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| 20120106831 | STEREO VISION BASED DICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND STEREO VISION BASED DICE RECOGNITION METHOD FOR UNCONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS A dice recognition system and a dice recognition method for uncontrolled environments are provided. In the present invention, the number of dot on a dice is automatically recognized in an uncontrolled environment by using multiple cameras. The present dice recognition s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106858 | COMPRESSION OF 3D MESHES WITH REPEATED PATTERNS 3D models of the engineering class usually have a large number of connected components, with small numbers of large triangles, often with arbitrary connectivity. To enable compact storage and fast transmission of large 3D mesh models, an efficient compression strategy s... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106859 | Image Album Creation A method for creating an image album includes selecting a subset of images from a source set and creating a plurality of image albums by arranging the subset of images over one or more pages. Each image album is evaluated by a penalty detection unit (215) to gene... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082378 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE A method of selecting at least one representative image from a plurality of images, the method comprising the steps of: dividing (201) the plurality of images into clusters according to a predetermined characteristic of the content of the plurality of images; sel... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120070091 | GRAPH LATTICE METHOD FOR IMAGE CLUSTERING, CLASSIFICATION, AND REPEATED STRUCTURE FINDING A document recognition system and method, where images are represented as a collection of primitive features whose spatial relations are represented as a graph. Useful subsets of all the possible subgraphs representing different portions of images are represented over a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120020564 | SHAPE CLUSTERING IN POST OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION PROCESSING Techniques for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process. The output of an OCR process is classified into a plurality of clusters of clip images and a representative image for... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120008869 | Methods and Systems for Image Data Processing Methods, storage mediums, and systems for image data processing are provided. Embodiments for the methods, storage mediums, and systems include configurations to perform one or more of the following steps: background signal measurement, particle identification using cla... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110317928 | IMAGE EVALUATING DEVICE, IMAGE EVALUATING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Provided is an image evaluation apparatus for evaluating each of a plurality of images, the images including objects that each belong to a cluster. The image evaluation apparatus calculates (i) a first value pertaining to an object appearing in an image (for instance, t... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317927 | CLUSTERING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CLUSTERING PROCESSING METHOD A clustering processing apparatus comprises: N clustering units that group samples included in the data block into clusters, each clustering unit sequentially taking each sample as a target, grouping the target sample into one of the clusters within the data block, stor... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110305399 | IMAGE CLUSTERING A database of images may be accessed. A feature set may be computed for each image, respectively. Each feature set includes feature integers quantized from interest points of a corresponding image. An initial set of clusters of the feature sets is found based on min has... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110299787 | INVARIANT VISUAL SCENE AND OBJECT RECOGNITION A method for performing image recognition is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a collection of pixels and grouping at least some of the pixels into a set of cluster features based on gradient magnitude. For each cluster feature in the set, statistical variables a... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299786 | SAMPLING POSITION-FIXING SYSTEM In the case of collecting samples, it is difficult to select a representative point of a target area. Thus, the samples are collected from certain positions, resulting in generation of variations of data. The target area is specified on an image to extract features from... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110286676 | SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL GESTURE RECOGNITION IN VEHICLES A method and system for performing gesture recognition of a vehicle occupant employing a time of flight (TOF) sensor and a computing system in a vehicle. An embodiment of the method of the invention includes the steps of receiving one or more raw frames from the TOF sen... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110268316 | MULTIPLE CENTROID CONDENSATION OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION CLOUDS Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying objects captured by a depth camera by condensing classified image data into centroids of probability that captured objects are correctly identified entities. Output exemplars are processed to detect spatially localized c... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110249905 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTING DATA FROM ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS INCLUDING TABLES A method of automatically extracting data from an electronic document including tables is provided. The method includes: automatically identifying rows of the table using gaps in horizontal projections of the plurality of image sections, wherein at least some of the ide... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249904 | FACE CLUSTERING DEVICE, FACE CLUSTERING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Provided is a face clustering device that detects a face included in an image, detects a direction of the detected face, detects, taking into account the detected direction of the face, a face with a similar feature and forms a collection of pieces of face information s... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235926 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM An information processing apparatus, which creates a tree structure used by a recognition apparatus which recognizes specific information using the tree structure, including a memory unit which stores data including the information to be recognized and data not includin... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235858 | Grouping Digital Media Items Based on Shared Features Methods, apparatuses, and systems for grouping digital media items based on shared features. Multiple digital images are received. Metadata about the digital images is obtained either by analyzing the digital images or by receiving metadata from a source separate from t... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110222787 | FRAME SEQUENCE COMPARISON IN MULTIMEDIA STREAMS In some embodiments, the technology compares multimedia content to other multimedia content via a content analysis server. In other embodiments, the technology includes a system and/or a method of comparing video sequences. The comparison includes receiving a first list... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110211764 | Social Network System with Recommendations A social network application may identify images having common links between a first user's image collection and a second user's image collection. The common links may be identified through metadata or similar portions of the images. Using the first user's image collect... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110182522 | METHOD FOR MULTI-LAYER CLASSIFIER The present invention relates to a method for multi-layer classifier applying on a computer readable medium for classifying multiple image samples. The method at least comprising the following steps: (a) receiving a plurality of samples; (b) providing a plurality of att... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110123124 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN IMAGE COLLECTION A method of generating an image collection is described. A plurality of images are retrieved (step 202) and the images are divided into clusters according to a predetermined characteristic of the content of the images (step 204). At least one of the cluste... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110103700 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION DEVICE AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM An image classification device includes a characteristic value set calculation unit 11 that calculates a characteristic value set of the whole image for each of multiple sets of image data in an image database 51, detects an edge of the set of the image da... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110097001 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED VISUALIZATION METHOD A method, system and computer product for visualizing affinities between objects. The method includes the steps of: forming a representation of a minimum spanning tree where the minimum spanning tree connects the plurality of objects based on a pairwise distance between... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110085739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMILARITY SEARCH OF IMAGES A system and method for an efficient semantic similarity search of images with a classification structure are provided. The system and method provide for building a semantic classification-search tree for the plurality of images, the classification tree including at lea... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110044549 | GENERATION OF VIDEO CONTENT FROM IMAGE SETS An image processing method comprises: clustering images of a set of images to generate a plurality of scenes each comprising an unordered cluster of images; ordering images within scenes respective to video coherence to generate ordered scenes comprising ordered sequenc... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110038550 | Automatic Creation Of A Scalable Relevance Ordered Representation Of An Image Collection In a method of automatically creating a scalable relevance ordered representation of an image collection, the images in the image collection are classified into a plurality of clusters based upon a feature of the images. In addition, respective relevance levels of the i... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110026841 | CLUSTERING PROCESSING METHOD, CLUSTERING PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM A clustering processing method for dividing a samples into a plurality of clusters based on a feature amount of each sample, the plurality of clusters each belonging to one of a plurality of layers composed of M layers (M=2, . . . , K), the clustering processing method ... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110019928 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Every time clustering processing for a predetermined number of pixels is complete, a small cluster having the number of allocated pixels, which is equal to or smaller than a pixel count threshold, is discriminated. The small cluster, which is discriminated to have the n... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019927 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM The performance of image processing is assured by executing region segmentation of an image at high speed. Pixels are classified into clusters conforming to a feature such as color. In a case where a suitable cluster for classifying a pixel is undefined, a new cluster i... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110007975 | Image Display Apparatus and Image Display Method According to embodiments, an image display apparatus includes: a face detection processing section configured to detect face areas included in video content to generate face cut-out images including the face areas; a face clustering processing section configured to grou... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100277481 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ANIMATION PLANNING FOR A DYNAMIC GRAPH A method and apparatus of animation planning for a dynamic graph is provided. A first method includes grouping changed nodes into atomic partitions according to the relationships between the changed nodes and existing nodes. The next step is clustering the atomic partit... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100271395 | REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE SELECTION METHOD A person cluster selection part selects one or more person clusters as representative person clusters in order of largest number of facial images included therein. A unit selection part selects, from each representative person cluster, (i) a unit having the highest like... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100246959 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT MOVING PICTURE CONTENT An apparatus and method for generating additional information about moving picture content, including: comparing image feature information about each image frame in moving picture content with image feature information about each image frame in web information, searchin... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100232719 | Shape Clustering in Post Optical Character Recognition Processing Techniques for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process.... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100232718 | ENERGY MINIMIZATION FOR CLASSIFICATION, PATTERN RECOGNITION, SENSOR FUSION, DATA COMPRESSION, NETWORK RECONSTRUCTION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING A data analyzer/classifier comprises using a preprocessing step, and energy minimization step, and a postprocessing step to analyze/classify data.... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100226584 | Method of Grouping Images by Face A method of browsing face regions in digital images in a photo displaying system includes detecting a plurality of face regions from a plurality of images, grouping the face regions into a plurality of clusters based on similarities of the face regions, determining a de... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100215281 | Clustering-Scheme-Encoded Interfaces Providing Orientation Feedback Clustering-definition-based encoding schemes printed as a computer-oriented digital layer onto a physical surface whereby the surface functions as an interface enabling, via a simple image-acquisition device scanning a minimal field required to establish the clustering ... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100202686 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM A clustering unit calculates, for clusters in a descending order of the number of pixels belonging thereto, a distance from a feature vector of a processing object pixel and a representative feature vector of an object cluster, and compares the distance with a first thr... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100172555 | FEATURE QUANTITY SELECTION METHOD, FEATURE QUANTITY SELECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, IMAGE CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A control unit (41) included in an image classification apparatus of the present invention performs a step of clustering a plurality of training images for each of a plurality of combination patterns of a plurality of feature quantities that an image has, and a s... | 07/08/2010 |
