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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Noel C. Codella, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Gang Hua, Livingston, NJ (US);
John R. Smith, New York, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for static image segmentation are provided herein. A method includes segmenting an image containing a target object into multiple regions; analyzing video content containing the target object to determine a similarity metric across the multiple segmented regions based on information associated with the multiple segmented regions; and applying the similarity metric to the image to identify two or more of the multiple segmented regions as being portions of the target object.