Environment and/or target segmentation
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsZsolt Mathe, Charles Claudius Marais
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Abstract
A depth image of a scene may be observed or captured by a capture device. The depth image may include a human target and an environment. One or more pixels of the depth image may be analyzed to determine whether the pixels in the depth image are associated with the environment of the depth image. The one or more pixels associated with the environment may then be discarded to isolate the human target and the depth image with the isolated human target may be processed.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory communicatively coupled to the processor when the system is operational, the memory bearing processor-executable instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the system to at least:
- receive a depth image of a scene;
- determine a centroid of a target in the scene;
- define a bounding box for the target based on the centroid of the target and a measurement of the target;
- and
- identify a pixel of the depth image that is outside of the bounding box as being associated with an environment of the scene.
A method, comprising:
- receiving a depth image of a scene;
- determining a centroid of a target in the scene;
- defining a bounding box for the target based on the centroid of the target and a measurement of the target;
- and
- identifying a pixel of the depth image that is outside of the bounding box as being associated with an environment of the scene.
A computer-readable storage device, bearing computer-readable instructions that, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform comprising:
- receiving a depth image of a scene;
- determining a centroid of a target in the scene;
- defining a bounding box for the target based on the centroid of the target and a measurement of the target;
- and
- identifying a pixel of the depth image that is outside of the bounding box as being associated with an environment of the scene.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.