Patents by Inventor Rhodi Davies

Rhodi Davies 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).

  • Publication number: 20050027492
    Abstract: A method of building a statistical shape model by automatically establishing correspondence between a set of two dimensional shapes or three dimensional shapes, the method comprising: a) determining a parameterisation of each shape, building a statistical shape model using the parameterisation, using an objective function to provide an output which indicates the quality of the statistical shape model; performing step a) repeatedly for different parameterisations and comparing the quality of the resulting statistical shape models using output of the objective function to determine which parameterisation provides the statistical shape model having the best quality, wherein the output of the objective function is a measure of the quantity of information required to code the set of shapes using the statistical shape model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Christopher Taylor, Rhodi Davies, Timothy Cootes, Carole Twining