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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
Maolin Chen, Beijing, CN;
Maolin Chen, Beijing, CN;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
Provided is a target analysis apparatus, method and computer-readable medium based on a depth image and an intensity image of a target is provided. The target analysis apparatus may include a body detection unit to detect a body of the target from the intensity image of the target, a foreground segmentation unit to calculate an intensity threshold value in accordance with intensity values from the detected body, to transform the intensity image into a binary image using the intensity threshold value, and to mask the depth image of the target using the binary image as a mask to thereby obtain a masked depth image, and an active portion detection unit to detect an active portion of the body of the target from the masked depth image.