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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2004
Applicants:
Theodore A. Camus, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Richard Wildes, Toronto, CA;
Inventors:
Theodore A. Camus, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Richard Wildes, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of quickly and robustly localizing a pair of concentric circular region boundaries in a digital image, such as the pupil and iris boundaries in an image of a human eye is disclosed. Specularities in the image are optionally filled. An object containing concentric regions, e.g., a pupil and iris, is found within the image.