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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2012
Applicants:
Xiaoming Liu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Peter Henry Tu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Ya Xue, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); H04N 9/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A novel technique for unsupervised feature selection is disclosed. The disclosed methods include automatically selecting a subset of a feature of an image. Additionally, the selection of the subset of features may be incorporated with a congealing algorithm, such as a least-square-based congealing algorithm. By selecting a subset of the feature representation of an image, redundant and/or irrelevant features may be reduced or removed, and the efficiency and accuracy of least-square-based congealing may be improved.