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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Ying Zhu, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Binglong Xie, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Visvanathan Ramesh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Martin Pellkofer, Pentling, DE;
Thorsten Köhler, Deuerling, DE;
Ying Zhu, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Binglong Xie, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Visvanathan Ramesh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Martin Pellkofer, Pentling, DE;
Thorsten Köhler, Deuerling, DE;
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method of detecting a feature of a vehicle in an image of a vehicle includes providing a digitized image of a vehicle, providing a first filter mask over a first subdomain of the image, where the filter mask is placed to detect a feature in the image, calculating a function of a gradient of the image inside the first masked subdomain, and detecting the presence or absence of a vehicle feature within the first masked subdomain based on the value of the gradient function.