Fast Method of Object Detection by Statistical Template Matching
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsAlexander Sibiryakov, Miroslaw Bober
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Abstract
A method of detecting an object in an image comprises comparing a template with a region of an image and determining a similarity measure, wherein the similarity measure is determined using a statistical measure. The template comprises a number of regions corresponding to parts of the object and their spatial relations. The variance of the pixels within the total template is set in relation to the variances of the pixels in all individual regions, to provide a similarity measure.
Claims42
A method of detecting an object in an image comprising comparing a template with a region of an image and determining a similarity measure, wherein the similarity measure is determined using a statistical measure.
The method of any preceding claim for detecting facial features and/or faces.
The method of any preceding claim for detecting features in satellite images, geographical images or the like.
The method of any preceding claim for detecting fiduciary marks, road markings, watermarks or the like.
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