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公开(公告)号:US12038320B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-16
申请号:US17556928
申请日:2021-12-20
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Shaobo Han , Yuheng Chen , Ming-Fang Huang , Tingfeng Li
CPC classification number: G01H9/004 , B60W30/18 , G06V10/14 , G06V10/82 , G06V20/52 , H04B10/2537 , B60W2420/406 , G06V2201/08
Abstract: A fiber optic sensing technology for vehicle run-off-road incident automatic detection by an indicator of sonic alert pattern (SNAP) vibration patterns. A machine learning method is employed and trained and evaluated against a variety of heterogeneous factors using controlled experiments, demonstrating applicability for future field deployment. Extracted events resulting from operation of our system may be advantageously incorporated into existing management systems for intelligent transportation and smart city applications, facilitating real-time alleviation of traffic congestion and/or providing a quick response rescue and clearance operation.
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公开(公告)号:US11846569B2
公开(公告)日:2023-12-19
申请号:US17715002
申请日:2022-04-06
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Yue Tian , Sarper Ozharar , Yangmin Ding , Shaobo Han , Ting Wang
CPC classification number: G01M7/08 , G01D5/35361 , G01H9/004
Abstract: A method of utility pole integrity assessment by distributed fiber optic sensing/distributed acoustic sensing (DFOS/DAS) employing existing telecommunications fiber optic cable as a sensor. The fiber optic cable is suspended aerially from a plurality of utility poles and a machine learning model is developed during training by mechanically exciting the utility poles. Once developed, and in sharp contrast to the prior art, the machine learning model—in conjunction with DFOS/DAS operation—determines an integrity assessment for a plurality of the utility poles aerially suspending the fiber optic cable from a mechanical impact of a single pole.
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公开(公告)号:US12205357B2
公开(公告)日:2025-01-21
申请号:US17715901
申请日:2022-04-07
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Shaobo Han , Renqiang Min , Tingfeng Li
IPC: G06V10/778 , G06V10/82 , G06V30/19
Abstract: A reinforcement learning based approach to the problem of query object localization, where an agent is trained to localize objects of interest specified by a small exemplary set. We learn a transferable reward signal formulated using the exemplary set by ordinal metric learning. It enables test-time policy adaptation to new environments where the reward signals are not readily available, and thus outperforms fine-tuning approaches that are limited to annotated images. In addition, the transferable reward allows repurposing of the trained agent for new tasks, such as annotation refinement, or selective localization from multiple common objects across a set of images. Experiments on corrupted MNIST dataset and CU-Birds dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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公开(公告)号:US12078528B2
公开(公告)日:2024-09-03
申请号:US17869763
申请日:2022-07-20
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Ming-Fang Huang , Shaobo Han , Yuheng Chen , Milad Salemi , Ting Wang
CPC classification number: G01H9/004 , G01D5/35361
Abstract: Systems, and methods for automatically identifying an underground optical fiber cable length from DFOS systems in real time and pair it with GPS coordinates that advantageously eliminate the need for in-field inspection/work by service personnel to make such real-time distance/location determinations. As such, inefficient, error-prone and labor-intensive prior art methods are rendered obsolete. Operationally, our method disclosure involves driving vehicles including GPS to generate traffic patterns and automatically mapping traffic trajectory signals from a deployed buried fiber optic cable to locate geographic location(s) of the buried fiber optic cable. Traffic patterns are automatically recognized; slack in the fiber optic cable is accounted for; location of traffic lights and other traffic control devices/structures may be determined; and turns in the fiber optic cable may likewise be determined.
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公开(公告)号:US12051326B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-30
申请号:US17575610
申请日:2022-01-13
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Shaobo Han , Ming-Fang Huang , Philip Ji , Yueheng Chen , Milad Salemi
CPC classification number: G08G1/04 , G06V10/48 , G08G1/0116 , G08G1/0133 , G08G1/0145
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe DFOS systems, methods, and structures that advantageously extract road traffic from DFOS vibration patterns such that anomaly detection is possible. Sensed vibration data is represented accurately as a set of points, where each point is denoted as a tuple with elements indicating a time stamp, a location along a length of a DFOS optical sensing cable, and vibration strength detected at the location at the time. Traffic pattern detection is based on a progressive probabilistic Hough transform (PPHT) that exploits global information from an entire spatial-temporal data snapshot to assess a cause of detected vibrations.
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公开(公告)号:US12000729B2
公开(公告)日:2024-06-04
申请号:US17555990
申请日:2021-12-20
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Shaobo Han , Ming-Fang Huang , Yuheng Chen , Milad Salemi
CPC classification number: G01H9/004 , G06N7/01 , G06V10/28 , G06V10/449 , G06T2207/30181
Abstract: Distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods and structures for determining the proximity of vibration sources located perpendicular to a sensor fiber that is part of the DFOS system that may potentially threaten/damage or otherwise compromise the sensor fiber itself. Systems, methods, and structures according to aspects of the present disclosure employ Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodology(ies) that use as input a fundamental physical understanding of wave propagation and attenuation in the ground along with Bayesian inference and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) techniques for estimating/determining the proximity of potentially damaging vibration sources to the optical sensor fiber.
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公开(公告)号:US11733089B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-22
申请号:US17556939
申请日:2021-12-20
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Shaobo Han , Ming-Fang Huang , Eric Cosatto
IPC: G01H9/00 , H04B10/071
CPC classification number: G01H9/004 , H04B10/071
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe an unsupervised context encoder-based fiber sensing method that detects anomalous vibrations proximate to a sensor fiber that is part of a distributed fiber optic sensing system (DFOS) such that damage to the sensor fiber by activities producing and anomalous vibrations are preventable. Advantageously, our method requires only normal data streams and a machine learning based operation is utilized to analyze the sensing data and report abnormal events related to construction or other fiber-threatening activities in real-time. Our machine learning algorithm is based on waterfall image inpainting by context encoder and is self-trained in an end-to-end manner and extended every time the DFOS sensor fiber is optically connected to a new route. Accordingly, our inventive method and system it is much easier to deploy as compared to supervised methods of the prior art.
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公开(公告)号:US20230130788A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-27
申请号:US17958415
申请日:2022-10-02
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Sarper OZHARAR , Ting WANG , Yue TIAN , Yangmin DING , Philip JI , Shaobo Han , Ming-Fang Huang , Tingfeng Li
IPC: G01H9/00 , G01D5/353 , H04B10/071
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures that advantageously sense/monitor outdoor facilities and structures including outdoor cabinets containing fiber optic facilities in which the cabinet/fiber optic cable contained therein are configured to provide superior acoustic sensing. Further outdoor facilities and structures that are monitored include manhole structures. Superior DFOS/DAS monitoring results are obtained by employing a machine learning-based analysis method that employs a temporal relation network (TRN).
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公开(公告)号:US20250148294A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-08
申请号:US18922807
申请日:2024-10-22
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Philip Ji , Shaobo Han , Ting Wang
Abstract: Systems and methods include calibrating physical parameters of acoustic data using a deterministic model related to hardware configurations that generated the acoustic data to provide an intermediate layer of data. The intermediate layer of data is then calibrated using environmental factors related to the acoustic data by employing machine learning to provide a multichannel data output. A loss is optimized between the multichannel data output and multichannel distributed-optic fiber sensing (DFOS) data to train a hybrid transfer model to translate between DFOS data and acoustic data.
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公开(公告)号:US20250148281A1
公开(公告)日:2025-05-08
申请号:US18909467
申请日:2024-10-08
Applicant: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Inventor: Shaobo Han , Tingfeng Li , Renqiang Min
IPC: G06N3/08
Abstract: Systems and methods include collecting real-world distributed-optic fiber sensing (DFOS) sensing data from a target environment as a reference dataset. A synthetic sketch dataset is constructed as a parameterized computer program. A synthetic waterfall is generated from a deep neural network as an image translator from the sketch waterfall with nonlinear distortions and background noises added. Parameters are optimized for generating the synthetic waterfall under a loss function where the loss function encodes a generalization performance on the real-world dataset and encodes granularities from a sensing process and uncontrollable factors.
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