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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2011
Yang Hua, Singapore, SG;
Shuicheng Yan, Singapore, SG;
Zhongyang Huang, Singapore, SG;
Sheng Mei Shen, Singapore, SG;
Ryouichi Kawanishi, Kyoto, JP;
Yang Hua, Singapore, SG;
Shuicheng Yan, Singapore, SG;
Zhongyang Huang, Singapore, SG;
Sheng Mei Shen, Singapore, SG;
Ryouichi Kawanishi, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image recognition apparatus with enhanced performance and robustness. In an image recognition apparatus, an image classification information accumulating unitstores therein feature information defining visual features of various objects obtained through a learning process. For classification of input images, an image feature obtaining unitextracts descriptors indicating features from each input image, image vocabularies corresponding to the descriptors are voted, and a classifying unitcalculates existence probabilities of one or more candidate objects, based on the result of the voting. According to the existence probabilities, objects contained in the image is identified. Through the calculation, the existence probabilities are adjusted by an exclusive classifier, based on exclusive relationship information defining exclusive object sets each containing different objects (object labels) predicted not to coexist in a same image.