Patents by Inventor Thang Ba Dinh

Thang Ba Dinh 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: 9437009
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to identifying and tracking objects in images, such as visual tracking in video images in unconstrained environments. According to an aspect, a system includes one or more processors, and computer-readable media configured and arranged to cause the one or more processors to: identify an object in a first image of a sequence of images, identifying one or more regions similar to the object in the first image of the sequence of images, identifying one or more features around the object in the first image of the sequence of images, preventing drift in detection of the object in a second image of the sequence of images based on the one or more regions similar to the object, and verifying the object in the second image of the sequence of images based on the one or more features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Gerard Guy Medioni, Thang Ba Dinh
  • Publication number: 20150286872
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to identifying and tracking objects in images, such as visual tracking in video images in unconstrained environments. According to an aspect, a system includes one or more processors, and computer-readable media configured and arranged to cause the one or more processors to: identify an object in a first image of a sequence of images, identifying one or more regions similar to the object in the first image of the sequence of images, identifying one or more features around the object in the first image of the sequence of images, preventing drift in detection of the object in a second image of the sequence of images based on the one or more regions similar to the object, and verifying the object in the second image of the sequence of images based on the one or more features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Gerard Guy Medioni, Thang Ba Dinh
  • Patent number: 8351649
    Abstract: Technologies for object tracking can include accessing a video feed that captures an object in at least a portion of the video feed; operating a generative tracker to capture appearance variations of the object operating a discriminative tracker to discriminate the object from the object's background, where operating the discriminative tracker can include using a sliding window to process data from the video feed, and advancing the sliding window to focus the discriminative tracker on recent appearance variations of the object; training the generative tracker and the discriminative tracker based on the video feed, where the training can include updating the generative tracker based on an output of the discriminative tracker, and updating the discriminative tracker based on an output of the generative tracker; and tracking the object with information based on an output from the generative tracker and an output from the discriminative tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Gerard Medioni, Qian Yu, Thang Ba Dinh
  • Publication number: 20120321128
    Abstract: Technologies for object tracking can include accessing a video feed that captures an object in at least a portion of the video feed; operating a generative tracker to capture appearance variations of the object operating a discriminative tracker to discriminate the object from the object's background, where operating the discriminative tracker can include using a sliding window to process data from the video feed, and advancing the sliding window to focus the discriminative tracker on recent appearance variations of the object; training the generative tracker and the discriminative tracker based on the video feed, where the training can include updating the generative tracker based on an output of the discriminative tracker, and updating the discriminative tracker based on an output of the generative tracker; and tracking the object with information based on an output from the generative tracker and an output from the discriminative tracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: GERARD MEDIONI, QIAN YU, THANG BA DINH