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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1998
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and an equipment extracts image features from an image sequence in which frames indicating images are time-sequentially arranged with respect to time. The equipment includes a unit for inputting the image sequence, a unit for acquiring a motion trajectory of an image contour of a target included within a region defined by an arbitrary spatial range and time range within the input image sequence, as three-dimensional volume data drawn within a spatiotemporal space in which each of the frames is time-sequentially stacked, a unit for acquiring a plane histogram of one of tangent planes tangent to the motion trajectory and partial planes which may be included in the motion trajectory, and a unit for measuring temporal features and spatial features of the image from the acquired plane histogram. The three-dimensional volume data is obtained by forming difference images among the frames arranged in the time sequence and stacking the formed difference images. The plane histogram is obtained as votes accumulated in a plane parameter space obtained by use of the Hough transform.