Patent ID: 11861497
Assignee: L'OREAL
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computing device configured to generate a CNN trained to process images to define an object segmentation mask, the computing device comprising:
a storage unit to receive a CNN configured for image classification and configured to execute on a run time computing device having limited computational power;
a processing unit configured to provide an interactive interface to receive input and display output, the processing unit configured to:
receive input to adapt the CNN to define an object segmentation mask and store the CNN as adapted to the storage unit; and
receive input to train the CNN as adapted using segmentation training data labelled for object segmentation to generate the CNN to process images to define the object segmentation mask,
wherein the processing unit is configure to receive input to adapt the CNN to, at least one of:
use a minimize a mask-image gradient consistency loss function defined to minimize the mask-image gradient consistency loss when training; and
use skip connections between layers in an encoder stage and corresponding layers in a decoder stage to combine low resolution but powerful features and high resolution but weak features when upsampling in the decoder stage; and
store the CNN as adapted to the storage unit.