Patents by Inventor Brice Follet

Brice Follet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8437543
    Abstract: The invention proposes a method and a device of determining a saliency map for an image. The proposed method uses a processing device for executing the steps of: selecting one of at least two different predetermined weight sets each associated with the predetermined scene category by determining to which of the predetermined scene categories a scene depicted in the image belongs, each predetermined weight sets comprising weights for color dependent subbands, splitting the image into color dependent frequency subbands and orientation subbands by splitting the image into color components and applying wavelet transformation to each color component, determining early feature maps for the subbands by extracting visual features from the wavelet transforms by a center-surround mechanism based on a Difference of Gaussian, weighting the early feature maps using the selected weight set and fusing the weighted feature maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Christel Chamaret, Fabrice Urban, Brice Follet
  • Publication number: 20130028511
    Abstract: The invention proposes a method and a device of determining a saliency map for an image. The proposed method uses a processing device for executing the steps of: selecting one of at least two different predetermined weight sets each associated with the predetermined scene category by determining to which of the predetermined scene categories a scene depicted in the image belongs, each predetermined weight sets comprising weights for colour dependent subbands, splitting the image into colour dependent frequency subbands and orientation subbands by splitting the image into colour components and applying wavelet transformation to each colour component, determining early feature maps for the subbands by extracting visual features from the wavelet transforms by a center-surround mechanism based on a Difference of Gaussian, weighting the early feature maps using the selected weight set and fusing the weighted feature maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Christel Chamaret, Fabrice Urban, Brice Follet