Described are methods and systems for selecting a highlight segment. The computer-implemented method comprises receiving a sequence of frames, and at least one user data; via a converting module, for each frame, selecting a local neighborhood around it. said neighborhood comprising at least one frame; and converting each neighborhood into a feature vector; via a high-lighting module, assigning a score to each of the feature vectors based on the user data; via a selection module, selecting at least one highlight segment based on the scoring of the feature vectors; and via an outputting module, outputting the highlight segment. The system comprises a receiving module configured to receive a sequence of frames, and at least one user data; a converting module configured to select a local neighborhood around each frame, said neighborhood comprising at least one frame, and convert each neighborhood into a feature vector, a highlighting module configured to assign a score to each of the feature vector based on the user data; a selection module configured to select at least one highlight segment based on the scoring of the feature vectors; and an output component configured to output the highlight segment.

A processor acquires a plurality of first training data in which area information indicating an area in which each of a plurality of regions is present is added to a first training image which is at least a part of a plurality of training images each including the plurality of regions, and a plurality of second training data in which relationship information indicating a relationship between the plurality of regions is added to a second training image which is at least a part of the plurality of training images. The processor calculates, for each first training image, a first evaluation value for training an estimation model such that the plurality of regions specified by using the estimation model match the area information. The processor derives, for each second training image, estimation information in which the relationship indicated by the relationship information is estimated by using the estimation model to calculate a second evaluation value indicating a degree of deviation between the estimation information and the relationship information. The processor trains the estimation model such that a loss including, as elements, the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value is reduced.

A plurality of training data in which range information indicating a range in which a first region and a second region including at least a part of the first region are present is added to each of a plurality of training images each including the first region and the second region are acquired. For each pixel of the training image, a probability that the pixel is a portion of the first region that is not included in the second region is calculated by using an estimation model. A probability sum, which is a sum of the probabilities, is calculated for each of the plurality of training images. The estimation model is trained such that the probability sum calculated for each of training images in which the first region has the portion that is not included in the second region is increased and the probability sum calculated for each of training images in which the first region does not have the portion that is not included in the second region is zero.

There is provided a method and a system configured obtain an image of a semiconductor specimen including one or more arrays, each including repetitive structural elements, and one or more regions, each region at least partially surrounding a corresponding array and including features different from the repetitive structural elements, wherein the PMC is configured to, during run-time scanning of the semiconductor specimen, perform a correlation analysis between pixel intensity of the image and pixel intensity of a reference image informative of at least one of the repetitive structural elements, to obtain a correlation matrix, use the correlation matrix to distinguish between one or more first areas of the image corresponding to the one or more arrays and one or more second areas of the image corresponding the one or more regions, and output data informative of the one or more first areas of the image.

Herein are feature extraction mechanisms that receive parsed log messages as inputs and transform them into numerical feature vectors for machine learning models (MLMs). In an embodiment, a computer extracts fields from a log message. Each field specifies a name, a text value, and a type. For each field, a field transformer for the field is dynamically selected based the field's name and/or the field's type. The field transformer converts the field's text value into a value of the field's type. A feature encoder for the value of the field's type is dynamically selected based on the field's type and/or a range of the field's values that occur in a training corpus of an MLM. From the feature encoder, an encoding of the value of the field's typed is stored into a feature vector. Based on the MLM and the feature vector, the log message is detected as anomalous.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that generate from a first pair and a second pair of images of livestock that are within an enclosure and that are taken at different times using a stereoscopic camera, at least two distance distributions of the aquatic livestock within the enclosure. The distance distributions can be used to determine a measure associated with an optical property of the water within the enclosure. A signal associated with the measure can be provided.

The disclosure provides a learning framework that unifies both semantic segmentation and semantic edge detection. A learnable recurrent message passing layer is disclosed where semantic edges are considered as explicitly learned gating signals to refine segmentation and improve dense prediction quality by finding compact structures for message paths. The disclosure includes a method for coupled segmentation and edge learning. In one example, the method includes: (1) receiving an input image, (2) generating, from the input image, a semantic feature map, an affinity map, and a semantic edge map from a single backbone network of a convolutional neural network (CNN), and (3) producing a refined semantic feature map by smoothing pixels of the semantic feature map using spatial propagation, and controlling the smoothing using both affinity values from the affinity map and edge values from the semantic edge map.

An image processing method whereby data pertaining to an estimated captured image obtained from reference data of a sample is acquired using an input acceptance unit, an estimation unit, and an output unit. The data is used when comparing the estimated image and an actual image of the sample, wherein the method includes: an input acceptance unit accepting input of the reference data, process information pertaining to the sample, and trained model data; the estimation unit using the reference data, the process information, and the model data to calculate captured image statistics representing a probabilistic distribution of values attained by the data of the captured image; and the output unit outputting the captured image statistics, and generating the estimated captured image from the captured image statistics. This permits reducing the time required for estimation and to perform comparison in real time.

An evaluation method for an image stabilization effect of an imaging apparatus comprising: acquiring a first image obtained by imaging an object in a state in which the imaging apparatus is vibrated; acquiring a second image obtained by imaging the object in a state in which the imaging apparatus is stationary; and calculating an evaluation value indicating an image stabilization effect in a peripheral region of the imaging apparatus, based on a difference in blur amounts between the first image and the second image in the peripheral region deviated from the center of an optical axis.

A method for optimizing a display image based on display content is provided. The method is applicable to a display control chip, and includes following operations: receiving a video signal configured to transmit an image of a frame; with respect to multiple different sub-areas in an area of the image, calculating a pixel number distribution of each sub-area along multiple characteristic values; determining, according to the pixel number distribution, whether the sub-area comprises a corresponding first target pattern of multiple first target patterns; if the multiple sub-areas comprise the multiple first target patterns, respectively, performing a first preset image processing to the image to generate a processed image; if the multiple sub-areas are free from comprising the multiple first target patterns, respectively, omitting the first preset image processing to the image; and generating a display signal according to the processed image or the image.