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Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2023
Applicant:

Alibaba Damo (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, CN;

Inventors:

Shurun Wang, Beijing, CN;

Zhao Wang, Hangzhou, CN;

Yan Ye, San Diego, CA (US);

Shiqi Wang, Hong Kong, HK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 19/119 (2014.01); H04N 19/14 (2014.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/42 (2014.01); H04N 19/85 (2014.01); H04N 19/124 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/85 (2014.11); H04N 19/119 (2014.11); H04N 19/14 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/42 (2014.11); H04N 19/124 (2014.11);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides pre-analysis based methods for adaptively compressing image data consumed by machine vision tasks. An exemplary method includes: receiving a video sequence; encoding one or more input pictures associated with the video sequence; and generating a bitstream, wherein the encoding includes: performing instance segmentation of an input picture, to generate one or more segment masks; combining the one or more segment masks to generate a merged mask; extracting, from the input picture, a region comprising the merged mask; and compressing image data representing the extracted region.


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