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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2006
Applicants:
Huzefa Neemuchwala, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Russakoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Huzefa Neemuchwala, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Russakoff, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and an apparatus process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including an object; clusters pixels of the image to obtain clusters; generates a graph with pixels of the image and cluster membership information of pixels in the clusters; and segments the graph using a max-flow segmentation to obtain pixels of the image associated with the object.