Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Solae Lee

Hana Lee

Byung In Yoo

Youngjun Kwak

Jiho Choi

Yong-Il Lee

Sungheon Park

Seungju Han

Minsu Ko

Jiwon Baek

Jaejoon Han

Juwoan Yoo

Hyeongwook Yang

Byungin Yoo

Seungin Park

Changbeom Park

Seong-Jin Park

Sungyoul Park

Hyeongseok Son

An apparatus and a method of controlling a camera is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive an image from an image sensor and a processor configured to detect a target object from the image, perform a first zoom adjustment operation of the camera including the image sensor based on whether the target object is changed and perform a second zoom adjustment of the camera based on a center point of the target object and a center point of the camera.

Apparatus and method of controlling camera with auto-zooming

A processor-implemented method with liveness detection includes: receiving a plurality of phase images of different phases; generating a plurality of preprocessed phase images by performing preprocessing, including edge enhancement processing, on the plurality of phase images of different phases; generating a plurality of differential images based on the preprocessed phase images; generating a plurality of low-resolution differential images having lower resolutions than the differential images, based on the differential images; generating a minimum map image based on the low-resolution differential images; and performing a liveness detection on an object in the phase images based on the minimum map image.

Method and apparatus with liveness detection

A liveness detection method and apparatus, and a facial verification method and apparatus are disclosed. The liveness detection method includes detecting a face region in an input image, measuring characteristic information of the face region, adjusting the measured characteristic information in response to the characteristic information not satisfying a condition, and performing a liveness detection on the face region with the adjusted characteristic information upon the measured characteristic information not satisfying the condition.

Disclosed is an object recognition method and object recognition apparatus. The object recognition method may include detecting an object region comprising an object in an input image, determining scores corresponding to regions of the object region, determining weights based on the scores and detection information of the object region, determining a final score based on the scores and the determined weights, and determining a result of recognizing the object based on the final score.

Object recognition method and object recognition apparatus

A device and method with object recognition is included. In one general aspect, an electronic device includes a camera sensor configured to capture a first image of a scene, the camera sensor is configured to perform at least one type of physical camera motion relative to the electronic device, the at least one type of physical camera motion includes rolling, panning, tilting, or zooming the camera sensor relative to the electronic device, and a processor configured to control the camera sensor to perform a physical motion of the physical camera motion type based on detecting an object in the first image, acquire a second image captured using the camera sensor as adjusted based on the performed physical motion, and recognize the object in the second image.

Device and method with object recognition

A method and apparatus for detecting a liveness based on a phase difference are provided. The method includes generating a first phase image based on first visual information of a first phase, generating a second phase image based on second visual information of a second phase, generating a minimum map based on a disparity between the first phase image and the second phase image, and detecting a liveness based on the minimum map.

Method and apparatus for detecting liveness based on phase difference

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for testing a liveness, where the liveness test method includes receiving a color image and a photodiode (PD) image of an object from an image sensor comprising a pixel formed of a plurality of PDs, preprocessing the color image and the PD image, and determining a liveness of the object by inputting a result of preprocessing the color image and a result of preprocessing the PD image into a neural network.

Method and apparatus for testing liveness

A processor-implemented method with blur estimation includes: acquiring size information of an input image; resizing the input image to generate a target image of a preset size; estimating a blur of the target image; and estimating a blur of the input image based on the size information of the input image.

Method and apparatus with blur estimation

A method with image recognition includes: extracting, using a feature extraction layer, feature data from an input image received by an image sensor; and outputting a recognition result of an object appearing in the input image, by applying a fixed mask and a variable mask to the extracted feature data, wherein the variable mask is adjusted in response to the extracted feature data.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Solae Lee