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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2020
X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alex Wilson, Oxford, GB;
Christopher Edward Bacon, Leatherhead, GB;
Jie Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cheng-en Guo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
X DEVELOPMENT LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Implementations relate to improved crop field segmentation and crop classification in which boundaries between crop fields are more accurately detected. In various implementations, high-elevation image(s) that capture an area containing multiple demarcated fields may be applied as input across one or more machine learning models to generate a boundary enhancement channel. Each pixel of the boundary enhancement channel may be spatially aligned with a corresponding pixel of the one or more high-elevation images. Moreover, each pixel of the boundary enhancement channel may be classified with a unit angle to a reference location of the field of the multiple demarcated fields that contains the pixel. Based on the boundary enhancement channel, pixel-wise field memberships of pixels of the one or more high-elevation images in the multiple demarcated fields may be determined.