International Business Machines Corporation

Jonathan H Connell

Nalini Kanta Ratha

Rudolf Maarten Bolle

Norman C Haas

Sharathchandra UmapathiRao Pankanti

Arun Hampapur

Noel C Codella

Ying Li

Rakesh Mohan

Gabriel Taubin

Robert Stephen Olyha, Jr

Jinyu Zuo

Andrew William Senior

Robert G Farrell

Justin David Weisz

Maryam Ashoori

Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti

Apostol Ivanov Natsev

Roberto Sicconi

Gong Leiguang

A drug delivery device includes a capsule, a logic circuit disposed within the capsule, and an actuator connected to the logic circuit and configured to expose an interior of the capsule to an exterior of the capsule upon activation by the logic circuit.

Drug delivery device having controlled delivery and confirmation

A secure transaction method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, for authorizing a transaction between a user having a personal communication device, a service provider, and a payment provider, include requesting a distribution of a location challenge code to the service provider and a distribution of a biometric data request to the personal communication device of the user, verifying the biometric data of the user based on a match of received biometric data from the user and with biometric data of the user stored in a storage unit, verifying that the location challenge code sent from the personal communication device of the user matches the distributed location challenge code, and sending a verification of authentication of the location challenge code and the match to the payment provider.

System, method, and recording medium for identity fraud prevention in secure transactions using multi-factor verification

Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products for treating skin lesions. Aspects include receiving an indication that a patient is oriented. Aspects also include acquiring data concerning an area of the patient, the area including a skin lesion. Aspects also include analyzing the data to distinguish between an affected region and an unaffected region of the area of the patient. Aspects also include excising the affected area.

Surgical skin lesion removal

A cognitive illumination system is provided. The cognitive illumination system includes a light source communicatively coupled to a servomechanism, wherein the servomechanism is configured to manipulate the light source in space, a tracking assembly configured to capture and track objects in the space and a processor communicatively coupled to the light source, the servomechanism and the tracking assembly. The processor is configured to receive information about the captured and tracked objects from the tracking assembly, determine a task being undertaken in the space therefrom, develop a lighting plan for the task which is executable by the light source and the servomechanism and control the light source and the servomechanism according to the lighting plan.

Lighting pattern optimization for a task performed in a vicinity

A system and method for generating a cancelable biometric includes providing at least one pattern and combining the at least one pattern with a biometric image by employing a transform pixel operation to generate a transformed enrollment such that information about the transform pixel operation and the at least one pattern form a security key for protecting the biometric image. The biometric image is reused to generate another security key in the event that the security key is to be canceled.

Salting system and method for cancelable iris biometric

A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for generating a cardiovascular measurement for individual identification. The method includes acquiring at least one depiction of cardiac anatomy from an individual, extracting at least one quantified representation of cardiac anatomy from the at least one depiction, defining at least one comparison technique between the at least one quantified representation of cardiac anatomy and at least one additional quantified representation of cardiac anatomy, and identifying the individual based on the at least one defined comparison technique.

Unique cardiovascular measurements for human identification

Systems and methods for detecting visual objects by employing multiple cues include statistically combining information from multiple sources into a saliency map, wherein the information may include color, texture and/or motion in an image where an object is to be detected or background determined. The statistically combined information is thresholded to make decisions with respect to foreground/background pixels.

Combining multiple cues in a visual object detection system

A method, information processing system, and computer program storage product annotate video images associated with an environmental situation based on detected actions of a human interacting with the environmental situation. A set of real-time video images are received that are captured by at least one video camera associated with an environment presenting one or more environmental situations to a human. One or more user actions made by the human that is associated with the set of real-time video images with respect to the environmental situation are monitored. A determination is made, based on the monitoring, that the human driver has one of performed and failed to perform at least one action associated with one or more images of the set of real-time video images. The one or more images of the set of real-time video images are annotated with a set of annotations.

Real-time annotation of images in a human assistive environment

A system and method for generating a cancelable biometric includes shifting at least one pixel region in a biometric image comprised of pixel regions. The at least one pixel region is combined with at least one other pixel region to form a replacement region for the at least one pixel region to form a transformed image. The biometric image is reused to generate another transformed image if the transformed image is to be canceled.

Registration-free transforms for cancelable iris biometrics

A method and information processing system train a control system using structured differential learning. A set of features extracted from a set of input data is analyzed by a plurality of analyzing components. An output response is generated by each analyzing component in the plurality of analyzing components for each feature regarding whether the each feature has an acceptable value associated therewith relative to a value of the parameter associated with the each analyzing component. A confidence score is associated with the each output response. Each output response and each confidence score is combined into a single final output response and single final confidence score. An analyzing component is identified from the plurality of analyzing components that is a strongest candidate for generating an incorrect final output response based at least on the confidence score.

Structured differential learning

A business method for using computer image processing for selectable task-based digital video compression is described. The method is intended to reduce travel of experts and let these experts direct field agents in performing tasks remotely. The tasks to be performed in the remote field can be monitoring, manipulating, and navigating. A field agent performs the manipulation and navigation operations, this agent can be a human being or a robot. The task-based compression algorithms use computer vision techniques to extract the bare minimum amount of information from the remote field scenery to allow the task to be performed. High frame rate photo-realistic reconstruction of the remote scene is not generally necessary.

Business method for selectable semantic codec pairs for very low data-rate video transmission

A system and method for using computer image processing for selectable task-based digital video compression is described. The system is intended to reduce travel of experts and let these experts direct field agents in performing tasks remotely. The tasks to be performed in the remote field can be monitoring, manipulating, and navigating. A field agent performs the manipulation and navigation operations, this agent can be a human being or a robot. The task-based compression algorithms use computer vision techniques to extract the bare minimum amount of information from the remote field scenery to allow the task to be performed. High frame rate photo-realistic reconstruction of the remote scene is not generally necessary.

System and method for selectable semantic codec pairs for very low data-rate video transmission

An image processing system segments an object from the background of a scene where the scene is illuminated by unknown ambient light sources. An image of the scene with the object and an image of the background scene are captured by an image input device. These images are color corrected, using the image of a gray patch that is visible. A further transform converts the image from a red, green, blue format into a hue, saturation and intensity representation. The two images are then novelly compared on a pixel-by-pixel basis in the hue, saturation and intensity domain.

System and method for segmentation of images of objects that are occluded by a semi-transparent material

A system and method use computer image processing for setting the parameters for an image acquisition device of a camera. The image parameters are set automatically by analyzing the image to be taken, and setting the controls according to the subject matter, in the same manner as an expert photographer would be able to. The system can run in a fully automatic mode choosing the best image parameters, or a &ldquo;guided mode&rdquo; where the user is prompted with choices where a number of alternate settings would be reasonable.

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Jonathan H Connell