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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Stuart Alan Schweid, Pittsford, NY (US);
Orhan Bulan, Henrietta, NY (US);
Yao Rong Wang, Webster, NY (US);
Wencheng Wu, Webster, NY (US);
Robert Paul Loce, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides vehicle detection methods and systems including irrelevant search window elimination and/or window score degradation. According to one exemplary embodiment, provided is a method of detecting one or more parked vehicles in a video frame, wherein candidate search windows are limited to one or more predefined window shapes. According to another exemplary embodiment, the method includes degrading a classification score of a candidate search window based on aspect ratio, window overlap area and/or a global maximal classification.