Abstract: A method and apparatus for capturing, sorting and subsequently viewing an orbital image record of a vehicle, the method comprising the steps, in any suitable order, of using imaging means (11,15) to capture an orbital moving image record of the vehicle in various orientations relative to the imaging means, storing and sorting the captured orbital image record for each vehicle by reference to a unique identifier for that vehicle externally visible to the imaging means during image capture, such as the vehicle licence or registration number, to provide a continuous image record unique to the vehicle, and thereafter selectively displaying (12) orbital images of the vehicle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for updating and/or for initializing, in a system comprising an image sensor oriented towards the horizon such as a pair of binoculars coupled to a geographical north seeker incorporating a gyrometer, a value representative of the orientation of the image sensor with respect to north, in which the shift of two images arising from the digital image sensor is determined at a first instant and at a second instant that are distinct so as to construct an item of information representative of an angular movement, and in which this angular movement information is utilized to: update the value of orientation of the image sensor;—and/or to discriminate the movements of the image sensor with respect to the ground from the movements of the image sensor that are due to the rotation of the earth, in a process for initializing the value of orientation of the image sensor using a north seeker of gyroscopic or gyrometric type rigidly tied to the image sensor.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant breeding and concerns a method for determining the point at which a plant starts to flower. More specifically, the invention concerns a method for determining the start of flowering on an individual plant basis by measuring the reproductive structures of plants from digital images of these structures and deducing the start of flowering from the measurements and average growth rates. The invention also concerns apparatus for determining the start of flowering in plants, particularly in a high-throughput manner.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises, a management unit configured to classify a face feature information of a face region of an object extracted from image data into a predetermined category in accordance with similarity, and manage the face feature information in a dictionary, a condition setting unit configured to set category determination conditions for classifying the face feature information into the category in accordance with individual information representing at least one of an age and sex of the object and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the category determination conditions set by the condition setting unit, a category to which the face feature information belongs in the dictionary.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object from image data, and a processing unit configured to perform processing for the object detected by the detection unit. The detection unit includes a first detection unit and a second detection unit having a detection tolerance wider than that of the first detection unit, and the object is detected by selecting the first detection unit or the second detection unit in accordance with the contents of the processing to be performed by the processing unit.

Abstract: A command input method of a terminal includes: acquiring an image including a user's face region through a camera; detecting a mouth region from the user's face region; inputting a command to the terminal or to an application being executed in the terminal if a mouth gesture of the mouth region is identical to an unlock gesture stored in the terminal. The user may make the same mouth gesture as a pre-set unlock gesture, or make a mouth gesture corresponding to an authentication message displayed on a display panel of the terminal. The command may be an unlock command for unlocking the terminal or the application or a command for executing a predetermined function while unlocking the terminal or the application.

Abstract: Provided is a method of detecting lip activity. The method determines magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region of a detected face. The ratio of magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region is compared against a threshold. If the ratio is found to be greater than the threshold, lip activity of the detected face is recognized.

Abstract: An image verification device that checks an input image obtained by photographing an object to be checked against a registered image database, wherein, in the registered image database, an amount of feature of an image obtained by photographing an object is registered as a registered image, and the registered image includes registered images registered with respect to a plurality of objects, has a verification score calculating unit that calculates a verification score serving as a score representing a degree of approximation between the objects indicated by the registered images and the object of the input image by using the amount of feature of the input image and the amounts of feature of the registered images, and a relative evaluation score calculating unit.

Abstract: A method is provided for recording a user's handwritten signature through a device including a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes a phase of obtaining a handwritten signature, which includes at least one step of acquiring the handwritten signature on the touch-sensitive surface of the device, delivering an acquired signature and at least one step of recording the acquired signature within a signature-recording space. During the phase of obtaining the handwritten signature, the method includes at least one step of measuring at least one piece of complementary data through the device and at least one step of recording the at least one piece of complementary data.

Abstract: A method facilitates viewing of DICOM medical images by providing a 16-bit DICOM image on a computer readable storage medium, text-converted metadata of the DICOM image and an htrnl-compatible conversion of the DICOM pixel data on a computer readable storage medium. Pixel data of the DICOM image is converted by dividing the 16-bit image into two 8-bit color channels stored in an image referenced by a web page using a uniform resource locator. The two 8-bit color channels are later reassembled within a portable web browser according to instructions set forth in computer readable program code associated with the web page.

Abstract: Certain embodiments provide a computer system operable to determine a registration mapping between a first medical image and a second medical image, the computer system comprising: a storage device for storing data representing the first medical image and the second medical image; and a processor unit operable to execute machine readable instructions to: (a) identify a plurality of elements in the first medical image; (b) determine a spatial mapping from each element in the first medical image to a corresponding element in the second medical image to provide a plurality of spatial mappings subject to a consistency constraint; and (c) determine a registration mapping between the first medical image and the second medical image based on the plurality of spatial mappings from the respective elements of the first medical image to the corresponding elements of the second medical image.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for determining a skin inflammation value. The apparatus comprises an optoelectronic measuring device, preferably a 3D scanner, for recording a three-dimensional image of an inflammation region on human or animal skin, wherein area-related, spatial, and color values of the three-dimensional image can be detected by the optoelectronic measuring device, a computing unit for calculating the skin inflammation value from the area-related, spatial, and color values detected by the measuring device, and a display unit for displaying the calculated skin inflammation value.

Abstract: A diagnostic system comprises: a spectral imaging means that captures a spectral image within a predetermined wavelength range in a body cavity and obtains spectral image data; an image processing means that receives the spectral image data, determines an index value indicating a region that is highly likely to be a lesion from the spectral image data, and generates and outputs an extracted lesion image based on the index value; and a monitor on which the extracted lesion image is displayed. The image processing means performs multiple regression analysis for each pixel of the spectral image with the spectral image data as a dependent variable and respective light absorption properties of oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin as independent variables, and determines the index value based on respective concentrations of the oxyhemoglobin and the deoxyhemoglobin.

Abstract: A method for processing data includes receiving a temporal sequence of depth maps of a scene containing a humanoid form having a head. The depth maps include a matrix of pixels having respective pixel depth values. A digital processor processes at least one of the depth maps so as to find a location of the head and estimates dimensions of the humanoid form based on the location. The processor tracks movements of the humanoid form over the sequence using the estimated dimensions.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for correcting artifacts in measured image data due to differential scatter rejection in a computed tomography system is provided. A system for correcting artifacts in measured image data due to differential scatter rejection in a computed tomography system is also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus for multi-energy tissue quantification includes an x-ray imaging system comprises an x-ray source configured to emit a beam of x-rays toward an object to be imaged, a detector configured to receive the x-rays attenuated by the object, and a data acquisition system (DAS) operably coupled to the detector. A computer operably connected to the x-ray source and the DAS is programmed to cause the x-ray source to emit x-rays at each of a first kVp and a second kVp toward the detector, acquire x-ray data from x-rays emitted at the first and second kVp through a region of interest (ROI), and perform a first multi-material decomposition based on the acquired x-ray data. The computer is also programmed to quantify a volume fraction of a first material in the ROI based on the first multi-material decomposition and display the volume fraction of the first material to a user.

Abstract: A method for extraction of a dataset from a medical image dataset is disclosed. A first image dataset, of a body recorded with a first medical modality, is provided which contains first information about a first organ structure. A second image dataset of the body, created with a second medical modality, is provided which contains second information about the first organ structure and about a second organ structure. The second information does not allow a distinction between the first organ structure and the second organ structure. The first image dataset and the second image dataset are processed together with each other such that it is made possible by the processing to separately identify the first organ structure and the second organ structure in the second image dataset.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an imaging technique and an imaging system and more particularly to an automatic assessment of quantitative measure(s)/properties(s) of an object wherein, for example, an imaging system is used to capture an image, following which image properties are quantified using image processing techniques. An imaging technique obtains an image of an object along a first axis, or by way of a first technique, and subsequently obtains an image of the object along a second axis, or by way of a second technique. One or more pixels from the first image are selected and designated as reference pixels. An automated comparison between corresponding regions of the first and second images are then performed which is based upon the reference pixels, so as to indicate regions of interest.

Abstract: A method for isolating a potential anomaly in imaging data is disclosed, the method comprising providing a set of at least one given anomaly property representative of a given anomaly; providing a anomaly property identifier for identifying each of the at least one given anomaly property; in the imaging data, isolating a first zone having a first property and a group of at least one other zone, each of the at least one other zone having a corresponding property different than the first property; in the imaging data, and resulting from the isolation of a first zone and a group of at least one other zone, providing a transition zone selected from a group consisting of: a closed zone separating the first zone and the group of at least one other zone; and a closed zone extending in one of the first zone and the group of at least one other zone; applying the anomaly property identifier for identifying each of the at least one given anomaly property on at least the transition zone for providing a computed indicatio

Abstract: An imaging system for processing image data of an object containing a component. The imaging system includes an imaging device arranged to obtain image data and a processor. The processor is adapted to receive the image data from the imaging device, obtain a component model for the component, obtain an imaging device model for the imaging device, construct an unconstrained objective function based on the component model and the imaging device model, and construct a model of the object containing the component based on the unconstrained objective function and the image data, and a display device adapted to display an image for the object containing the component based on the model.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining image data for a patient. The image data corresponds to acquisition data from an imaging acquisition from a set of planned image acquisitions in an examination plan for the patient. The method further includes analyzing the image data with a processor based on an imaging practice guideline and producing electronically formatted data indicative of the analysis. The processor generates a signal indicative of a recommendation of a change to the examination plan based on the data indicative of the analysis.

Abstract: A system and method for improved detection of objects of interest in image data using adaptive stepwise classification and hierarchical decision diagrams to manage false positives is provided. The present invention uses an adaptive stepwise classification approach, preferably based on a hierarchical binary decision diagram (BDD), to enable the efficient management of false positive objects to improve detection performance. The present invention is particularly suited for the reduction of false positives during the detection of acid fast bacilli associated with tuberculosis.

Abstract: The recognition rate is improved and recognition errors are suppressed when recognizing magnetic ink characters. When the magnetic ink character 101 one character before the target character to which a magnetic recognition process is applied is not recognized, the character recognition unit 80 of a check reader 1 detects a different peak in a specific range before and after the position of the peak detected as the first peak of the one preceding magnetic ink character 101 in the signal waveform data, extracts character waveform data for the one preceding magnetic ink character 101 from the signal waveform data based on the position of the detected different peak, and applies the magnetic recognition process to the extracted character waveform data.

Abstract: An electronic drawing generation apparatus includes: a shape determination section to determine a necessary part, which needs to be subjected to simulation, in a substrate serving as a simulation target; and a shape edit section to cut out the necessary part determined by the shape determination section from an input electronic drawing so as to prepare an output electronic drawing. The shape determination section includes a design rule check section to determine a design-rule violating part as the necessary part based on design rules stored in a design rule database.

Abstract: A system and method for restricting the number of layout patterns by pattern identification, matching and classification, includes decomposing the pattern windows into a low frequency component and a high frequency component using a wavelet analysis for an integrated circuit layout having a plurality of pattern windows. Using the low frequency component as an approximation, a plurality of moments is computed for each pattern window. The pattern windows are classified using a distance computation for respective moments of the pattern windows by comparing the distance computation to an error value to determine similarities between the pattern windows.

Abstract: Representations of an object 110 in an image generated by an imaging apparatus 100 can comprise one or more potential compound objects 500, where a compound object comprises two or more separate sub-objects. Compound objects can negatively affect the quality of object visualization and/or make identifying threat objects more difficult, for example. Accordingly, as provided herein, a representation of a potential compound object 500 can be examined for separation into sub-objects. To do so, three-dimensional image data of a potential compound object 500 is projected to generate one or more Eigen projections 504, and segmentation is performed on the two-dimensional Eigen projection(s) to identify sub-objects. Once sub-objects are identified, the segmented Eigen projection(s) 900 is back-projected into three-dimensional space 1104 for further processing, for example.

Abstract: A three dimensional shape measurement apparatus includes m projecting sections, each of which includes a light source and a grating element, and, while moving the grating element by n times, projects a grating pattern light onto a measurement target for each movement, wherein the ‘n’ and the ‘m’ are natural numbers greater than or equal to 2, an imaging section photographing a grating pattern image reflected by the measurement target, and a control section controlling that, while photographing the grating pattern image by using one of the m projecting sections, a grating element of at least another projecting section is moved. Thus, measurement time may be reduced.

Abstract: A method of detecting a predefined set of characteristic points of a face from an image of the face includes a step of making the shape and/or the texture of a hierarchy of statistical models of face parts converge over real data supplied by the image of the face.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an image processing method and device. In the embodiments of the present invention, conversion processing is performed on an input image, which effectively eliminates an impact on image quality from such weather conditions as fog, dust-haze, sand storm and rain where atmospheric transparency is low, and can solve a problem in the prior art that image quality of a captured image or video is poor due to a scattering function of suspended particles in the atmosphere under such weather conditions as fog, dust-haze, sand storm and rain where atmospheric transparency is low, thereby improving contrast, saturation, and sharpness of an image or a video (namely, a multi-frame image). The technical solutions according to the present invention are easy to be implemented and have a low cost.

Abstract: Various arrangements for recognizing gestures are presented. A plurality of color images of a scene may be received. Each image of the plurality of color images may be processed to make a plurality of processed color images. The processing of an image of the plurality of color images may comprise grouping pixels of the image being processed into a plurality of clusters based on color. A gesture may be identified using movement of a cluster of the plurality of clusters in the plurality of processed color images.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for processing image data obtained by reading a document and a background image outside the document, and method of controlling the apparatus. The apparatus determines a degree of similarity between a color of the background image and a color of a marginal region of the document from the image data, sets a region extraction parameter based on the determined degree of similarity, and determines a document region by using the region extraction parameter from the image data.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for generating signatures for an image obtain an image, estimate a spectral image of the obtained image, calculate one or both of a detection component of the image and a residual component of the image, wherein the detection component of the image is based on the spectral image, a spectral-power distribution for a specific illuminant, and spectral sensitivities of a detector, and wherein calculating the residual component of the image is based on the spectral image, the spectral power distribution for the specific illuminant, and the spectral sensitivities of the detector or, alternatively, based on the spectral image and the calculated detection component, and generate an image signature based on one or both of the detection component and the residual component.

Abstract: Images of a layout target for a template are acquired. The plurality of acquired images are edited using editing processing corresponding to a category corresponding to a layout. The edited images are arranged on the template corresponding to the category.

Abstract: A method for compressing image data into a sequence of codes, the image data being represented by a plurality of input color vectors. The method includes a repetitive processing of one color vector at a time with the following steps: receiving one of the input color vectors; comparing the received input color vector with codebook words in a codebook, the codebook words being expressed as color vectors: compressing the received input color vector to generate a code based on the comparison; updating the codebook with a color vector, the color vector being generated by decoding the code; and outputting the code before receiving a next one of the input color vectors; wherein the updating may include rearranging the order of the codebook words based on the comparison.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image coding method is for coding an image including a luminance component and color difference components. The method includes acquiring a reference image; and generating a predicted image by interpolating the luminance component and the color difference components in the reference image according to a motion vector. If a size of a block, which is designated as a unit of the interpolation, is equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold value, the generating includes inhibiting a bi-directional prediction, and performing only a uni-directional prediction to generate the predicted image according to the motion vector.

Abstract: A color enhancement system may enhance color components in an image. In one embodiment, the color enhancement system suppresses banding by combining an input color value with an enhanced colored value. In another embodiment, local variation in saturation values around a pixel may be used to determine a modification of an input saturation value for color enhancement. As still another embodiment, flickering between frames may be suppressed by combining a histogram that counts the number of times a given pixel value occurs in a particular image with a historical histogram that keeps track of an average of how often given values have occurred in previous frames.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for enhancing a digital photographic image uses a combination of global and content-specific operations. Image data is analyzed to detect one or more content items in the image to be separately enhanced. Then a content-specific enhancement operation is performed on data representing at least one detected content item, separately from the remainder of the image data. Several such content-specific operations may be performed for different types of content item. The content-specific enhancement operation comprises manipulating data, and the manipulation applies different adjustments to different pixels in the detected content item and the determination of the adjustments is based solely on analysis of the image data. Then a different enhancement operation is performed on at least the remaining image data excluding said one or more detected content items.

Abstract: A method and system for generating image data representative of a person wearing one or more items of clothing includes using computing hardware to process data of one or more images of people wearing items of clothing to extract via segmentation processes data representative of the items of clothing; using computing hardware to process the data representative of the items of clothing to complete one or more missing parts of the data representative of the items of clothing to generate corresponding clothes data; using computing hardware to analyse an image of a target model to determine a pose of the target model in the image; and using computing hardware to metamorphose at least a portion of the clothes data to fit the image of the target model to generate metamorphosed clothes data, and to overlay the metamorphosed clothes data onto the image of the target model.

Abstract: This invention provides a technique which can enhance personal recognition precision in personal recognition processing of a face in an image. To this end, a management unit classifies feature patterns each including feature information of a plurality of parts of a face region of an object extracted from image data, and manages the feature patterns using a dictionary. A segmenting unit determines whether or not feature information of each part of the face region of the object is segmented, and segments the feature information of the part of interest into a plurality of feature information as new feature information. A registration unit registers a feature pattern as a combination of the new feature information of the part of interest and feature information of parts other than the part of interest in the dictionary as a new feature pattern of the object.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises: a specifying unit configured to specify, based on an image as a candidate of an output target, at least one object region satisfying a predetermined condition from the image; a determination unit configured to determine whether the object region specified in the image by the specifying unit is divided in the image; and a decision unit configured to decide the output target region in the image based on a determination result by the determination unit.

Abstract: A system for verifying and correcting errors after translation of printed text into machine-readable text. The system includes a memory for storing formulas defining relationships between data fields. A processor evaluates the formulas according to data values associated with the data fields to determine whether the formulas evaluate as truthful statements. The processor marks the data fields of the formulas as unverified or as verified based upon this evaluation. The system also uses the processor to calculate a determined value for data fields in an attempt to correct errors in the translation of the printed text into machine-readable text. If different determined values are calculated for the same data field, based upon different formulas, the data field is marked as uncertain. The system iterates based upon the marking of the data fields of the formulas as verified or unverified and as uncertain or not uncertain.

Abstract: A digital signature collection and authentication system includes an ink pen having an ultrasonic transmitter that transmits ultrasonic energy to a plurality of ultrasonic receivers. A computer triangulates the location of the pen versus time to generate the signature shape, and to generate velocity and acceleration data. The pen also includes a pressure sensitive tip to record pressure applied to the pen tip. The pen also includes a higher frequency burst transmitter useful to generate a time reference, and to transmit the pressure information. The computer packetizes the shape, velocity, acceleration, and pressure data with a time stamp and an IP address or phone number, encrypts the packet and sends it to a host computer for authentication. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method includes a state determination step of determining the quality of an object in image data, an extraction step of extracting feature information from the object, and a registration step of registering, in a dictionary, the feature information extracted in the extraction step. In the registration step, when the quality of the object determined in the determination step is lower than a predetermined reference, registration of the feature information of the object in the dictionary by the registration step is not performed.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an image block generator, a pixel extractor, a correction parameter calculator and a corrector. The image block generator enlarges an image block including a plurality of pixels to generate an enlarged image block. The pixel extractor extracts a maximum pixel with a maximum pixel value and a minimum pixel with a minimum pixel value from the image block. The correction parameter calculator calculates a correction parameter including a first difference and a second difference. The first difference is an absolute value of a difference between a sample pixel value of a sample pixel to be corrected in the enlarged image block and the maximum pixel value. The second difference is an absolute value of a difference between the sample pixel value and the minimum pixel value. The corrector corrects the enlarged image block using the correction parameter.

Abstract: Techniques for tracking one or more objects at each position in an interval in a video input with the use of a Kalman filter, including obtaining a first location estimate of an object with an object detector, obtaining a second location estimate and a movement estimate of the object with an object tracker, determining a final estimate of a position and/or a velocity of the object with the Kalman filter.

Abstract: In a control apparatus, a controller operates as: identifying a reading condition instructed for reading an image from a document; and determining a method of an analysis processing, the identifying including identifying a reading section instructed to read an image from the document. If an identified reading condition satisfies a first condition including that an identified reading section is a first reading section configured to read an image from a document while maintaining the document to be stationary, a first analysis processing configured to extract a first type region from a read out image is determined. If the identified reading condition satisfies a second condition including that the identified reading section is a second reading section configured to read an image from the document while conveying the document, a second analysis processing configured to extract a second type region from the read out image is determined.

Abstract: An apparatus extracts feature information from an object of image data. The apparatus registers the extracted feature information in a dictionary. The apparatus refers to the dictionary and determines a similarity between feature information registered in the dictionary and the extracted feature information. The apparatus does not use, of feature information to be registered in the dictionary, feature information not satisfying a predetermined evaluation criterion in similarity determination.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a determination unit configured to determine, based on a region that satisfies a predetermined condition in an image as a candidate of an output target, whether to set the region as the output target; and a decision unit configured to, in a case where a plurality of regions that satisfy the predetermined condition exists in the image, decide a portion of the image including one or a plurality of regions determined, out of the plurality of regions, as the output target by said determination unit as a portion of the output target.

Abstract: A pixel set formation unit in an image analysis unit of an image processing device forms pixel sets from original images subject to analysis. A principal analysis unit of the image analysis unit performs principal component analysis in units of pixel sets. A synthesis unit synthesizes results of analysis in units of pixel sets so as to generate images of eigenvectors of a size of the original images. An image generation unit displays the images of the eigenvectors and stores data for an image generated by using the images of the eigenvectors in a generated image storage unit.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first and second setting unit, an association unit, a first determination unit, and an arrangement unit. The first setting unit sets an image reference point of arrangement for each image where one or more images are arranged in an image arrangement region. The second setting unit sets a same or more number of arrangement reference points than a number of images to be arranged, where a region where the image reference point can be disposed is set in the image arrangement region. The association unit associates each image with a set arrangement reference point. The first determination unit determines a region where the image reference point of the associated image can be disposed based on a size and a position. The arrangement unit arranges the image in the image arrangement region by disposing the image reference point in a determined region where they can be disposed.