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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2023
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Haining Liu, Dallas, TX (US);
Feiyun Zhu, Arlington, TX (US);
Ryan B. Reagan, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Zhichun Xiao, Plano, TX (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automatically annotating images. In some embodiments, a system for automatically annotating images comprises a database, wherein the database is configured to store images and annotations for the images and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is communicatively coupled to the database, and wherein the control circuit is configured to retrieve, from the database, an image, generate, based on the image, a collection of augmented images, generate segmentation maps for each image in the collection of augmented images, wherein each of the segmentation maps include segments, select, based on a threshold, ones of the segments above a threshold, merge the ones of the segments above the threshold to create a segmented image, and generate, for each segment of the segmented image, classifications, wherein an annotation for the image includes the segmented images and the classifications.