Patents by Inventor Sufei FAN

Sufei FAN 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: 9817107
    Abstract: The present invention provides an above-ground building recognition method, including the following steps: (1) taking an infrared image of the ground from the air; (2) performing detection and positioning in the infrared image to determine a suspected target; (3) aiming at the suspected target to perform laser imaging; (4) performing range gating on a laser image to filter out foreground and background interference; and (5) extracting a shape feature of the suspected target from the laser image with interference filtered out, and taking the shape feature as a target matching element to perform matching with a target shape feature template, so as to recognize the target. In the method of the present invention, laser imaging is integrated into infrared imaging target positioning, so that an advantage of a large range of infrared imaging is utilized, and three-dimensional range information of laser imaging is also utilized, thereby effectively improving the precision of positioning a building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Heng Yao, Peng Jiang, Sufei Fan, Yimeng Chen, Wenxuan Ma, Longwei Hao, Zhihui Yang
  • Patent number: 9563939
    Abstract: A de-noising method for remote images of ground buildings using spectrum constraints. The method includes: 1) obtaining a reference image of ground buildings from a remote image database of the ground buildings, performing a Fourier transformation on the reference image to obtain an amplitude spectrum, and performing a threshold segmentation, an erosion operation and a dilation operation successively on the amplitude spectrum to obtain a binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings; and 2) obtaining a real-time image of the ground buildings by a high-speed aircraft, performing a Fourier transformation on the real-time image to obtain a spectrum, filtering the spectrum of the real-time image in frequency domain by the binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings, and performing an inverse Fourier transformation thereon to generate a filtered real-time image of the ground buildings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Zheng Wang, Li He, Li Liu, Xuan Hou, Chuan Zhang, Sufei Fan, Yimeng Chen
  • Patent number: 9557177
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-sensor merging based super-close distance autonomous navigation apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a sensor subsystem, an information merging subsystem, a sensor scanning structure, and an orientation guiding structure, wherein a visible light imaging sensor and an infrared imaging sensor are combined together, and data are acquired by combining a passive measurement mode composed of an optical imaging sensor and an active measurement mode composed of a laser distance measuring sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Sufei Fan, Yimeng Chen, Heng Yao, Zhengtao Li, Zheng Wang, Wei Huang, Zhenghua Huang
  • Publication number: 20160363653
    Abstract: The present invention provides an above-ground building recognition method, including the following steps: (1) taking an infrared image of the ground from the air; (2) performing detection and positioning in the infrared image to determine a suspected target; (3) aiming at the suspected target to perform laser imaging; (4) performing range gating on a laser image to filter out foreground and background interference; and (5) extracting a shape feature of the suspected target from the laser image with interference filtered out, and taking the shape feature as a target matching element to perform matching with a target shape feature template, so as to recognize the target. In the method of the present invention, laser imaging is integrated into infrared imaging target positioning, so that an advantage of a large range of infrared imaging is utilized, and three-dimensional range information of laser imaging is also utilized, thereby effectively improving the precision of positioning a building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Heng YAO, Peng JIANG, Sufei FAN, Yimeng CHEN, Wenxuan MA, Longwei HAO, Zhihui YANG
  • Publication number: 20160363451
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-sensor merging based super-close distance autonomous navigation apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a sensor subsystem, an information merging subsystem, a sensor scanning structure, and an orientation guiding structure, wherein a visible light imaging sensor and an infrared imaging sensor are combined together, and data are acquired by combining a passive measurement mode composed of an optical imaging sensor and an active measurement mode composed of a laser distance measuring sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Sufei FAN, Yimeng CHEN, Heng YAO, Zhengtao LI, Zheng WANG, Wei HUANG, Zhenghua HUANG
  • Patent number: 9460363
    Abstract: A method for estimating a rotation axis and a mass center of a spatial target based on binocular optical flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tianxu Zhang, Sufei Fan, Yimeng Chen, Yayun Zheng, Changsheng Chen, Zheng Wang, Huan Wu, Xudong He
  • Publication number: 20160189349
    Abstract: A de-noising method for remote images of ground buildings using spectrum constraints. The method includes: 1) obtaining a reference image of ground buildings from a remote image database of the ground buildings, performing a Fourier transformation on the reference image to obtain an amplitude spectrum, and performing a threshold segmentation, an erosion operation and a dilation operation successively on the amplitude spectrum to obtain a binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings; and 2) obtaining a real-time image of the ground buildings by a high-speed aircraft, performing a Fourier transformation on the real-time image to obtain a spectrum, filtering the spectrum of the real-time image in frequency domain by the binary template of spectrum of the ground buildings, and performing an inverse Fourier transformation thereon to generate a filtered real-time image of the ground buildings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Zheng WANG, Li HE, Li LIU, Xuan HOU, Chuan ZHANG, Sufei FAN, Yimeng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150242700
    Abstract: A method for estimating a rotation axis and a mass center of a spatial target based on binocular optical flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Tianxu ZHANG, Sufei FAN, Yimeng CHEN, Yayun ZHENG, Changsheng CHEN, Zheng WANG, Huan WU, Xudong HE