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).

  • Patent number: 12141952
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for detecting and classifying an exposure defect in an image using neural networks trained via a limited amount of labeled training images. An image may be applied to a first neural network to determine whether the images includes an exposure defect. Detected defective image may be applied to a second neural network to determine an exposure defect classification for the image. The exposure defect classification can includes severe underexposure, medium underexposure, mild underexposure, mild overexposure, medium overexposure, severe overexposure, and/or the like. The image may be presented to a user along with the exposure defect classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Akhilesh Kumar, Zhe Lin, William Lawrence Marino
  • Publication number: 20240371007
    Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments are directed to refining or correcting individual semantic segmentation/instance segmentation masks that have already been produced by baseline models in order to generate a final coherent panoptic segmentation map. Specifically, a refinement model, such as an encoder-decoder-based neural network, generates or predicts various data objects, such as foreground masks, bounding box offset maps, center maps, center offset maps, and coordinate convolution. This, among other functionality described herein, improves the inaccuracies and computing resource consumption of existing technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Zhe LIN, Simon Su Chen, Jason wen-young Kuen, Bo Sun
  • Patent number: 12136189
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for image enhancement. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image enhancement system with a feedback mechanism that provides quantifiable image enhancement information. An image enhancement system may include a discriminator network that determines the quality of the media object. In cases where the discriminator network determines that the media object has a low image quality score (e.g., an image quality score below a quality threshold), the image enhancement system may perform enhancement on the media object using an enhancement network (e.g., using an enhancement network that includes a generative neural network or a generative adversarial network (GAN) model). The discriminator network may then generate an enhancement score for the enhanced media object that may be provided to the user as a feedback mechanism (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Akhilesh Kumar, Zhe Lin, Baldo Faieta
  • Patent number: 12136250
    Abstract: This disclosure describes one or more implementations of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that extract multiple attributes from an object portrayed in a digital image utilizing a multi-attribute contrastive classification neural network. For example, the disclosed systems utilize a multi-attribute contrastive classification neural network that includes an embedding neural network, a localizer neural network, a multi-attention neural network, and a classifier neural network. In some cases, the disclosed systems train the multi-attribute contrastive classification neural network utilizing a multi-attribute, supervised-contrastive loss. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate negative attribute training labels for labeled digital images utilizing positive attribute labels that correspond to the labeled digital images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Khoi Pham, Kushal Kafle, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Quan Tran
  • Patent number: 12136185
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing are described. The systems and methods include receiving a low-resolution image; generating a feature map based on the low-resolution image using an encoder of a student network, wherein the encoder of the student network is trained based on comparing a predicted feature map from the encoder of the student network and a fused feature map from a teacher network, and wherein the fused feature map represents a combination of first feature map from a high-resolution encoder of the teacher network and a second feature map from a low-resolution encoder of the teacher network; and decoding the feature map to obtain prediction information for the low-resolution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Jason Kuen, Jiuxiang Gu, Zhe Lin
  • Publication number: 20240362791
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for utilizing machine learning to generate a mask for an object portrayed in a digital image. For example, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a neural network to generate an image feature representation from the digital image. The disclosed systems can receive a selection input identifying one or more pixels corresponding to the object. In addition, in some implementations, the disclosed systems generate a modified feature representation by integrating the selection input into the image feature representation. Moreover, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize an additional neural network to generate a plurality of masking proposals for the object from the modified feature representation. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a further neural network to generate the mask for the object from the modified feature representation and/or the masking proposals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Yuqian Zhou, Chuong Huynh, Connelly Barnes, Elya Shechtman, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Zhe Lin
  • Publication number: 20240362757
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for inpainting digital images utilizing mask-robust machine-learning models. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems obtain an initial mask for an object depicted in a digital image. Additionally, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing a mask-robust inpainting machine-learning model, an inpainted image from the digital image and the initial mask. Moreover, in some implementations, the disclosed systems generate a relaxed mask that expands the initial mask. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a modified image by compositing the inpainted image and the digital image utilizing the relaxed mask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Sohrab Amirghodsi, Lingzhi Zhang, Connelly Barnes, Elya Shechtman, Yuqian Zhou, Zhe Lin
  • Publication number: 20240355022
    Abstract: One or more aspects of a method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium include obtaining an input description and an input image depicting a subject, encoding the input description using a text encoder of an image generation model to obtain a text embedding, and encoding the input image using a subject encoder of the image generation model to obtain a subject embedding. A guidance embedding is generated by combining the subject embedding and the text embedding, and then an output image is generated based on the guidance embedding using a diffusion model of the image generation model. The output image depicts aspects of the subject and the input description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Jing Shi, Wei Xiong, Zhe Lin, Hyun Joon Jung
  • Patent number: 12124439
    Abstract: Digital content search techniques are described that overcome the challenges found in conventional sequence-based techniques through use of a query-aware sequential search. In one example, a search query is received and sequence input data is obtained based on the search query. The sequence input data describes a sequence of digital content and respective search queries. Embedding data is generated based on the sequence input data using an embedding module of a machine-learning model. The embedding module includes a query-aware embedding layer that generates embeddings of the sequence of digital content and respective search queries. A search result is generated referencing at least one item of digital content by processing the embedding data using at least one layer of the machine-learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Handong Zhao, Zhe Lin, Zhaowen Wang, Zhankui He, Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale
  • Patent number: 12118752
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a color classification system that accurately classifies objects in digital images based on color. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the color classification system utilizes a multidimensional color space and one or more color mappings to match objects to colors. Indeed, the color classification system can accurately and efficiently detect the color of an object utilizing one or more color similarity regions generated in the multidimensional color space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Ding, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Mingyang Ling
  • Publication number: 20240338869
    Abstract: An image processing system obtains an input image (e.g., a user provided image, etc.) and a mask indicating an edit region of the image. A user selects an image editing mode for an image generation network from a plurality of image editing modes. The image generation network generates an output image using the input image, the mask, and the image editing mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Yuqian Zhou, Krishna Kumar Singh, Zhifei Zhang, Difan Liu, Zhe Lin, Jianming Zhang, Qing Liu, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Connelly Stuart Barnes
  • Patent number: 12112537
    Abstract: A group captioning system includes computing hardware, software, and/or firmware components in support of the enhanced group captioning contemplated herein. In operation, the system generates a target embedding for a group of target images, as well as a reference embedding for a group of reference images. The system identifies information in-common between the group of target images and the group of reference images and removes the joint information from the target embedding and the reference embedding. The result is a contrastive group embedding that includes a contrastive target embedding and a contrastive reference embedding with which to construct a contrastive group embedding, which is then input to a model to obtain a group caption for the target group of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Quan Hung Tran, Long Thanh Mai, Zhe Lin, Zhuowan Li
  • Publication number: 20240331214
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image processing (e.g., image extension or image uncropping) using neural networks are described. One or more aspects include obtaining an image (e.g., a source image, a user provided image, etc.) having an initial aspect ratio, and identifying a target aspect ratio (e.g., via user input) that is different from the initial aspect ratio. The image may be positioned in an image frame having the target aspect ratio, where the image frame includes an image region containing the image and one or more extended regions outside the boundaries of the image. An extended image may be generated (e.g., using a generative neural network), where the extended image includes the image in the image region as well as generated image portions in the extended regions and the one or more generated image portions comprise an extension of a scene element depicted in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Yuqian Zhou, Elya Shechtman, Zhe Lin, Krishna Kumar Singh, Jingwan Lu, Connelly Stuart Barnes, Sohrab Amirghodsi
  • Publication number: 20240320872
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for image generation include obtaining a text embedding of a text prompt and an image embedding of an image prompt. Some embodiments map the text embedding into a joint embedding space to obtain a joint text embedding and map the image embedding into the joint embedding space to obtain a joint image embedding. Some embodiments generate a synthetic image based on the joint text embedding and the joint image embedding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Tobias Hinz, Venkata Naveen Kumar Yadav Marri, Midhun Harikumar, Ajinkya Gorakhnath Kale, Zhe Lin, Oliver Wang, Jingwan Lu
  • Patent number: 12093306
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an object selection system that accurately detects and optionally automatically selects user-requested objects (e.g., query objects) in digital images. For example, the object selection system builds and utilizes an object selection pipeline to determine which object detection neural network to utilize to detect a query object based on analyzing the object class of a query object. In particular, the object selection system can identify both known object classes as well as objects corresponding to unknown object classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Mingyang Ling
  • Publication number: 20240303787
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for inpainting a digital image using a hybrid wire removal pipeline. For example, the disclosed systems use a hybrid wire removal pipeline that integrates multiple machine learning models, such as a wire segmentation model, a hole separation model, a mask dilation model, a patch-based inpainting model, and a deep inpainting model. Using the hybrid wire removal pipeline, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a wire segmentation from a digital image depicting one or more wires. The disclosed systems also utilize the hybrid wire removal pipeline to extract or identify portions of the wire segmentation that indicate specific wires or portions of wires. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems further inpaint pixels of the digital image corresponding to the wires indicated by the wire segmentation mask using the patch-based inpainting model and/or the deep inpainting model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yuqian Zhou, Connelly Barnes, Zijun Wei, Zhe Lin, Elya Shechtman, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Xiaoyang Liu
  • Patent number: 12079725
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an application receives a request to execute a convolutional neural network model. The application determines the computational complexity requirement for the neural network based on the computing resource available on the device. The application further determines the architecture of the convolutional neural network model by determining the locations of down-sampling layers within the convolutional neural network model based on the computational complexity requirement. The application reconfigures the architecture of the convolutional neural network model by moving the down-sampling layers to the determined locations and executes the convolutional neural network model to generate output results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Yilin Wang, Siyuan Qiao, Jianming Zhang
  • Patent number: 12079269
    Abstract: Visually guided machine-learning language model and embedding techniques are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques in a variety of ways. In one example, a model is trained to support a visually guided machine-learning embedding space that supports visual intuition as to “what” is represented by text. The visually guided language embedding space supported by the model, once trained, may then be used to support visual intuition as part of a variety of functionality. In one such example, the visually guided language embedding space as implemented by the model may be leveraged as part of a multi-modal differential search to support search of digital images and other digital content with real-time focus adaptation which overcomes the challenges of conventional techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Pranav Vineet Aggarwal, Zhe Lin, Baldo Antonio Faieta, Saeid Antonio Motiian
  • Patent number: 12067730
    Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments are directed to refining or correcting individual semantic segmentation/instance segmentation masks that have already been produced by baseline models in order to generate a final coherent panoptic segmentation map. Specifically, a refinement model, such as an encoder-decoder-based neural network, generates or predicts various data objects, such as foreground masks, bounding box offset maps, center maps, center offset maps, and coordinate convolution. This, among other functionality described herein, improves the inaccuracies and computing resource consumption of existing technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Simon Su Chen, Jason Wen-youg Kuen, Bo Sun
  • Publication number: 20240255532
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of thrombosis and hemostasis-related disease detection technologies, and in particular to a biomarker and an application thereof in thrombotic and coagulation-related disorders detection. The biomarker comprises an activated peptide of Coagulation Factor XIII (FXIIIAP) and/or an A subunit of Coagulation Factor XIII (FXIIIA). The diagnostic kit provided by the present invention comprises a capture antibody and a detection antibody, which is a specific antibody prepared by using FXIIIAP as an antigen. The biomarker of the present invention has a promising application prospect of rapid screening and diagnosis of thrombotic and coagulation-related diseases, including strokes, can significantly improve the sensitivity and specificity of existing diagnostic methods, speculate the thrombus formation timing and extent, and can predict the severity and prognosis of the disease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventor: Zhe Lin