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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1999
Pamela R. Lipson, Cambridge, MA (US);
W. Eric L. Grimson, Lexington, MA (US);
Pawan Sinha, Cambridge, MA (US);
Tomaso Poggio, Wellesley, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An image processing system for generating a class model from an image by identifying relative relationships between different properties of different image regions, includes a region partitioner a relationship processor, a template generator and an image detector. The image processing system utilizes a class model defined by one or more relative relationships between a plurality of image patches. The relative relationships describe the overall organization of images within an image class. The relative relationships are encoded in a global deformable template which can be used to classify or detect images. The class model may be pre-defined or generated by the image processing system. In one embodiment, the class model is generated from a low resolution image.