Patents by Inventor Zeynep Akata

Zeynep Akata 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: 11620517
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method are provided for enabling control of a physical system based on a state of the physical system which is inferred from sensor data. The system and method may iteratively infer the state by, in an iteration, obtaining an initial inference of the state using a mathematical model representing a prior knowledge-based modelling of the state, and by applying a learned model to the initial inference of the state and the sensor measurement, wherein the learned model has been learned to minimize an error between initial inferences provided by the mathematical model and a ground truth and to provide a correction value as output for correcting the initial inference of the state of the mathematical model. Output data may be provided to an output device to enable control of the physical system based on the inferred state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Victor Garcia Satorras, Max Welling, Volker Fischer, Zeynep Akata
  • Patent number: 11481649
    Abstract: A system for adapting a base classifier to one or more novel classes. The base classifier classifies an instance into a base class by extracting a feature representation from the instance using a feature extractor and matching it to class representations of the base classes. The base classifier is adapted using training data for the novel classes. Class representations of the novel classes are determined based on feature representations of instances of the novel classes. The class representations of the novel and base classes are then adapted, wherein at least one class representation of a novel class is adapted based on a class representation of a base class and at least one class representation of a base class is adapted based on a class representation of a novel class. The adapted class representations of the base and novel classes are associated with the base classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Xiahan Shi, Martin Schiegg, Leonard Salewski, Max Welling, Zeynep Akata
  • Publication number: 20210012226
    Abstract: A system for adapting a base classifier to one or more novel classes. The base classifier classifies an instance into a base class by extracting a feature representation from the instance using a feature extractor and matching it to class representations of the base classes. The base classifier is adapted using training data for the novel classes. Class representations of the novel classes are determined based on feature representations of instances of the novel classes. The class representations of the novel and base classes are then adapted, wherein at least one class representation of a novel class is adapted based on a class representation of a base class and at least one class representation of a base class is adapted based on a class representation of a novel class. The adapted class representations of the base and novel classes are associated with the base classifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Xiahan Shi, Martin Schiegg, Leonard Salewski, Max Welling, Zeynep Akata
  • Publication number: 20200285962
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method are provided for enabling control of a physical system based on a state of the physical system which is inferred from sensor data. The system and method may iteratively infer the state by, in an iteration, obtaining an initial inference of the state using a mathematical model representing a prior knowledge-based modelling of the state, and by applying a learned model to the initial inference of the state and the sensor measurement, wherein the learned model has been learned to minimize an error between initial inferences provided by the mathematical model and a ground truth and to provide a correction value as output for correcting the initial inference of the state of the mathematical model. Output data may be provided to an output device to enable control of the physical system based on the inferred state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Victor Garcia Satorras, Max Welling, Volker Fischer, Zeynep Akata
  • Patent number: 10331976
    Abstract: In image classification, each class of a set of classes is embedded in an attribute space where each dimension of the attribute space corresponds to a class attribute. The embedding generates a class attribute vector for each class of the set of classes. A set of parameters of a prediction function operating in the attribute space respective to a set of training images annotated with classes of the set of classes is optimized such that the prediction function with the optimized set of parameters optimally predicts the annotated classes for the set of training images. The prediction function with the optimized set of parameters is applied to an input image to generate at least one class label for the input image. The image classification does not include applying a class attribute classifier to the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zeynep Akata, Florent C. Perronnin, Zaid Harchaoui, Cordelia L. Schmid
  • Publication number: 20140376804
    Abstract: In image classification, each class of a set of classes is embedded in an attribute space where each dimension of the attribute space corresponds to a class attribute. The embedding generates a class attribute vector for each class of the set of classes. A set of parameters of a prediction function operating in the attribute space respective to a set of training images annotated with classes of the set of classes is optimized such that the prediction function with the optimized set of parameters optimally predicts the annotated classes for the set of training images. The prediction function with the optimized set of parameters is applied to an input image to generate at least one class label for the input image. The image classification does not include applying a class attribute classifier to the input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Zeynep Akata, Florent C. Perronnin, Zaid Harchaoui, Cordelia L. Schmid