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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Kakinuma, Musashino, JP;
Yoshihide Tonomura, Musashino, JP;
Hiromu Miyashita, Musashino, JP;
Hidenobu Nagata, Musashino, JP;
Kota Hidaka, Musashino, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Accurate and rapid identification can be performed even when feature vectors of input pixels and background pixels are close. An image processing device includes: a feature extractor which extracts features of pixels from an input image and an input image of a different time; a quantization unit which reduces the number of gradations of features extracted by the feature extractor; a learning unitwhich learns combinations of the features of pixels through a machine learning algorithm that performs nonlinear identification and constructs a network according to machine learning; an LUT generatorwhich generates an LUT that replaces arithmetic operations of the network constructed by the learning unit; a foreground region estimatorwhich rapidly estimates similarity of each pixel of the input image to a foreground by referring to the LUT generated by the LUT generator; and a boundary correctorwhich classifies regions similar to the foreground estimated by the foreground region estimatorinto the foreground, a background, and an unclassified region including boundary pixels of the foreground and the background and performs boundary correction only on the unclassified region.