Deutschetelekom Ag

Thomas Scheerbarth

Fred Runge

Joachim Stegmann

Christoph Lange

Gregor Glass

Frank Oberle

Jianshen Zhou

Stefan Seide

Jürgen Copenhaguen-Bormuth

Robert Hoffmann

Roman Dr Englert

Karsten Schröder

Ingmar Kliche

Dipl-Ing Fred Runge

A method for emphasizing selected objects in digital data of at least one of pictures and video that is stored in digital messages, the messages including sender addresses and being stored in a memory system of a digital messaging system for a plurality of users, includes the step of identifying picture regions including at least one of faces and persons in the digital data of the messages on the digital messaging system having the same sender address. Sender-relevant picture regions in the identified picture regions that represent a sender of the message are determined based on at least one of: a) a comparison with a reference picture of the sender stored on the memory system; b) a comparison of speech data in the digital data with reference speech data using at least one of speaker recognition methods, speaker verification methods and speaker identification methods, taking into account picture data and speech data in the message; and c) a frequency of occurrence of the identified picture regions in the messages that have the same sender address. The digital data of the messages is then modified so as to emphasize the sender-relevant picture region.

Method and apparatus for identifying speakers and emphasizing selected objects in picture and video messages

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Thomas Scheerbarth