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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Amit Kumar Kc, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Daniel Ulbricht, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations a neural network is trained to perform to directly predict thin boundaries of objects in images based on image characteristics. A neural network can be trained to predict thin boundaries of objects without requiring subsequent computations to reduce the thickness of the boundary prediction. Instead, the network is trained to make the predicted boundaries thin by effectively suppressing non-maximum values in normal directions along what might otherwise be a thick predicted boundary. To do so, the neural network can be trained to determine normal directions and suppress non-maximum values based on those determined normal directions.