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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2010
Matthew Bronder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Oliver Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Geiss, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Fitzgibbon, Cambridge, GB;
Jamie Shotton, Cambridge, GB;
Matthew Bronder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Oliver Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Geiss, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Fitzgibbon, Cambridge, GB;
Jamie Shotton, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying objects captured by a depth camera by condensing classified image data into centroids of probability that captured objects are correctly identified entities. Output exemplars are processed to detect spatially localized clusters of non-zero probability pixels. For each cluster, a centroid is generated, generally resulting in multiple centroids for each differentiated object. Each centroid may be assigned a confidence value, indicating the likelihood that it corresponds to a true object, based on the size and shape of the cluster, as well as the probabilities of its constituent pixels.