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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
May. 31, 2017
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Jonathan Sullivan, Natick, MA (US);
Brian Schiller, St. Louis, MO (US);
Alejandro Terrazas, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Wei Xie, Woodridge, IL (US);
Michael Allen Bivins, San Francisco, CA (US);
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to improve detection and false alarm rate over image segmentation are disclosed. An example method includes determining a first score based on a first pixel distance between a first feature of a first object in a reference image and a second feature in a second image of a search area, determining a second score corresponding to a second pixel distance between the second feature and a mathematical representation of a plurality of shapes representing a similarity between the second feature in the second image of the search area and the plurality of shapes observed simultaneously. The method further includes determining a normalized score by normalizing the first score based on the second score and identifying a second object in the second image of the search area as the first object in the reference image when the normalized score satisfies a threshold score.