Abstract: An information processing apparatus creates, for each of a plurality of nodes, a query to be executed for a learning pattern input to the node; inputs a plurality of learning patterns to a root node of the plurality of nodes; executes, for the learning pattern input to each node, the query created for the node; determines whether the query has been effectively executed for the individual learning pattern input to each node; distributes and inputs, to a lower node of each node, an individual learning pattern for which it has been determined in the determining that the query was effectively executed in the node; deletes a learning pattern for which it has been determined in the determining that the query was not effectively executed in each node; and stores an attribute of the learning pattern input to a terminal node of the plurality of nodes in association with the node.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, for training a classifier that classifies local regions of an object, includes a feature amount setting unit, a selection unit, and a training unit. The feature amount setting unit sets a feature amount to be used by the classifier. The selection unit selects a local region of the object based on a predetermined selection condition based on positions for obtaining the feature amount set by the feature amount setting unit. The training unit trains the classifier using the feature amount set by the feature amount setting unit and the local region selected by the selection unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a creation unit adapted to create a query string, which is composed of a plurality of queries; a reading unit adapted to read, from the query string, a query corresponding to a hierarchy of a current node in accordance with the hierarchy; a generation unit adapted to generate a plurality of nodes having a tree structure by dividing a learning pattern set in the current node in accordance with the read query corresponding to the hierarchy; and a modifying unit adapted to modify the tree structure by putting nodes in each hierarchy together into a common node with respect to nodes up to a hierarchy corresponding to a length of the query string among the nodes having the tree structure, which have been generated by the generation unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that discriminates the orientation of a target includes a calculation unit that calculates a distribution of a difference in feature amount between a plurality of learning patterns each showing the orientation of a target, a determination unit that determines, using a probability distribution obtained from the distribution of differences calculated by the calculation unit, a pixel that is in an input pattern and is to be referred to in order to discriminate the orientation of a target in the input pattern, and a discrimination unit that performs discrimination for obtaining the orientation of the target in the input pattern by comparing a feature amount of the pixel determined by the determination unit and a threshold set in advance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of generating a database of effective light source shapes including a generation step of generating an initial database representing an effective light source shapes corresponding to a plurality of conditions settable for an illumination optical system, a measurement step of setting an arbitrary condition for the illumination optical system, and measuring an effective light source shape, a calculation step of calculating a difference amount between an effective light source shape when each of the plurality of conditions is set for the illumination optical system and the effective light source shape included in the initial database, and a correction step of correcting the effective light source shapes included in the initial database using the difference amounts and compiling the corrected effective light source shapes into an actual database.

Abstract: A multi view-point image composed of a great number of images according to a shape of an object is generated or an information processing method used for generating a three-dimensional model or performing image processing of arbitrary view-point object recognition is provided, and based on a plurality of captured images obtained by imaging of the object from a plurality of view points by an imaging means, a relative position and orientation with respect to the object relative to the imaging means for each of the plurality of view points is calculated, and based on the calculated plurality of relative positions and orientations, a missing position and orientation of the imaging means in a direction in which imaging by the imaging means is missing is calculated, and an image used for displaying the calculated missing position and orientation on a display means is generated.

Abstract: A nucleic acid probe for classification of pathogenic bacterial species is capable of collectively detecting bacterial strains of the same species and differentially detecting them from other bacterial species. Any one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 84 to 86 and complementary or modified sequences thereof or a combination of at least two of them is used for detecting the gene of an infectious disease pathogenic bacterium.

Abstract: A nucleic acid probe for classification of pathogenic bacterial species is capable of collectively detecting bacterial strains of the same species and differentially detecting them from other bacterial species. Any one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 90 to 91 and complementary or modified sequences thereof or a combination of at least two of them is used for detecting the gene of an infectious disease pathogenic bacterium.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus creates, for each of a plurality of nodes, a query to be executed for a learning pattern input to the node; inputs a plurality of learning patterns to a root node of the plurality of nodes; executes, for the learning pattern input to each node, the query created for the node; determines whether the query has been effectively executed for the individual learning pattern input to each node; distributes and inputs, to a lower node of each node, an individual learning pattern for which it has been determined in the determining that the query was effectively executed in the node; deletes a learning pattern for which it has been determined in the determining that the query was not effectively executed in each node; and stores an attribute of the learning pattern input to a terminal node of the plurality of nodes in association with the node.

Abstract: A nucleic acid probe for classification of pathogenic bacterial species is capable of collectively detecting bacterial strains of the same species and differentially detecting them from other bacterial species. Any one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 76 to 77 and complementary or modified sequences thereof or a combination of at least two of them is used for detecting the gene of an infectious disease pathogenic bacterium.

Abstract: A nucleic acid probe for classification of pathogenic bacterial species is capable of collectively detecting bacterial strains of the same species and differentially detecting them from other bacterial species. Any one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 68 to 69 and complementary or modified sequences thereof or a combination of at least two of them is used for detecting the gene of an infectious disease pathogenic bacterium.

Abstract: An image recognition apparatus is provided which comprises a first extracting means for extracting, from every registration image previously registered, a set of registration partial images of a predetermined size, and a second extracting means for extracting, from an input new image, a set of new partial images of a predetermined size. The apparatus further comprises a discriminating means for discriminating an attribute of the new partial image based on a rule formed by dividing the set of the registration partial images extracted by the first extracting means, and a collecting means for deriving a final recognition result of the new image by collecting discrimination results by the discriminating means at the time when the new partial images as elements of the set of the new partial images are input.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a registration unit adapted to register information required to determine at least one specific pattern in an image; an input unit adapted to input image data; a first generation unit adapted to extract a predetermined feature distribution from the input image data, and to generate a first feature distribution map indicating the feature distribution; a second generation unit adapted to generate a second feature distribution map by applying a conversion required to relax localities of the first feature distribution map to the first feature distribution map; and a determination unit adapted to determine, using sampling data on the second feature distribution map and the registered information, which of the specific patterns the image data matches.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises: a creation unit adapted to create a query string, which is composed of a plurality of queries; a reading unit adapted to read, from the query string, a query corresponding to a hierarchy of a current node in accordance with the hierarchy; a generation unit adapted to generate a plurality of nodes having a tree structure by dividing a learning pattern set in the current node in accordance with the read query corresponding to the hierarchy; and a modifying unit adapted to modify the tree structure by putting nodes in each hierarchy together into a common node with respect to nodes up to a hierarchy corresponding to a length of the query string among the nodes having the tree structure, which have been generated by the generation unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that discriminates the orientation of a target includes a calculation unit that calculates a distribution of a difference in feature amount between a plurality of learning patterns each showing the orientation of a target, a determination unit that determines, using a probability distribution obtained from the distribution of differences calculated by the calculation unit, a pixel that is in an input pattern and is to be referred to in order to discriminate the orientation of a target in the input pattern, and a discrimination unit that performs discrimination for obtaining the orientation of the target in the input pattern by comparing a feature amount of the pixel determined by the determination unit and a threshold set in advance.

Abstract: A nucleic acid probe for classification of pathogenic bacterial species is capable of collectively detecting bacterial strains of the same species and differentially detecting them from other bacterial species. Any one of the base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 81 to 83 and complementary or modified sequences thereof or a combination of at least two of them is used for detecting the gene of an infectious disease pathogenic bacterium.

Abstract: An information processing method includes detecting a partial area configuring a target object from an input image, evaluating appropriateness of the detection result, voting with respect to the target object based on the detection result and the evaluation result, and identifying an attribute of the target object based on the voting result.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for estimating a position and orientation of a target object in a three-dimensional space, inputs a plurality of captured images obtained by imaging the target object from a plurality of viewpoints, clips, for each of the input captured images, a partial image corresponding to a region occupied by a predetermined partial space in the three-dimensional space, from the captured image, extracts, from a plurality of partial images clipped from the plurality of captured images, feature information indicating a feature of the plurality of partial images, stores dictionary information indicating a position and orientation of an object in association with feature information of the object corresponding to the position and orientation, and estimates the position and orientation of the target object by comparing the feature information of the extracted target object and the feature information indicated in the dictionary information.

Abstract: An infectious etiologic agent detection probe set which detects an infectious etiologic agent gene, includes a plurality of kinds of probes including oligonucleotide having base sequences selected from each of a plurality of groups selected from a first group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 1 to 14 and complementary sequences thereof, a second group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 15 to 24 and complementary sequences thereof, a third group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 25 to 36 and complementary sequences thereof, a fourth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 37 to 47 and complementary sequences thereof, a fifth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 48 to 57 and complementary sequences thereof, a sixth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 58 to 68 and complementary sequences thereof, a seventh group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos. 69 to 77 and complementary sequences thereof, an eighth group including base sequences of SEQ ID Nos.

Abstract: A method for information processing includes a learning process to generate a tree structured dictionary based on a plurality of patterns including a target object to be recognized. The method includes selecting a plurality of points from an input pattern based on a distribution of a probability that the target object to be recognized is present in the input pattern at each node of a tree structure generated in the learning process, and classifying the input pattern into a branch based on a value of a predetermined function that corresponds to values of the input pattern at selected plurality of points.