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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Clay Douglas Spence, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Paul Sajda, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/518 ; G06G 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/518 ; G06G 7/00 ;
Abstract
A signal processing apparatus and concomitant method for learning and integrating features from multiple resolutions for detecting and/or classifying objects. The signal processing apparatus comprises a hierarchical pyramid of neural networks (HPNN) having a “fine-to-coarse” structure or a combination of the “fine-to-coarse” and the “coarse-to-fine” structures.