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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2000
Susan S. Young, Buffalo, NY (US);
Hsien-Che Lee, Penfield, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for automatically locating instances of a specified image structure in digital images, comprising the steps of: providing a digital image; detecting simple features associated with the specified image structure in the digital image; for each detected feature, searching, in its spatial neighborhood, for a second or a plural of other features associated with the specified image structure; for each pair of plural of features detected, using an eigenvector classifier to distinguish the wanted features and the unwanted features by matching the eigenvector representation that is constructed from a set of training profiles; and labeling those image regions that are found to be consistent with the specified image structure in the classifying step.