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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2015
Hrl Laboratories Llc, Malibu, CA (US);
Terrell N. Mundhenk, Calabasas, CA (US);
Heiko Hoffmann, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Arturo Flores, La Jolla, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of classification and segmentation of an image using modules on a computer system includes receiving a plurality of models having features suitable for classifying each pixel of the image into a respective one of a plurality of categories, using a classifier to provide a score for each pixel in the image for each category and using a segmenter to segment the image into image segments, wherein each image segment is a contiguous set of pixels having at least one common feature. For each image segment a set of average probabilities for each category is determined, and for each image segment, a most likely category to which the image segment belongs is determined by the maximum average probability resulting in a labeled segment image, which is used to identify any empty areas as incorrect holes. Then any empty areas that are identified as incorrect holes are filled.