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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
May. 26, 2009
David Allen Tolliver, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Andrew Neil Stein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Neil Alldrin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
David Allen Tolliver, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Kristin Jean Dana, Spring Lake, NJ (US);
Andrew Neil Stein, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Neil Alldrin, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Tandent Vision Science, Inc., Dan 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, forming a set of selectively varied representations of the image file and performing an image segregation operation on at least one preselected representation of the image of the image file, to generate intrinsic images corresponding to the image. According to a feature of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the selectively varied representations comprise multi-resolution representations such as a scale-spaced pyramid of representations. In a further feature of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the intrinsic images comprise a material image and an illumination image.