US 11,748,882 B2
Animal detection based on detection and association of parts
Eric T. Psota, Lincoln, NE (US); Lance C. Perez, Lincoln, NE (US); Ty Schmidt, Eagle, NE (US); and Benny Mote, Lincoln, NE (US)
Assigned to NUtech Ventures, Lincoln, NE (US)
Filed by NUtech Ventures, Lincoln, NE (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/865,902.
Application 17/865,902 is a continuation of application No. 16/913,679, filed on Jun. 26, 2020, granted, now 11,393,088.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/040,951, filed on Jun. 18, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/867,626, filed on Jun. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0092387 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/77 (2017.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/77 (2017.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 40/103 (2022.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30232 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of recognizing animals, the method comprising:
applying at least one recognition module to at least one image of animals to recognize body parts of the animals, in which the body parts include a plurality of types of body parts, and the at least one recognition module outputs first estimated positions of the recognized body parts in the at least one image;
applying the at least one recognition module to the at least one image of animals to estimate first associations of body parts of the animals, in which each first association of body parts associates a body part of an animal with at least one other body part of the same animal, and the at least one recognition module outputs relative positions of the body parts in each estimated first association of body parts;
determining, based on the first estimated positions of the recognized body parts and the relative positions of the body parts in the recognized first associations of body parts, second associations of body parts in which each second association of body parts associates a recognized body part of an animal with at least one other recognized body part of the same animal; and
recognizing individual animals in the at least one image based on the second associations of body parts of the animals.