Segmentation of patterns in the image field; Cutting or merging of image elements to establish the pattern region, e.g. clustering-based techniques; Detection of occlusion

Filing statistics

IPC G06V 10/26 belongs to the parent subclass G06V, which recorded 380,096 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 4,213 in 2013 to 101,211 in 2023 (+2302%). The most active applicants in class G06 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (66,669 applications), IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) (62,313 applications) and MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING (41,918 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Additional Content

BSD Berkeley segmentation dataset; a collection of manually segmented images K-Means clustering algorithm NCUTS normalised cuts, a graph-based segmentation algorithm PASCAL VOC collection of image datasets for evaluating the performance of computer vision algorithms; it includes a dedicated dataset for evaluating segmentation algorithms.