Patents Assigned to Technion Research & Development Foundation L'
  • Facial recognition and the open mouth problem
    Patent number: 8155400
    Abstract: A method of cropping a representation of a face for electronic processing, said method comprising: selecting a first geodesic contour about an invariant reference point on said face, setting a region within said first geodesic contour as a first mask, selecting a second geodesic contour about a boundary of said identified first region, setting a region within said second geodesic contour as a second mask, and forming a final mask from a union of said first mask and said second mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation L'
    Inventors: Michael Bronstein, Alexander Bronstein, Ron Kimmel