US 11,915,467 B1
Saliency for anchor-based object detection
James Brian Hall, Woodstock Valley, CT (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Aug. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/819,305.
Int. Cl. G06V 10/48 (2022.01); G06V 10/771 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 10/48 (2022.01) [G06V 10/771 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
a processor; and
a computer-readable medium storing instructions that are operative upon execution by the processor to:
perform, with an object detector, a first object detection process on an image, wherein the first object detection process employs a plurality of anchor boxes; identify an object detection result for the image;
determine, from among the plurality of anchor boxes, a first anchor box associated with the object detection result; and
generate a saliency map for the image using only the first anchor box.