Tandent Vision Science, Inc.

Besma Roui Abidi

Casey Arthur Smith

Bruce Allen Maxwell

Andrew Neil Stein

Kshitiz Garg

Youngrock R Yoon

Neil Alldrin

Kristin Jean Dana

In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, for example, a same texture, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.

Image segregation system with method for handling textures

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Besma Roui Abidi