse feature maps associated with different sensors and different instances in time. To generate a feature map, image data generated using image sensors (e.g., cameras) located around a vehicle are processed using a MLM that is trained to generate the feature map. The MLM may then fuse the feature maps in order to generate a final feature map associated with a current instance in time. The feature maps associated with the previous instances in time may be preprocessed using one or more layers of the MLM, where the one or more layers are associated with performing temporal transformation before the fusion is performed. The MLM may then use the final feature map to generate one or more outputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Jiwoong Choi, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez, Shiyi Lan, Yashar Asgarieh, Zhiding Yu
  • Publication number: 20240221166
    Abstract: Video instance segmentation is a computer vision task that aims to detect, segment, and track objects continuously in videos. It can be used in numerous real-world applications, such as video editing, three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction, 3D navigation (e.g. for autonomous driving and/or robotics), and view point estimation. However, current machine learning-based processes employed for video instance segmentation are lacking, particularly because the densely annotated videos needed for supervised training of high-quality models are not readily available and are not easily generated. To address the issues in the prior art, the present disclosure provides point-level supervision for video instance segmentation in a manner that allows the resulting machine learning model to handle any object category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiding Yu, Shuaiyi Huang, De-An Huang, Shiyi Lan, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Jose M. Alvarez Lopez, Anima Anandkumar
  • Publication number: 20240169545
    Abstract: Class agnostic object mask generation uses a vision transformer-based auto-labeling framework requiring only images and object bounding boxes to generate object (segmentation) masks. The generated object masks, images, and object labels may then be used to train instance segmentation models or other neural networks to localize and segment objects with pixel-level accuracy. The generated object masks may supplement or replace conventional human generated annotations. The human generated annotations may be misaligned compared with the object boundaries, resulting in poor quality labeled segmentation masks. In contrast with conventional techniques, the generated object masks are class agnostic and are automatically generated based only on a bounding box image region without relying on either labels or semantic information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Shiyi Lan, Zhiding Yu, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Jose Manuel Alvarez Lopez, Animashree Anandkumar
  • Publication number: 20220261593
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to train one or more neural networks. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are trained to perform segmentation tasks based at least in part on training data comprising bounding box annotations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Zhiding Yu, Shiyi Lan, Chris Choy, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Guilin Liu, Yuke Zhu, Anima Anandkumar