Patent ID: 11922291
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method for processing an image utilizing a convolutional neural network, the computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving an image of size L×W;
dividing the image into patches, wherein a combined size of each patch equals L×W;
extracting, via a first convolutional layer, a feature map having a number of channels based on a feature detector of size equal to the patch size, wherein the feature detector has a stride equal to the patch size;
refining the feature map by alternatingly applying depth-wise convolutional layers and point-wise convolutional layers to obtain a refined feature map, wherein the number of channels in the feature map and the size of the feature map remains constant throughout all operations in the refinement; and
outputting the refined feature map.