Sarnoff Corporation

Deepam Mishra

Lambert Ernest Wixson

Keith James Hanna

Peter Jeffrey Burt

Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath

Michael Wade Hansen

Peter James Coyle

Douglas Fremont Dixon

Shmuel Peleg

Robert Mandelbaum

Robert Mandlebaum

Joshua R Herman

A recognition system which obtains and analyzes images of at least one object in a scene comprising a wide field of view (WFOV) imager which is used to capture an image of the scene and to locate the object and a narrow field of view (NFOV) imager which is responsive to the location information provided by the WFOV imager and which is used to capture an image of the object, the image of the object having a higher resolution than the image captured by the WFOV imager is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system that obtains and analyzes images of the irises of eyes of a human or animal in an image with little or no active involvement by the human or animal is disclosed. A method for obtaining and analyzing images of at least one object in a scene comprising capturing a wide field of view image of the object to locate the object in the scene; and then using a narrow field of view imager responsive to the location information provided in the capturing step to obtain higher resolution image of the object is also disclosed.

Fully automated iris recognition system utilizing wide and narrow fields of view

A method for fixating a camera, mounted on a motorized mount, on a target point. The method includes receiving a plurality of images representative of a scene; selecting, within the plurality of images, a first display reference image containing the target point at a first coordinate location; estimating, in a current image within the plurality of images, a transformation that maps the current image to the first display reference image; estimating a second coordinate location of the target point in the current image using the transformation; computing an image slip between the target point in the current image and the target point in the first display reference image; converting the image slip into an angular correction for fixating the camera; modifying the angular correction by using closed-loop control with the motorized mount; and warping the current image using the transformation to align the current image with the first display reference image. This warping step provides a stable view of the scene even in the presence of camera movements that cannot be eliminated using mechanical stabilization, and in the presence of motor control lags and oscillations due to measurement and actuator latencies.

Method and apparatus for fixating a camera on a target point using image alignment

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Deepam Mishra