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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2009
Yan Tong, Schenectady, NY (US);
Xiaoming Liu, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jilin Tu, Schenectady, NY (US);
Peter Henry Tu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Frederick Wilson Wheeler, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Yan Tong, Schenectady, NY (US);
Xiaoming Liu, Schenectady, NY (US);
Jilin Tu, Schenectady, NY (US);
Peter Henry Tu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Frederick Wilson Wheeler, Niskayuna, NY (US);
NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A system and method for estimating a set of landmarks for a large image ensemble employs only a small number of manually labeled images from the ensemble and avoids labor-intensive and error-prone object detection, tracking and alignment learning task limitations associated with manual image labeling techniques. A semi-supervised least squares congealing approach is employed to minimize an objective function defined on both labeled and unlabeled images. A shape model is learned on-line to constrain the landmark configuration. A partitioning strategy allows coarse-to-fine landmark estimation.