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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2009
Swarup Medasani, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Yuri Owechko, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Michael Daily, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Ronald Azuma, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Swarup Medasani, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Yuri Owechko, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Michael Daily, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Ronald Azuma, Santa Monica, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-stage method of visual object detection is disclosed. The method was originally designed to detect humans in specific poses, but is applicable to generic detection of any object. A first stage comprises acts of searching for members of a predetermined general-class of objects (such as humans) in an image using a cognitive swarm, detecting members of the general-class of objects in the image, and selecting regions of the image containing detected members of the general-class of objects. A second stage comprises acts of searching for members of a predetermined specific-class of objects (such as humans in a certain pose) within the selected regions of the image using a cognitive swarm, detecting members of the specific-class of objects within the selected regions of the image, and outputting the locations of detected objects to an operator display and optionally to an automatic response system.