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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
May. 30, 2023
Ecopia Tech Corporation, Toronto, CA;
ECOPIA TECH CORPORATION, Toronto, CA;
Abstract
Example systems and methods for data augmentation for occlusion handling in feature extraction are provided. An example method involves accessing a tree cover source image that depicts one or more areas of tree cover, extracting a tree cover map from the tree cover source image that labels areas of the tree cover source image as either areas covered by tree cover or not covered by tree cover, selecting a contiguous area of tree cover from the tree cover map to use as simulated tree cover, accessing a geospatial image depicting a building, placing the simulated tree cover in the geospatial image to generate a tree cover-augmented geospatial image, wherein the simulated tree cover partially occludes a rooftop of the building as depicted in the geospatial image, and training a machine learning model, using the tree cover-augmented geospatial image, to extract building rooftop polygons outlining buildings as depicted in geospatial imagery.