Patents by Inventor Zhiqiang SHEN

Zhiqiang SHEN 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: 11954175
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improvement to prior art feature pyramids for general object detection that inserts a simple norm calibration (NC) operation between the feature pyramids and detection head to alleviate and balance the norm bias caused by feature pyramid network (FPN) and which leverages an enhanced multi-feature selective strategy (MS) during training to assign the ground-truth to one or more levels of the feature pyramid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Fangyi Chen, Chenchen Zhu, Zhiqiang Shen, Han Zhang, Marios Savvides
  • Publication number: 20240093443
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure is a double-deck multi-span bridge construction method. According to the double-deck bridge construction method of the present disclosure, construction is carried out by using a method of disassembling a support jig frame in a graded and span-separated mode, an upper chord jig frame and a lower chord jig frame can be used in a recycle manner, and construction costs are reduced. In addition, a construction period of building the support jig frame is shortened, and other construction operations can be synchronously carried out on a span in which the jig frame is disassembled, for example, fire retardant coating construction can be carried out on a mounted bridge deck after the jig frame is disassembled, and the construction period of a double-deck multi-span bridge is effectively shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: CHINA CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventors: Jinglei REN, Bing SUN, Yonggang GAO, Hongyu SHEN, Shaohui ZHU, Jianguo QI, Cui LIU, Ruihua YAN, Zhiqiang HE, Longfei LI, Sijie YANG, Huaidong ZHANG, Xu CHEN, Wei JIANG, Wenbo LI, Yingwu SUN, Yuhang ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240095523
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for novel neural architecture search using a random graph network backbone to facilitate the creation of an efficient network structure. The method utilizes reinforcement learning algorithms to build a complex relationship between intra-connections (i.e., links between blocks in a random graph network) and extra-connections (i.e., links among blocks across the random graphs network) for discovering an efficient random neural architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Marios Savvides, Thanh Hai Phan, Zhiqiang Shen, Askhay Chawla
  • Publication number: 20240099066
    Abstract: Disclosed are a display substrate. The display substrate includes a drive backplane; a first electrode layer disposed on a side of the drive backplane; a pixel definition layer disposed on a side, distal to the drive backplane, of the first electrode layer; an organic light-emitting layer disposed on a side, distal to the drive backplane, of the pixel definition layer, wherein the organic light-emitting layer comprises: a plurality of organic material layers stacked in a direction perpendicular to and away from the drive backplane, and a portion of the organic material layer disposed inside the partition groove is separated from a portion of the organic material layer disposed outside the partition groove; and a second electrode layer disposed on a side, distal to the drive backplane, of the organic light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: Yunnan Invensight Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuhao LEE, Xue DONG, Xiaochuan CHEN, Hui TONG, Xiaobin SHEN, Kuanta HUANG, Cao WU, Weiliang BU, Hui WANG, Zhiqiang JIAO
  • Publication number: 20240071029
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of soft anchor-point detection (SAPD), which implements a concise, single-stage anchor-point detector with both faster speed and higher accuracy. Also disclosed is a novel training strategy with two softened optimization techniques: soft-weighted anchor points and soft-selected pyramid levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Chenchen ZHU, Marios Savvides, Zhiqiang Shen, Fangyi Chen
  • Publication number: 20240054775
    Abstract: Disclosed herein an effective detach strategy which suppresses the flow of gradients from context sub-networks through the detection backbone path to obtain a more discriminative context by forcing the representation of context sub-network to be dissimilar from the detection network. A sub-network is defined to generate the context information from early layers of the detection backbone. Because instance and context focus on perceptually different parts of an image, the representations from either of them should also be discrepant. In addition, a stacked complementary loss is generated to and backpropagated to the detection network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Shen, Harsh Maheshwari, Marios Savvides
  • Patent number: 11900648
    Abstract: An image generation method includes: extracting a content feature of a first image; respectively extracting an overall image style feature of a second image, and an object style feature of a partial image block, which includes an object, in the second image; determining a target style feature at least according to the overall image style feature and the object style feature; and generating a third image according to the content feature and the target style feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: SENSETIME GROUP LIMITED, HONDA MOTOR CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Shen, Mingyang Huang, Jianping Shi, Hideki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20240035482
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a blowing structure and a fan. The blowing structure includes a main body, a base, a control panel, a second drive member, and a first drive member. The main body is provided with a blowing channel, and the main body is rotatably connected to the base. The control panel is disposed on the main body. The second drive member is disposed in the blowing channel. The first drive member is connected to the main body, and the first drive member is configured to adjust an angle of rotation of the main body with respect to the base. The control panel is electrically connected to the second drive member and the first drive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAI
    Inventors: Zhiqiang SHEN, Yong WANG, Shuang FENG, Jiyan WANG, Ruipeng FAN
  • Publication number: 20240013032
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a design for a 1-bit CNN that closes the performance gap between binary neural networks and real-valued networks on challenging large-scale datasets. The design starts with a high-performance baseline network. Blocks with identity shortcuts which bypass 1-bit generic convolutions are adopted to replace the convolutions in the baseline network. Reshaping and shifting of activation functions is introduced. Finally, a distributional loss to further is adopted enforce the binary network to learn similar output distributions as those of a real-valued network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Shen, Zechun Liu, Marios Savvides
  • Publication number: 20230368038
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method providing a flexible way to transfer knowledge from base to novel classes in a few shot learning scenario. The invention introduces a partial transfer paradigm for the few-shot classification task in which a model is first trained on the base classes. Then, instead of transferring the learned representation by freezing the whole backbone network, an efficient evolutionary search method is used to automatically determine which layer or layers need to be frozen and which will be fine-tuned on the support set of the novel class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Shen, Zechun Liu, Marios Savvides
  • Patent number: 11790644
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for generating dense natural language descriptions for video content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to receive a source video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a plurality of regions for each of the plurality of frames, generate at least one region-sequence connecting the determined plurality of regions, apply a language model to the at least one region-sequence to generate description information comprising a description of at least a portion of content of the source video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yurong Chen, Jianguo Li, Zhou Su, Zhiqiang Shen
  • Publication number: 20220262101
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for improving the accuracy of an object detector when trained with a dataset having a significant number of missing annotations. The method uses a novel Background Recalibration Loss (BRL) which adjusts the gradient direction according to its own activation to reduce the adverse effect of error signals by replacing the negative branch of the focal loss with a mirror of the positive branch when the activation is below a confusion threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Marios Savvides, Zhiqiang Shen, Fangyi Chen, Han Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220180127
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for generating dense natural language descriptions for video content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to receive a source video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a plurality of regions for each of the plurality of frames, generate at least one region-sequence connecting the determined plurality of regions, apply a language model to the at least one region-sequence to generate description information comprising a description of at least a portion of content of the source video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yurong CHEN, Jianguo LI, Zhou SU, Zhiqiang SHEN
  • Patent number: 11263489
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for generating dense natural language descriptions for video content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to receive a source video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a plurality of regions for each of the plurality of frames, generate at least one region-sequence connecting the determined plurality of regions, apply a language model to the at least one region-sequence to generate description information comprising a description of at least a portion of content of the source video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yurong Chen, Jianguo Li, Zhou Su, Zhiqiang Shen
  • Publication number: 20220044054
    Abstract: An image generation method includes: extracting a content feature of a first image; respectively extracting an overall image style feature of a second image, and an object style feature of a partial image block, which includes an object, in the second image; determining a target style feature at least according to the overall image style feature and the object style feature; and generating a third image according to the content feature and the target style feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicants: SENSETIME GROUP LIMITED, HONDA MOTOR CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiqiang SHEN, Mingyang HUANG, Jianping SHI, Hideki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20220044073
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improvement to prior art feature pyramids for general object detection that inserts a simple norm calibration (NC) operation between the feature pyramids and detection head to alleviate and balance the norm bias caused by feature pyramid network (FPN) and which leverages an enhanced multi-feature selective strategy (MS) during training to assign the ground-truth to one or more levels of the feature pyramid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Fangyi Chen, Chenchen Zhu, Zhiqiang Shen, Han Zhang, Marios Savvides
  • Publication number: 20210142115
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for generating dense natural language descriptions for video content are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to receive a source video comprising a plurality of frames, determine a plurality of regions for each of the plurality of frames, generate at least one region-sequence connecting the determined plurality of regions, apply a language model to the at least one region-sequence to generate description information comprising a description of at least a portion of content of the source video. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yurong CHEN, Jianguo LI, Zhou SU, Zhiqiang SHEN