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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2020
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Eyasu Zemene Mequanint, San Diego, CA (US);
Yingyong Qi, San Diego, CA (US);
Ning Bi, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples are described of segmenting an image into image regions based on depicted categories of objects, and for refining the image regions semantically. For example, a system can determine that a first image region in an image depicts a first category of object. The system can generate a color distance map of the first image region that maps color distance values to each pixel in the first image region. A color distance value quantifies a difference between a color value of a pixel in the first image region and a color value of a sample pixel in a second image region in the image. The system can process the image based on a refined variant of the first image region that is refined based on the color distance map, for instance by removing pixels from the first image region whose color distances fall below a color distance threshold.