Thales

Gilles Henaff

Alain Simon

Etienne Payot

Jerome Fournier

Jérôme Fournier

A method for formulating a knowledge database of object images acquired by an imaging device furnished with a sensor, including defining N classes each including a set of objects represented by a label and a set of characteristics, learning decision rules associated with these classes, definition of K contextual information cues regarding image background f, with k varying from 1 to K and K&#x3e;1, association of one of these information cues regarding image background fwith each object, allotting of the objects into M new classes, with N&#x3c;M&#x2266;K&#xd7;N, each including a set of objects represented by a new label including an old label and one of said information cues regarding image background fand the set of characteristics of these objects, definition for each background fof a subset Qof these M classes associated with this image background, learning of decision rules for each of these subsets Q.

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Paris, France

Gilles Henaff