Patents by Inventor Zhe Lin

Zhe Lin 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: 20240037717
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for generating neural network based perceptual artifact segmentations in synthetic digital image content. The disclosed system utilizing neural networks to detect perceptual artifacts in digital images in connection with generating or modifying digital images. The disclosed system determines a digital image including one or more synthetically modified portions. The disclosed system utilizes an artifact segmentation machine-learning model to detect perceptual artifacts in the synthetically modified portion(s). The artifact segmentation machine-learning model is trained to detect perceptual artifacts based on labeled artifact regions of synthetic training digital images. Additionally, the disclosed system utilizes the artifact segmentation machine-learning model in an iterative inpainting process. The disclosed system utilizes one or more digital image inpainting models to inpaint in a digital image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Sohrab Amirghodsi, Lingzhi Zhang, Zhe Lin, Elya Shechtman, Yuqian Zhou, Connelly Barnes
  • Patent number: 11886494
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an object selection system that automatically detects and selects objects in a digital image based on natural language-based inputs. For instance, the object selection system can utilize natural language processing tools to detect objects and their corresponding relationships within natural language object selection queries. For example, the object selection system can determine alternative object terms for unrecognized objects in a natural language object selection query. As another example, the object selection system can determine multiple types of relationships between objects in a natural language object selection query and utilize different object relationship models to select the requested query object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Wei Tuh Chang, Khoi Pham, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding
  • Publication number: 20240028871
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for performing wire segmentation of images using machine learning. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving an input image, generating, by a first trained neural network model, a global probability map representation of the input image indicating a probability value of each pixel including a representation of wires, and identifying regions of the input image indicated as including the representation of wires. The disclosed systems and methods further comprise, for each region from the identified regions, concatenating the region and information from the global probability map to create a concatenated input, and generating, by a second trained neural network model, a local probability map representation of the region based on the concatenated input, indicating pixels of the region including representations of wires. The disclosed systems and methods further comprise aggregating local probability maps for each region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mang Tik CHIU, Connelly BARNES, Zijun WEI, Zhe LIN, Yuqian ZHOU, Xuaner ZHANG, Sohrab AMIRGHODSI, Florian KAINZ, Elya SHECHTMAN
  • Patent number: 11875510
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that utilizes a neural network having a hierarchy of hierarchical point-wise refining blocks to generate refined segmentation masks for high-resolution digital visual media items. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a segmentation refinement neural network having an encoder and a recursive decoder to generate the refined segmentation masks. The recursive decoder includes a deconvolution branch for generating feature maps and a refinement branch for generating and refining segmentation masks. In particular, in some cases, the refinement branch includes a hierarchy of hierarchical point-wise refining blocks that recursively refine a segmentation mask generated for a digital visual media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Yilin Wang, Chenglin Yang, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 11875260
    Abstract: The architectural complexity of a neural network is reduced by selectively pruning channels. A cost metric for a convolution layer is determined. The cost metric indicates a resource cost per channel for the channels of the layer. Training the neural network includes, for channels of the layer, updating a channel-scaling coefficient based on the cost metric. The channel-scaling coefficient linearly scales the output of the channel. A constant channel is identified based on the channel-scaling coefficients. The neural network is updated by pruning the constant channel. Model weights are updated via a stochastic gradient descent of a training loss function evaluated on training data. The channel-scaling coefficients are updated via an iterative-thresholding algorithm that penalizes a batch normalization loss function based on the cost metric for the layer and a norm of the channel-scaling coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Jianbo Ye
  • Patent number: 11868889
    Abstract: In implementations of object detection in images, object detectors are trained using heterogeneous training datasets. A first training dataset is used to train an image tagging network to determine an attention map of an input image for a target concept. A second training dataset is used to train a conditional detection network that accepts as conditional inputs the attention map and a word embedding of the target concept. Despite the conditional detection network being trained with a training dataset having a small number of seen classes (e.g., classes in a training dataset), it generalizes to novel, unseen classes by concept conditioning, since the target concept propagates through the conditional detection network via the conditional inputs, thus influencing classification and region proposal. Hence, classes of objects that can be detected are expanded, without the need to scale training databases to include additional classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Xiaohui Shen, Mingyang Ling, Jianming Zhang, Jason Wen Yong Kuen
  • Publication number: 20240004924
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that implements related image search and image modification processes using various search engines and a consolidated graphical user interface. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive an input digital image and search input and further modify the input digital image using the image search results retrieved in response to the search input. In some cases, the search input includes a multi-modal search input having multiple queries (e.g., an image query and a text query), and the disclosed systems retrieve the image search results utilizing a weighted combination of the queries. In some implementations, the disclosed systems generate an input embedding for the search input (e.g., the multi-modal search input) and retrieve the image search results using the input embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Darshan Prasad
  • Publication number: 20240005574
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for transferring global style features between digital images utilizing one or more machine learning models or neural networks. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a request to transfer a global style from a source digital image to a target digital image, identify at least one target object within the target digital image, and transfer the global style from the source digital image to the target digital image while maintaining an object style of the at least one target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen, Darshan Prasad, Zhihong Ding
  • Patent number: 11858892
    Abstract: A process of removing methanol, CO2, or both from a hydrocarbon stream is described. The process uses an adsorbent comprising binderless type 3A zeolite. The adsorbent has high methanol removal capacity and low olefin co-adsorption capacity, as well as low reactivity in an olefin stream. This allows reduced adsorbent loading while maintaining downstream catalyst performance and product quality. The adsorbent comprises a type 3A zeolite comprising less than 5% of a binder and an ion exchange ratio of 30% to 70%. The adsorption process can obtain an outlet methanol content of 1 ppmw or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Qing Xu, Zhe Lin, Lu Wang
  • Publication number: 20230419571
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that implements related image search and image modification processes using various search engines and a consolidated graphical user interface. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive an input digital image and search input and further modify the input digital image using the image search results retrieved in response to the search input. In some cases, the search input includes a multi-modal search input having multiple queries (e.g., an image query and a text query), and the disclosed systems retrieve the image search results utilizing a weighted combination of the queries. In some implementations, the disclosed systems generate an input embedding for the search input (e.g., the multi-modal search input) and retrieve the image search results using the input embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin, Scott Cohen, Kevin Gary Smith
  • Publication number: 20230418861
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that implements related image search and image modification processes using various search engines and a consolidated graphical user interface. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive an input digital image and search input and further modify the input digital image using the image search results retrieved in response to the search input. In some cases, the search input includes a multi-modal search input having multiple queries (e.g., an image query and a text query), and the disclosed systems retrieve the image search results utilizing a weighted combination of the queries. In some implementations, the disclosed systems generate an input embedding for the search input (e.g., the multi-modal search input) and retrieve the image search results using the input embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Zhifei Zhang, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 11854244
    Abstract: A panoptic labeling system includes a modified panoptic labeling neural network (“modified PLNN”) that is trained to generate labels for pixels in an input image. The panoptic labeling system generates modified training images by combining training images with mask instances from annotated images. The modified PLNN determines a set of labels representing categories of objects depicted in the modified training images. The modified PLNN also determines a subset of the labels representing categories of objects depicted in the input image. For each mask pixel in a modified training image, the modified PLNN calculates a probability indicating whether the mask pixel has the same label as an object pixel. The modified PLNN generates a mask label for each mask pixel, based on the probability. The panoptic labeling system provides the mask label to, for example, a digital graphics editing system that uses the labels to complete an infill operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Sohrab Amirghodsi, Zhe Lin, Yilin Wang, Tianshu Yu, Connelly Barnes, Elya Shechtman
  • Patent number: 11854119
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for automatic object re-colorization in images. In some embodiments, a method of automatic object re-colorization includes receiving a request to recolor an object in an image, the request including an object identifier and a color identifier, identifying an object in the image associated with the object identifier, generating a mask corresponding to the object in the image, providing the image, the mask, and the color identifier to a color transformer network, the color transformer network trained to recolor objects in input images, and generating, by the color transformer network, a recolored image, wherein the object in the recolored image has been recolored to a color corresponding to the color identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Siavash Khodadadeh, Zhe Lin, Shabnam Ghadar, Saeid Motiian, Richard Zhang, Ratheesh Kalarot, Baldo Faieta
  • Patent number: 11853348
    Abstract: Multidimensional digital content search techniques are described that support an ability of a computing device to perform search with increased granularity and flexibility over conventional techniques. In one example, a control is implemented by a computing device that defines a multidimensional (e.g., two-dimensional) continuous space. Locations in the multidimensional continuous space are usable to different search criteria through different weights applied to the criteria associated with the axes. Therefore, user interaction with this control may be used to define a location and corresponding coordinates that may act as weights to the search criteria in order to perform a search of digital content through use of a single user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Akhilesh Kumar, Zhe Lin, Ratheesh Kalarot, Jinrong Xie, Jianming Zhang, Baldo Antonio Faieta, Alex Charles Filipkowski
  • Patent number: 11854206
    Abstract: A Video Semantic Segmentation System (VSSS) is disclosed that performs accurate and fast semantic segmentation of videos using a set of temporally distributed neural networks. The VSSS receives as input a video signal comprising a contiguous sequence of temporally-related video frames. The VSSS extracts features from the video frames in the contiguous sequence and based upon the extracted features, selects, from a set of labels, a label to be associated with each pixel of each video frame in the video signal. In certain embodiments, a set of multiple neural networks are used to extract the features to be used for video segmentation and the extraction of features is distributed among the multiple neural networks in the set. A strong feature representation representing the entirety of the features is produced for each video frame in the sequence of video frames by aggregating the output features extracted by the multiple neural networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Federico Perazzi, Zhe Lin, Ping Hu, Oliver Wang, Fabian David Caba Heilbron
  • Publication number: 20230401827
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image segmentation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive a training image and a caption for the training image, wherein the caption includes text describing an object in the training image; generate a pseudo mask for the object using a teacher network based on the text describing the object; generate a mask for the object using a student network; compute noise information for the training image using a noise estimation network; and update parameters of the student network based on the mask, the pseudo mask, and the noise information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jason Wen Yong Kuen, Dat Ba Huynh, Zhe Lin, Jiuxiang Gu
  • Publication number: 20230401716
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image segmentation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an image depicting an object; generate image features for the image by performing a convolutional self-attention operation that outputs a plurality of attention-weighted values for a convolutional kernel applied at a position of a sliding window on the image; and generate label data that identifies the object based on the image features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yilin Wang, Chenglin Yang, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang, Zijun Wei, Zhe Lin
  • Publication number: 20230398039
    Abstract: A medication management device that enables healthcare professionals and their families to immediately ascertain whether a patient has taken the medicine he/she should have taken at the correct time. The present invention with holding unit 12 capable of holding the packaged medicine 32, detection unit 15 capable of detecting changes in the state of holding unit 12, and judgment unit 16 to determine that medicine 32 has been removed when detection unit 15 detects a change in the state of holding unit 12, enables healthcare professionals and their families to immediately ascertain whether a patient has taken the medication he/she should have taken at the correct time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Takuto SAKO, Zhe LIN, Kazumichi BANDO, Satoshi MOCHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230401717
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image segmentation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an image depicting an object; generate image features for the image by performing an atrous self-attention operation based on a plurality of dilation rates for a convolutional kernel applied at a position of a sliding window on the image; and generate label data that identifies the object based on the image features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Yilin Wang, Chenglin Yang, Jianming Zhang, He Zhang, Zijun Wei, Zhe Lin
  • Patent number: 11842165
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a context-based translation application generates a co-occurrence data structure for a target language describing co-occurrences of target language words and source language words. The context-based translation application receives an input tag for an input image in the source language to be translated into the target language. The context-based translation application obtains multiple candidate translations in the target language for the input tag and determines a translated tag from the multiple candidate translations based on the co-occurrence data structure. The context-based translation application further associates the translated tag with the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Zhe Lin