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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Takeda, Tokyo, JP;
Tamaki Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari, San Jose, CA (US);
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic device and method for image mask generation using a deep neural network is provided. The electronic device stores an input image that includes an object of interest generates a pilot mask for the input image by application of a trained deep neural network (DNN) on the input image. The electronic device extracts, from the input image, a region of interest that includes the object of interest, based on the generated pilot mask and resizes the extracted region of interest such that a size of the resized region of interest equals a threshold scaling size. The electronic device further generates a final mask by reapplication of the trained DNN on the resized region of interest.