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US 2022/0027683 A1Published application
A method, software product, device and system for integrating images
AssigneeSaab AB
InventorsErasmus CEDERNAES, Joakim LINDÉN
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InventorsErasmus CEDERNAES, Joakim LINDÉN
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The invention relates to a method for image integration (100), said method comprising the steps of acquiring at least two overlapping images (110) having different properties, and forming at least one integrated image (170) based on the overlapping images (110), wherein the step of forming at least one integrated image (170) comprises generating at least one score map (130) for each acquired overlapping image (110) relating to locally salient features of said overlapping image (110), forming an integration map (150) based on the at least one score map (130) of the at least two overlapping images (110), and integrating the at least two overlapping images (110) based on the integration map (150) to form an integrated image (170).
A method for image integration (100), said method comprising the steps of
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein the overlapping images (110) are integrated pixel-by-pixel in direct proportion to the corresponding weight values in integration map (150) to create the integrated image (170).
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein the number of overlapping images (110) is at least three.
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein the number of generated score maps (130) per image (110) is at least two.
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein the generation of a score map is based on at least one previously generated score map from the same set of overlapping images.
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein at least one of the overlapping images (110) is computer-generated imagery.
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein at least one of the at least two overlapping images (110) is a real-time image.
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein the score maps (130) are stored and used to form subsequent score maps (130) and/or the integration map (150) in a subsequent image integration.
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein the integration map (150) is stored and used to generate score maps (130) and/or form the integration map (150) in a subsequent image integration.
A method according to any of the previous claims, wherein the integration map (150) is stored and the overlapping images (110) are integrated using the stored integration map (150) formed based on a set of overlapping images (110) from a previous image integration.
A method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the score map (130) generation relating to locally salient features comprises scoring based on object recognition.
A method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the score map (130) generation relating to locally salient features comprises scoring based on local histograms and global histograms.
A computer program product for performing the method for integrating at least two overlapping images (110) according to any of the preceding claims.
An image integration device (400) comprising
An image integration system (500) comprising
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.