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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2019
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Takeda, San Jose, CA (US);
Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari, San Jose, CA (US);
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method for object segmentation in color image frames, is provided. The image-processing apparatus generates, based on a first neural network model, a first foreground mask and a second foreground mask for an object-of-interest in a first color image frame and an upcoming color image frame, respectively, of the sequence of color image frames. The image-processing apparatus determines a third foreground mask based on interpolation of the first foreground mask and the second foreground mask and updates, by use of the second neural network model, the third foreground mask to a fourth foreground mask. The image processing apparatus segments the object-of-interest from at least the first color image frame, the upcoming color image frame, and the intermediate color image frame by use of the first foreground mask, the second foreground mask, and the fourth foreground mask, respectively.