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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/66 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/66 (2013.01); G06F 17/30247 (2013.01); G06F 17/30271 (2013.01); G06K 9/6255 (2013.01);
Abstract
Neural networks for object detection in images are used with a spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) layer. Using the SPP network structure, a fixed-length representation is generated regardless of image size and scale. The feature maps are computed from the entire image once, and the features are pooled in arbitrary regions (sub-images) to generate fixed-length representations for training the detectors. Thus, repeated computation of the convolutional features is avoided while accuracy is enhanced.