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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Yen-Liang Lin, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Walter V. Dixon, III, Duanesburg, NY (US);
James Vradenburg Miller, Clifton Park, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
According to some embodiments, a system, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided comprising an image data source storing image data from a plurality of images; a height map source storing height maps for an area of interest (AOI); a building footprint module; a memory; and a building footprint processor, operative to execute the program instructions to: receive image data for an AOI; receive a height map for the AOI; execute a building segmentation module to generate a building mask that indicates a presence of one or more buildings in the AOI; apply at least one clean mask process to the generated building mask to generate a clean mask; receive the clean mask at an instance building segmentation module; and execute the instance building segmentation module to generate at least one building footprint based on the clean mask and the received image data. Numerous other aspects are provided.