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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2007
Yizhou Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dashan Gao, La Jolla, CA (US);
Haitham Hindi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Minh Binh DO, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yizhou Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dashan Gao, La Jolla, CA (US);
Haitham Hindi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Minh Binh Do, Mountain View, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for decomposing a digital image is provided. A digital image is represented as a word-graph, which includes words and visualized features, and zone hypotheses that group one or more of the words. Causal dependencies of the zone hypotheses are expressed through a learned generative zone model to which costs and constraints are assigned. An optimal set of the zone hypotheses are inferred, which are non-overlapping, through a heuristic search of the costs and constraints.