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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2010
Neil Alldrin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kshitiz Garg, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Andrew Neil Stein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Benton, ME (US);
Casey Arthur Smith, Grand Junction, CO (US);
Youngrock Yoon, Knoxville, TN (US);
Besma Roui Abidi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neil Alldrin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kshitiz Garg, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Andrew Neil Stein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Bruce Allen Maxwell, Benton, ME (US);
Casey Arthur Smith, Grand Junction, CO (US);
Youngrock Yoon, Knoxville, TN (US);
Besma Roui Abidi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, assembling a feature vector for the image file, the feature vector containing information regarding a likelihood that a selected pair of regions of the image file are of a same intrinsic characteristic, for example, a same texture, providing a classifier derived from a computer learning technique, computing a classification score for the selected pair of regions of the image file, as a function of the feature vector and the classifier and classifying the regions as being of the same intrinsic characteristic, as a function of the classification score.