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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2008
H. Sebastian Seung, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joseph F. Murray, Boston, CA (US);
Viren Jain, Cambridge, MA (US);
Srinivas C. Turaga, Cambridge, MA (US);
Moritz Helmstaedter, Heidelberg, DE;
Winfried Denk, Heidelberg, DE;
H. Sebastian Seung, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joseph F. Murray, Boston, CA (US);
Viren Jain, Cambridge, MA (US);
Srinivas C. Turaga, Cambridge, MA (US);
Moritz Helmstaedter, Heidelberg, DE;
Winfried Denk, Heidelberg, DE;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften E.V., Munich, DE;
Abstract
Identifying objects in images is a difficult problem, particularly in cases an original image is noisy or has areas narrow in color or grayscale gradient. A technique employing a convolutional network has been identified to identify objects in such images in an automated and rapid manner. One example embodiment trains a convolutional network including multiple layers of filters. The filters are trained by learning and are arranged in successive layers and produce images having at least a same resolution as an original image. The filters are trained as a function of the original image or a desired image labeling; the image labels of objects identified in the original image are reported and may be used for segmentation. The technique can be applied to images of neural circuitry or electron microscopy, for example. The same technique can also be applied to correction of photographs or videos.