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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2014
Applicant:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masaki Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;

Tomokazu Kawahara, Kanagawa, JP;

Tatsuo Kozakaya, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00268 (2013.01);
Abstract

An estimating apparatus configured to estimate a correct attribute value is provided. The estimating apparatus extracts feature quantities from an image including a person, calculates a first likelihood of the feature quantity for respective attribute classes; calculating second likelihoods for the respective attribute classes from the first likelihoods for the respective attribute classes; specifies the attribute class having the highest second likelihood; calculates an estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class and estimated attribute values of selected classes by using the feature quantity; and applies the second likelihood on the estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class as a weight, applies the second likelihoods on the estimated attribute values of the selected classes as a weight and add the same, and calculates a corrected attribute value of the specific attribute class.


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