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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Thorsten Gernoth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian R. Fasel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Touraj Tajbakhsh, San Jose, CA (US);
Jia-Chi Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Occlusion of facial features may be detected and assessed in an image captured by a camera on a device. Landmark heat maps may be used to estimate the location of landmarks such as the eyes, mouth, and nose of a user's face in the captured image. An occlusion heat map may also be generated for the captured image. The occlusion heat map may include values representing the amount of occlusion in regions of the face. The estimated locations of the eyes, mouth, and nose may be used in combination with the occlusion heat map to assess occlusion scores for the landmarks. The occlusion scores for the landmarks may be used control one or more operations of the device.