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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In implementations of the subject matter described herein, the feature maps are obtained by convoluting an input image using a plurality of layers of convolution filters. The feature maps record semantic information for respective regions on the image and only need to be computed once. Segment features of the image are extracted from the convolutional feature maps. Particularly, the binary masks may be obtained from a set of candidate segments of the image. The binary masks are used to mask the feature maps instead of the raw image. The masked feature maps define the segment features. The semantic segmentation of the image is done by determining a semantic category for each pixel in the image at least in part based on the resulting segment features.