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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2021
Nec Corporation of America, Herzlia, IL;
NEC Corporation Of America, Herzlia, IL;
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods and system for determining whether a user is wearing a mask, comprising receiving one or more infrared images depicting the user's face in one or more infrared spectral ranges and one or more visible light images depicting the user's face in visible light spectral range, registering the infrared image(s) to the visible light image(s), computing luminance values of a plurality of pixels relating to the user's face in the visible light image(s), computing infrared reflectiveness values of corresponding pixels in the registered infrared light image(s), computing, for each of the pixels, a difference between the luminance value and the infrared reflectiveness value and determining the user is genuine and not wearing a mask in case an aggregated difference aggregating the difference values of the pixels relating to the user's face exceeds a certain value.