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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Julien Pascal Christophe Valentin, Zurich, CH;
Erroll William Wood, Cambridge, GB;
Thomas Joseph Cashman, Cambridge, GB;
Martin De La Gorce, Cambridge, GB;
Tadas Baltrusaitis, Cambridge, GB;
Daniel Stephen Wilde, Cambridge, GB;
Jingjing Shen, Cambridge, GB;
Matthew Alastair Johnson, Cambridge, GB;
Charles Thomas Hewitt, Cambridge, GB;
Nikola Milosavljevic, Belgrade, RS;
Stephan Joachim Garbin, Cambridge, GB;
Toby Sharp, Cambridge, GB;
Ivan Stojiljkovic, Cambridge, GB;
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Keypoints are predicted in an image. Predictions are generated for each of the keypoints of an image as a 2D random variable, normally distributed with location (x, y) and standard deviation sigma. A neural network is trained to maximize a log-likelihood that samples from each of the predicted keypoints equal a ground truth. The trained neural network is used to predict keypoints of an image without generating a heatmap.