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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kotaro Yano, Tokyo, JP;
Ichiro Umeda, Tokyo, JP;
Muling Guo, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Macquarie Park, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit to acquire an input image including an object, an extraction unit to extract a region that has been changed from a background image in the input image, as a changing region, a generating unit to generate a change region image in which a pixel value of each pixel represents whether or not a corresponding pixel in the input image belongs to the changing region, an extraction unit to extract a plurality of feature images from the input image as an output of a neural network by inputting a combination of the input image and the change region image to the neural network, and a detection unit to detect a position of the object from the plurality of feature images.