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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2005
Applicants:
Dongge LI, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Bhavan R. Gandhi, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Zhu LI, Palatine, IL (US);
Inventors:
Dongge Li, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Bhavan R. Gandhi, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Zhu Li, Palatine, IL (US);
Assignee:
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An object detection algorithm that generates a two-layer Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) during a training session, and subsequent to the training session, uses the two-layer GMM to perform face detection. No labeling of local features is needed. The only input that is provided by a user is the setting of a few global parameters for the image being captured during the training session, such as, for example, the person's facial pose.