IP Library Granted Patent US 9,858,479
Granted Patent B2
US 9,858,479 · App. 14/941,504 · Granted Jan 2, 2018

Global-scale damage detection using satellite imagery

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Patent No.
US 9,858,479
App. No.
14/941,504
Granted
Jan 2, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system for performing global-scale damage detection using satellite imagery, comprising a damage detection server that receives and analyzes image data to identify objects within an image via a curated computational method, and a curation interface that enables a user to curate image information for use in object identification, and a method for a curated computational method for performing global scale damage detection.

Claims (25)

1. A system for global-scale damage detection using satellite imagery, comprising:

a damage detection server comprising at least a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a network-connected computing device, the plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the processor, causing the processor to:

receive at least a plurality of image information from an image database;

analyze at least a portion of the image information by decomposing at least the portion of the image information into a plurality of shapes;

extracting a plurality of scale-invariant transform descriptors based at least in part on at least a portion of the plurality of image information;

performing k-means clustering on the plurality of shapes associated to at least a portion of the plurality of image information;

producing a plurality of locally-constrained linear codes based at least in part on at least a portion of the plurality of image information;

produce at least a plurality of object vector representations based at least in part on at least a portion of the analysis results; and

a curation interface comprising at least another plurality of programming instructions stored in another memory and operating on another processor of another computing device, the another plurality of programming instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to:

receive at least a portion of a plurality of image information,

receive interaction from a user device,

modify at least a portion of the plurality of image information based at least in part on at least a portion of the interaction.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the another plurality of programming instructions when executed by the processor further causes the processor to:

receive at least a plurality of object vector representations, and

modify at least a portion of the object vector representations based at least in part on at least a portion of the interaction.

3. A method for global-scale damage detection using satellite imagery, comprising the steps of:

querying, using a damage detection server comprising at least a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a network-connected computing device, the plurality of programming instructions, when operating on the processor, causing the processor to

receive at least a plurality of image information,

analyze at least a portion of the image information by decomposing at least the portion of the image information into shapes; and,

produce at least a plurality of damage detection identifiers based at least in part on at least a portion of the analysis results,

an image database for a plurality of image information;

extracting a plurality of scale-invariant transform descriptors based at least in part on at least a portion of the plurality of image information;

performing k-means clustering on shapes associated to at least a portion of the plurality of image information;

producing a plurality of locally-constrained linear codes based at least in part on at least a portion of the plurality of image information; and

performing spatial pooling based at least in part on at least a portion of the plurality of locally-constrained linear codes to produce a plurality of object vector representations, the object vector representations corresponding to at least a plurality of objects identified within at least a portion of the plurality of image information.

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