Patents by Inventor Xiameng QIN

Xiameng QIN 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: 11881044
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing an image, a device and a storage medium are provided. An implementation of the method includes: acquiring a template image, the template image including at least one region of interest; determining a first feature map corresponding to each region of interest in the template image; acquiring a target image; determining a second feature map of the target image; and determining at least one region of interest in the target image according to the first feature map and the second feature map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chengquan Zhang, Mengyi En, Ju Huang, Qunyi Xie, Xiameng Qin, Kun Yao, Junyu Han, Jingtuo Liu, Errui Ding
  • Publication number: 20240021000
    Abstract: There is provided an image-based information extraction model, method, and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, which relates to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, specifically to fields of deep learning, image processing, computer vision technologies, and is applicable to optical character recognition (OCR) and other scenarios. A specific implementation solution involves: acquiring a to-be-extracted first image and a category of to-be-extracted information; and inputting the first image and the category into a pre-trained information extraction model to perform information extraction on the first image to obtain text information corresponding to the category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiameng QIN, Yulin LI, Xiaoqiang ZHANG, Ju HUANG, Qunyi XIE, Kun YAO
  • Patent number: 11854246
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, device and storage medium for recognizing a bill image may include: performing text detection on a bill image, and determining an attribute information set and a relationship information set of each text box of at least two text boxes in the bill image; determining a type of the text box and an associated text box that has a structural relationship with the text box based on the attribute information set and the relationship information set of the text box; and extracting structured bill data of the bill image, based on the type of the text box and the associated text box that has the structural relationship with the text box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yulin Li, Ju Huang, Xiameng Qin, Junyu Han
  • Publication number: 20230401828
    Abstract: A method for training an image recognition model includes: obtaining a training data set, in which the training data set includes first text images of each vertical category in a non-target scene and second text images of each vertical category in a target scene, and a type of text content involved in the first text images is the same as a type of text content involved in the second text image; training an initial recognition model by using the first text images, to obtain a basic recognition model; and modifying the basic recognition model by using the second text images, to obtain an image recognition model corresponding to the target scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Meina QIAO, Shanshan LIU, Xiameng QIN, Chengquan ZHANG, Kun YAO
  • Patent number: 11775574
    Abstract: A method for visual question answering, a computer device implementing the method and a medium for storing instructions on performing the method are provided. The method includes: acquiring an input image and an input question; constructing a visual graph based on the input image, wherein the visual graph comprises a first node feature and a first edge feature; constructing a question graph based on the input question, wherein the question graph comprises a second node feature and a second edge feature; performing a multimodal fusion on the visual graph and the question graph to obtain an updated visual graph and an updated question graph; determining a question feature based on the input question; determining a fusion feature based on the updated visual graph, the updated question graph and the question feature; and generating a predicted answer for the input image and the input question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yulin Li, Xiameng Qin, Ju Huang, Qunyi Xie, Junyu Han
  • Patent number: 11768876
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for visual question answering, which relates to a field of computer vision and natural language processing. The method includes: acquiring an input image and an input question; constructing a Visual Graph based on the input image, wherein the Visual Graph comprises a Node Feature and an Edge Feature; updating the Node Feature by using the Node Feature and the Edge Feature to obtain an updated Visual Graph; determining a question feature based on the input question; fusing the updated Visual Graph and the question feature to obtain a fused feature; and generating a predicted answer for the input image and the input question based on the fused feature. The present disclosure further provides an apparatus for visual question answering, a computer device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiameng Qin, Yulin Li, Qunyi Xie, Ju Huang, Junyu Han
  • Patent number: 11756170
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for correcting a distorted document image, where the method for correcting a distorted document image includes: obtaining a distorted document image; and inputting the distorted document image into a correction model, and obtaining a corrected image corresponding to the distorted document image; where the correction model is a model obtained by training with a set of image samples as inputs and a corrected image corresponding to each image sample in the set of image samples as an output, and the image samples are distorted. By inputting the distorted document image to be corrected into the correction model, the corrected image corresponding to the distorted document image can be obtained through the correction model, which realizes document image correction end-to-end, improves accuracy of the document image correction, and extends application scenarios of the document image correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: Qunyi Xie, Xiameng Qin, Yulin Li, Junyu Han, Shengxian Zhu
  • Patent number: 11687704
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method, apparatus and electronic device for annotating information of a structured document. A specific implementation is: obtaining a template image of a structured document and at least one piece of annotation information of a field to be filled in the template image, where the annotation information includes attribute value and historical content of the field to be filled, and historical position of the field to be filled in the template image; generating, according to the attribute value of the field to be filled, the historical content of the field to be filled and the historical position of the field to be filled in the template image, target filling information of the field to be filled; obtaining, according to the target filling information of the field to be filled, an image of an annotated structured document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qiaoyi Li, Xiangkai Huang, Yulin Li, Ju Huang, Xiameng Qin, Duohao Qin, Minghao Liu, Junyu Han
  • Publication number: 20230196805
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a character detection method and apparatus, a model training method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The specific implementation is: acquiring a training sample, where the training sample includes a sample image and a marked image, and the marked image is an image obtained by marking a text instance in the sample image; inputting the sample image into a character detection model, to obtain segmented images and image types of the segmented images output by the character detection model, where the image type indicates that the segmented image includes a text instance, or the segmented image does not include a text instance; and adjusting a parameter of the character detection model according to the segmented images, the image types of the segmented images and the marked image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju HUANG, Xiaoqiang ZHANG, Xiameng QIN, Chengquan ZHANG, Kun YAO
  • Publication number: 20230134615
    Abstract: A method of processing a task, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence, in particular to fields of deep learning and computer vision, and may be applied to OCR optical character recognition and other scenarios. The method includes: parsing labeled data to be processed according to a task type identification, to obtain task labeled data, a tag information of the task labeled data is matched with the task type identification, and the task labeled data includes first task labeled data and second task labeled data; training a model using the first task labeled data, to obtain candidate models, the model is determined according to the task type identification; and determining a target model from the candidate models according to a performance evaluation result obtained by performing performance evaluation on the plurality of candidate models using the second task labeled data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Qunyi XIE, Dongdong ZHANG, Xiameng QIN, Mengyi EN, Yangliu XU, Yi CHEN, Ju HUANG, Kun YAO
  • Publication number: 20230106873
    Abstract: A text extraction method and a text extraction model training method are provided. The present disclosure relates to the technical field of artificial intelligence, in particular to the technical field of computer vision. An implementation of the method comprises: obtaining a visual encoding feature of a to-be-detected image; extracting a plurality of sets of multimodal features from the to-be-detected image, wherein each set of multimodal features includes position information of one detection frame extracted from the to-be-detected image, a detection feature in the detection frame and first text information in the detection frame; and obtaining second text information matched with a to-be-extracted attribute based on the visual encoding feature, the to-be-extracted attribute and the plurality of sets of multimodal features, wherein the to-be-extracted attribute is an attribute of text information needing to be extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Xiameng QIN, Xiaoqiang ZHANG, Ju HUANG, Yulin LI, Qunyi XIE, Kun YAO, Junyu HAN
  • Publication number: 20230048495
    Abstract: A method and a platform of generating a document, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to a field of an artificial intelligence technology, in particular to fields of computer vision and deep learning technologies, and may be applied to a text recognition scenario and other scenarios. The method includes: performing a category recognition on a document picture to obtain a target category result; determining a target structured model matched with the target category result; and performing, by using the target structured model, a structure recognition on the document picture to obtain a structure recognition result, so as to generate an electronic document based on the structure recognition result, wherein the structure recognition result includes a field attribute recognition result and a field position recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qunyi XIE, Xiameng QIN, Mengyi EN, Dongdong ZHANG, Ju HUANG, Yangliu XU, Yi CHEN, Kun YAO
  • Publication number: 20230042234
    Abstract: A method for training a model includes: obtaining a scene image, second actual characters in the scene image and a second construct image; obtaining first features and first recognition characters of characters obtained by performing character recognition on the scene image using the model to be trained; obtaining second features of characters obtained by performing character recognition on the second construct image using the training auxiliary model; and obtaining a character recognition model by adjusting model parameters of the model to be trained based on the first recognition characters, the second actual characters, the first features and the second features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yangliu XU, Qunyi Xie, Yi Chen, Xiameng Qin, Chengquan Zhang, Kun Yao
  • Publication number: 20220392242
    Abstract: A method for training a text positioning model includes: obtaining a sample image, where the sample image contains a sample text to be positioned and a text marking box for the sample text; inputting the sample image into a text positioning model to be trained to position the sample text, and outputting a prediction text box for the sample image; obtaining a sample prior anchor box corresponding to the sample image; and adjusting model parameters of the text positioning model based on the sample prior anchor box, the text marking box and the prediction text box, and continuing training the adjusted text positioning model based on a next sample image until model training is completed, to generate a target text positioning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Ju HUANG, Yulin LI, Peng WANG, Qunyi XIE, Xiameng QIN, Kun YAO
  • Publication number: 20220253631
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an image processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence technologies, and particularly to the fields of computer vision technologies, deep learning technologies, or the like. The image processing method includes: acquiring a multi-modal feature of each of at least one text region in an image, the multi-modal feature including features in plural dimensions; performing a global attention processing operation on the multi-modal feature of each text region to obtain a global attention feature of each text region; determining a category of each text region based on the global attention feature of each text region; and constructing structured information based on text content and the category of each text region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yulin LI, Ju HUANG, Qunyi XIE, Xiameng QIN, Chengquan ZHANG, Jingtuo LIU
  • Publication number: 20220148324
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for extracting information about a negotiable instrument, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes inputting a to-be-recognized negotiable instrument into a pretrained deep learning network and obtaining a visual image corresponding to the to-be-recognized negotiable instrument through the deep learning network; matching the visual image corresponding to the to-be-recognized negotiable instrument with a visual image corresponding to each negotiable-instrument template in a preconstructed base template library; and in response to the visual image corresponding to the to-be-recognized negotiable instrument successfully matching a visual image corresponding to one negotiable-instrument template in the base template library, extracting structured information of the to-be-recognized negotiable instrument by using the negotiable-instrument template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiameng QIN, Yulin Li, Ju Huang, Qunyi Xie, Chengquan Zhang, Kun Yao, Jingtuo Liu, Junyu Han
  • Publication number: 20220101642
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for character recognition, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The technical solution includes: obtaining a test sample image and a test sample character both corresponding to a test task; performing fine-tuning on a trained meta-learning model based on the test sample image and the test sample character to obtain a test task model; obtaining a test image corresponding to the test task; and generating a test character corresponding to the test image by inputting the test image into the test task model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Qunyi XIE, Yangliu XU, Xiameng QIN, Chengquan ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220092353
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: acquiring training data, the training data includes training images for a preset vertical type, and the training images include a first training image containing real data of the preset vertical type and a second training image containing virtual data of the preset vertical type ; building a basic model, the basic model includes a deep learning network, and the deep learning network is configured to recognize the training images to extract text data in the training image; and training the basic model by using the training data to obtain the image recognition model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruixue Liu, Xiameng Qin, Mengyi En, Kun Yao, Chengquan Zhang, Shengxian Zhu, Yunhao Li, Junyu Han, Hao Sun
  • Publication number: 20220027611
    Abstract: Provided are an image classification method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium, relating to the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular, to computer vision and deep learning. The method includes inputting a to-be-classified document image into a pretrained neural network and obtaining a feature submap of each text box of the to-be-classified document image by use of the neural network; inputting the feature submap of each text box, a semantic feature corresponding to preobtained text information of each text box and a position feature corresponding to preobtained position information of each text box into a pretrained multimodal feature fusion model and fusing, by use of the multimodal feature fusion model, the three into a multimodal feature corresponding to each text box; and classifying the to-be-classified document image based on the multimodal feature corresponding to each text box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuechen YU, Chengquan ZHANG, Yulin LI, Xiaoqiang ZHANG, Ju HUANG, Xiameng QIN, Kun YAO, Jingtuo LIU, Junyu HAN, Errui DING
  • Publication number: 20210406592
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for visual question answering. The method includes: acquiring an input image and an input question; constructing a visual graph based on the input image, wherein the visual graph comprises a first node feature and a first edge feature; constructing a question graph based on the input question, wherein the question graph comprises a second node feature and a second edge feature; performing a multimodal fusion on the visual graph and the question graph to obtain an updated visual graph and an updated question graph; determining a question feature based on the input question; determining a fusion feature based on the updated visual graph, the updated question graph and the question feature; and generating a predicted answer for the input image and the input question. The present disclosure further provides an apparatus for visual question answering, a computer device and a medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yulin LI, Xiameng QIN, Ju HUANG, Qunyi XIE, Junyu HAN