Opportunity to view an object in image processing
AssigneeBoohma Technologies LLC
InventorShawn Spooner
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Abstract
Image processing of an image is used to determine the opportunity to view an object. Rather than relying on simple numbers passing an object, the opportunity to view the object is weighted based on attention, which is derived from other objects competing for attention. For the processor to more accurately determine opportunity to view as compared to using geometric information alone, a machine-learned network is used. To deal with changes in obstructions, another machine-learned network may extract obstructions from camera images. Trace data is used to allow for daily variation in base counts of viewers, allowing greater temporal resolution and determination based on information more recently acquired than counts.
Claims16
A method for determining an opportunity to view a first object in an image processing system, the method comprising:
- linking a travel path to the first object based on a geometrical relationship of the travel path to the first object;
- loading camera images from along the travel path linked to the first object;
- identifying, by a first machine-learned network, the first object and other objects in the camera images, the identifying correcting the linking where the first object is not identified;
- randomly perturbing a center of focus of the camera images;
- determining a likelihood of viewing the first object from the perturbed center of focus and from attention determined by a second machine-learned network, the second machine-learned network being a generative adversarial network trained to indicate attention over space based on the first object and other objects and the camera images;
- outputting the opportunity to view the first object based on the likelihood.
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