Patent ID: 11922671
Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for processing image data associated with at least one input image, comprising:
at least one processor; and, at least one memory including computer program code;, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to implement a convolutional neural network (CNN),-based encoder configured to receive at least one input image and provide a plurality of hierarchical feature maps based on image data associated with the at least one input image to a decoder, the decoder configured to provide output data based on said plurality of feature maps to the apparatus, wherein said decoder comprises a convolutional long short-term memory (Conv-LSTM) module configured to sequentially process at least some of said plurality of hierarchical feature maps and model the at least some of the plurality of hierarchical feature maps as sequential data on a decoder path, and wherein the apparatus is configured to perform one of dense prediction or sparse prediction based on the output data and the sequential data.