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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2010
Applicants:
Lin Yang, Birmingham, AL (US);
Xiaqing Wu, San Mateo, CA (US);
Emil Praun, Union City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for detecting trees in aerial imagery are provided. A method for detecting trees in aerial imagery may include training a pixel-level classifier to assign a tree or non-tree label to each pixel in an aerial image. The method may further include segmenting tree and non-tree regions of the labeled pixels. The method may also include locating individual tree crowns in the segmented tree regions using one or more tree templates. A system for detecting trees in aerial imagery may include a trainer, a segmenter and a tree locator.