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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
May. 08, 2008
Applicants:
Timothy F. Gee, Knoxville, TN (US);
James S. Goddard, Knoxville, TN (US);
Inventors:
Timothy F. Gee, Knoxville, TN (US);
James S. Goddard, Knoxville, TN (US);
Assignee:
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Image registration of low contrast image sequences is provided. In one aspect, a desired region of an image is automatically segmented and only the desired region is registered. Active contours and adaptive thresholding of intensity or edge information may be used to segment the desired regions. A transform function is defined to register the segmented region, and sub-pixel information may be determined using one or more interpolation methods.