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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2019
Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;
Andreas Wallin, Billdal, SE;
Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Volvo Car Corporation, Gothenburg, SE;
Abstract
There is provided a method for image segmentation and annotation. The method comprises: providing an image; reducing the image size and smoothing the image to perform low-pass filtering on the image; restoring the image size; performing pixel level clustering of the image; performing spatial clustering of the image; selecting one or more clusters corresponding to a region of interest, ROI, based on a predetermined image mask, wherein the predetermined image mask has a known location in relation to the ROI; defining the selected one or more clusters as a proposed ROI; and determining if the proposed ROI sufficiently corresponds to an actual ROI.