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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Antonio Criminisi, Cambridge, GB;
Peter Kontschieder, Graz, AT;
Pushmeet Kohli, Cambridge, GB;
Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Image labeling is described, for example, to recognize body organs in a medical image, to label body parts in a depth image of a game player, to label objects in a video of a scene. In various embodiments an automated classifier uses geodesic features of an image, and optionally other types of features, to semantically segment an image. For example, the geodesic features relate to a distance between image elements, the distance taking into account information about image content between the image elements. In some examples the automated classifier is an entangled random decision forest in which data accumulated at earlier tree levels is used to make decisions at later tree levels. In some examples the automated classifier has auto-context by comprising two or more random decision forests. In various examples parallel processing and look up procedures are used.