Image Feature Decoupling for Unknown-Dimension Saliency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image processing methods struggle to effectively extract and enhance features of unknown dimensions in images, leading to inefficiencies in training models due to interference from other image content.

Innovation Solution

A method involving a machine learning model that extracts features of both known and unknown dimensions from a source image, decoupling the unknown dimension to generate a target image that enhances its saliency, using techniques like generative adversarial networks and contrastive learning.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional image processing methods are used to extract features from images, then general image processing can be performed, but features of unknown dimensions cannot be effectively extracted and enhanced, leading to interference from other image content during model training

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeature extraction accuracyVSAvoidunknown dimension feature visibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the image processing task by separating known dimension features from unknown dimension features through dimension-specific projection matrices. The machine learning model processes different dimensions independently, allowing precise extraction of unknown dimension features without interference from other image content, thereby resolving the contradiction between general processing capability and specific feature extraction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism - the dimension projection matrix - that acts as a mediator between the input image and feature extraction. This intermediary selectively projects and enhances unknown dimension features while filtering out interference from other dimensions, enabling accurate feature extraction without information loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If all image content is processed uniformly during model training, then complete image information is considered, but efficiency is reduced due to interference from non-relevant image content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodel training efficiencyVSAvoidfeature identification accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different processing characteristics to different dimensions of image data. The dimension projection matrix applies specific transformation qualities to unknown dimension features that are tailored to their extraction needs, rather than applying uniform processing to all image content. This enables efficient processing by focusing computational resources on relevant features while maintaining high identification accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts only the relevant unknown dimension features from the complete image content using dimension-specific projection. By taking out and isolating the features of interest from the broader image data, the system achieves both improved training efficiency (by processing only relevant features) and maintained precision (by dedicated feature extraction mechanisms).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentEP4712043A1Method, device, media and program product for processing image
Publication Date: 2026.03.18 VOLKSWAGEN AG
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for processing an image, a device, a medium, and a program product. The method includes: extracting, by means of a machine learning model, features of predetermined dimensions from a source image, wherein the predetermined dimensions include a known dimension and an unknown dimension in a training dataset of the machine learning model. The method further includes: determining a feature of the unknown dimension from the features of the predetermined dimensions. The method further comprises: on the basis of the feature of the unknown dimension, generating a target image corresponding to the source image. According to the method of the present disclosure, a feature of an unknown dimension can be extracted from an image according to the content of the unknown dimension and decoupled from other features, and an image generated according to this feature of the unknown dimension can increase the saliency of the content of the unknown dimension in the source image.