Eastman-kodak Company

Kodak Alaris Inc.

Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC

Apple Inc.

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Columbia University

Alexander C Loui

Madirakshi Das

Joseph Anthony Manico

Andrew Charles Gallagher

Cathleen D Cerosaletti

Wei Jiang

Mrityunjay Kumar

Mark D Wood

David Kloosterman

Bruce Harold Pillman

Kenneth Alan Parulski

John K McBride

Raymond William Ptucha

Zhaohui Sun

Minwoo Park

David K Rhoda

Samuel M Fryer

Bryan D Kraus

Dale Frederick McIntyre

Bruce A Link

Robert W Johnson

Dhiraj Joshi

Neal Eckhaus

Jose Zvietcovich Zegarra

Jason R Oliver

Erik Garcell

Chi Zhang

Eric S Pavie

Jiebo Luo

Shih-Fu Chang

Nathan D Cahill

Young No

Charles Austin Parker

Kevin Michael Gobeyn

Stacie Lynn Hibino

Amit Singhal

Wei Hao

Abdolreza Abdolhosseini Moghadam

Jonathan K Riek

Courtenay Cotton

Michal Kucer

Eric Pavie

Amanda J Stent

David Messinger

John Randall Fredlund

Joel S Lawther

Peter O Stubler

Laura R Whitby

Michael J Telek

David R Cok

Edward Covannon

Andrew C Blose

Xu Chen

Rajan L Joshi

Frank Marino

Stephen L Shaffer

Andreas E Savakis

Thomas N Berarducci

William M Jackson

Martin A Parker

Daniel Ellis

James S Warnick

James Whritenor

Brian E Mittelstaedt

Sanjiv Kumar

Charles N Judice

Lei Fan

Jiang Wei

Jens C Farmer

Annette L Thompson

Joseph M Geigel

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Carl Salvaggio

Matthieu Jeanson

Kenneth Ruck

A system and method for performing real-time quality inspection of objects is disclosed. The system and method include a transport to move objects being inspected, allowing the inspection to be performed in-line. At least one optical acquisition unit is provided that captured optical images of the objects being inspected. The captured optical images are matched to CAD models of objects, and the matched CAD model is extracted. A laser with an illumination light beam has a wavelength in the violet or ultraviolet range then conducts scans of the objects, which are formed into three-dimensional point clouds. The point clouds are compared to the extracted CAD models for each object, where CTF are compared to user input or CAD model information and the object is determined to be acceptable or defective based on the extent of deviation between the point cloud and the CAD model.

Automated in-line object inspection

Data points, calendar entries, trends, and behavioral patterns may be used to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation. The collections are selected from files on the user's device, cloud-based photo library, or other libraries shared among other individuals and grouped into thematic products. Based on analysis of the user's collections and on-line behaviors, the system may estimate types and volumes of potential media-centric products, and the resources needed for producing and distributing such media-centric products for a projected period of time. A user interface may take the form of a 'virtual curator', which is a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas with each user and can interact with the user via text/audio messaging.

System and method for predictive curation, production infrastructure, and personal content assistant

A method and system for automated creation of collages from a video sequence is provided. The system and method dynamically extracts key frames from a video sequence, which are used to create the collages shown on a display. By changing the position of cursors, a new set of key frames is extracted and the content of the collage will change correspondingly reflecting the changes in the key frames selection. The method also includes user interface elements to allow a user to change the layout design (e.g., rotate, overlap, white space, image scaling) of the video frames on the collage. In addition, the method includes different ways for browsing the video sequence by using automatically detected semantic concepts in various frames as indexing points. Further, the method includes defining swiping attributes based on motion characteristics (e.g., zoom/pan, motion of object), audio activity, or facial expression for browsing the video sequence.

Method for dynamic creation of collages from mobile video

Embodiments of the present disclosure a method for determining product relevancy including extracting metadata from an image file of a digital image collection, the metadata being indicative of at least one feature of the image file. The method includes creating an input profile corresponding to the metadata extracted from the image files of the digital image collection. The method includes comparing the input profile to a product profile, the product profile having one or more rules corresponding to a consumer product, wherein the rules are indicative of the requirements of the product. The method includes determining a match score, the match score indicative of a relevancy of the product profile to the input profile such that a high relevancy correlates to a consumer product that is suited to the input profile and a low relevancy correlates to the consumer product that is not suited to the input profile.

Method for image product recommendation

Described herein is a system and method for predictive curation, and production infrastructure. In certain embodiments, the system includes a user interface, which may take the form of a 'virtual curator,' a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas, as appropriate, with each user. Embodiments of the system leverage data points, calendar entries, trends, behavioral patterns to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation.

A method for determining an impact score for a digital image includes providing the digital image wherein the digital image includes faces; using a processor to determine an image feature for the faces; using the processor to compute an object impact score for the faces, wherein the object impact score is based at least upon one of the determined image features; weighting the object impact score for the faces based on one of the determined image features for a face; using the processor to compute an impact score for the digital image by combining the weighted object impact scores for the faces in the image; and storing the computed impact score in a processor accessible memory.

Imaging workflow using facial and non-facial features

A method for creating navigable views includes receiving digital images, computing a set of feature points for each of the digital images, selecting one of the digital images as a reference image, identifying a salient region of interest in the reference image, identifying other digital images containing a region of interest similar to the salient region of interest in the reference image using the set of feature points computed for each of other digital images, designating a reference location for the salient region of interest in the reference image, aligning the other digital images to the image that contains the designated reference location, ordering the image that contains the designated reference location and the other digital images, and generating a navigable view.

System and method for creating navigable views

A system and method that performs iterative foreground detection and multi-object segmentation in an image is disclosed herein. A new background prior is introduced to improve the foreground segmentation results. Three complimentary methods detect and segment foregrounds containing multiple objects. The first method performs an iterative segmentation of the image to pull out the salient objects in the image. In a second method, a higher dimensional embedding of the image graph is used to estimate the saliency score and extract multiple salient objects. A third method uses a metric to automatically pick the number of eigenvectors to consider in an alternative method to iteratively compute the image saliency map. Experimental results show that these methods succeed in accurately extracting multiple foreground objects from an image.

Iterative method for salient foreground detection and multi-object segmentation

A method for ranking events in media collections includes designating a media collection, using a processor to cluster the media collection items into a hierarchical event structure, using the processor to identify and count visually similar sub-events within each event in the hierarchical event structure, using the processor to determine a ranking of events based on the count of sub-events within each event, and associating the determined ranking with each event in the media collection.

Method for ranking and selecting events in media collections

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a recurrent framework based on Recurrent Highway Networks (RHNs) for sequence modeling using batch normalization. In certain embodiments, constraints within the RHNs are relaxed to reduce or avoid gradient vanishing or exploding by normalizing the current transition units in highway layers.

System and method for batch-normalized recurrent highway networks

Data points, calendar entries, trends, behavioral patterns may be used to predict and pre-emptively build digital and printable products with selected collections of images without the user's active participation. The collections are selected from files on the user's device, cloud-based photo library, or other libraries shared among other individuals and grouped into thematic products. Based on analysis of the user's collections and on-line behaviors, the system may estimate types and volumes of potential media-centric products, and the resources needed for producing and distributing such media-centric products for a projected period of time. A user interface may take the form of a 'virtual curator', which is a graphical or animated persona for augmenting and managing interactions between the user and the system managing the user's stored media assets. The virtual curator can assume one of many personas, as appropriate, with each user. For example, the virtual curator can be presented as an avatar-animated character in an icon, or icon that floats around the screen. The virtual curator can also interact with the user via text messaging, or audio messaging.

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Alexander C Loui