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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2007
Applicants:

Xiao Dong Gu, Beijing, CN;

Zhi BO Chen, Beijing, CN;

Qu Qing Chen, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Xiao Dong Gu, Beijing, CN;

Zhi Bo Chen, Beijing, CN;

Qu Qing Chen, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention provides a salience estimation method for object-based visual attention model. The method comprises steps of segmenting the image into a plurality of objects to be estimated, extracting feature maps for each segmented object, calculating the saliences of each segmented object in a set of circles defined around a center pixel of the object based on the extracted feature maps, and integrating the saliences of each segmented object in all circles in order to achieve an overall salience estimation for each segmented object. The present invention is much more human vision inosculated and of low computing complexity.


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