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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2004
Applicants:
Jeffrey Ho, Gainesville, FL (US);
Jongwoo Lim, La Jolla, CA (US);
Ming-hsuan Yang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey Ho, Gainesville, FL (US);
Jongwoo Lim, La Jolla, CA (US);
Ming-Hsuan Yang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and a method are disclosed for clustering images of objects seen from different viewpoints. That is, given an unlabelled set of images of n objects, an unsupervised algorithm groups the images into N disjoint subsets such that each subset only contains images of a single object. The clustering method makes use of a broad geometric framework that exploits the interplay between the geometry of appearance manifolds and the symmetry of the 2D affine group.