Patents by Inventor MICHAEL ILIADIS

MICHAEL ILIADIS 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: 9576224
    Abstract: The present invention provides a face recognition method on a computing device, comprising: storing a plurality of training face images, each training face image corresponding to a face class; obtaining one or more face test samples; applying a representation model to represent the face test sample as a combination of the training face images and error terms, wherein a coefficient vector is corresponded to the training face images; estimating the coefficient vector and the error terms by solving a constrained optimization problem; computing a residual error for each face class, the residual error for a face class being an error between the face test sample and the face test sample's representation model represented by the training samples in the face class; classifying the face test sample by selecting the face class that yields the minimal residual error; and presenting the face class of the face test sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Michael Iliadis, Haohong Wang
  • Patent number: 9430694
    Abstract: A face recognition method is provided. The method includes dividing an input video into different sets of frames and detecting faces of each frame in the input video. The method also includes generating face tracks for the whole video. Further, the method includes applying a robust collaborative representation-based classifier to recover a clean image from complex occlusions and corruptions for a face test sample and perform classification. In addition, the method also includes outputting the video containing the recognized face images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Michael Iliadis, Haohong Wang
  • Patent number: 9430697
    Abstract: The present invention provides a face recognition method. The method includes obtaining a plurality of training face images which belongs to a plurality of face classes and obtaining a plurality of training dictionaries corresponding to the training face images. A face class includes one or more training face images. The training dictionaries include a plurality of deep feature matrices. The method further includes obtaining an input face image. The input face image is partitioned into a plurality of blocks, whose corresponding deep feature vectors are extracted using a deep learning network. A collaborative representation model is applied to represent the deep feature vectors with the training dictionaries and representation vectors. A summation of errors for all blocks corresponding to a face class is computed as a residual error for the face class. The input face image is classified by selecting the face class that yields a minimum residual error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Michael Iliadis, Armin Kappeler, Haohong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160189006
    Abstract: The present invention provides a face recognition method on a computing device, comprising: storing a plurality of training face images, each training face image corresponding to a face class; obtaining one or more face test samples; applying a representation model to represent the face test sample as a combination of the training face images and error terms, wherein a coefficient vector is corresponded to the training face images; estimating the coefficient vector and the error terms by solving a constrained optimization problem; computing a residual error for each face class, the residual error for a face class being an error between the face test sample and the face test sample's representation model represented by the training samples in the face class; classifying the face test sample by selecting the face class that yields the minimal residual error; and presenting the face class of the face test sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: MICHAEL ILIADIS, HAOHONG WANG
  • Publication number: 20160132717
    Abstract: A face recognition method is provided. The method includes dividing an input video into different sets of frames and detecting faces of each frame in the input video. The method also includes generating face tracks for the whole video. Further, the method includes applying a robust collaborative representation-based classifier to recover a clean image from complex occlusions and corruptions for a face test sample and perform classification. In addition, the method also includes outputting the video containing the recognized face images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: MICHAEL ILIADIS, HAOHONG WANG
  • Patent number: 9275309
    Abstract: A face recognition method is provided to use sparse representation and regularized least squares-based classification on a computing device. The method includes obtaining an image to be recognized as a test sample y and a set of training images of certain subjects as training sample matrix T, obtaining a sparse representation of the test sample and the training samples including an initial estimation of a sparse vector a, and constructing a new face dictionary comprising training samples with non-zero corresponding coefficients in the sparse vector a for the initial estimation. The method also includes obtaining new coefficients by solving a regularized least squares problem based on the constructed new face dictionary, and determining a face identity of the test sample based on minimum class residual calculated by using the new coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Michael Iliadis, Haohong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160034789
    Abstract: A face recognition method is provided to use sparse representation and regularized least squares-based classification on a computing device. The method includes obtaining an image to be recognized as a test sample y and a set of training images of certain subjects as training sample matrix T, obtaining a sparse representation of the test sample and the training samples including an initial estimation of a sparse vector a, and constructing a new face dictionary comprising training samples with non-zero corresponding coefficients in the sparse vector a for the initial estimation. The method also includes obtaining new coefficients by solving a regularized least squares problem based on the constructed new face dictionary, and determining a face identity of the test sample based on minimum class residual calculated by using the new coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: MICHAEL ILIADIS, HAOHONG WANG