Patent ID: 11954600
Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. An image processing method comprising:
a step of acquiring a first M-channel image;
a step of generating a first N-channel image using the first M-channel image;
a step of fusing the first M-channel image and the first N-channel image to generate a first K-channel image;
a step of training an object detection neural network using the first K-channel image;
a step of acquiring a second M-channel image and a second N-channel image that include an identical subject;
a step of fusing the second M-channel image and the second N-channel image to generate a second K-channel image; and
a step of generating, using the object detection neural network trained using the first K-channel image, object detection result information with respect to the second K-channel image, and outputting the object detection result information,
wherein the step of generating the first N-channel image using the first M-channel image includes:
a step of generating a candidate image for the first N-channel image based on the first M-channel image;
a step of comparing the candidate image with ground truth for the first N-channel image in order to determine a divergence of the candidate image with respect to the ground truth; and
a step of outputting, as the first N-channel image, a candidate image that satisfies a predetermined divergence criterion, where K, M, and N are positive integers.