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20100057455 | Method and System for 3D Lip-Synch Generation with Data-Faithful Machine Learning - A method for generating three-dimensional speech animation is provided using data-driven and machine learning approaches. It utilizes the most relevant part of the captured utterances for the synthesis of input phoneme sequences. If highly relevant data are missing or lacking, then it utilizes less relevant (but more abundant) data and relies more heavily on machine learning for the lip-synch generation. | 03-04-2010 |
20100141795 | METHOD FOR GEOTAGGING OF PICTURES AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Provided are a method and an apparatus for tagging a photograph with information. The method of tagging a photograph with information, which calculates a shooting position of an input image from reference images having shooting position information to tag the shooting position information, includes: selecting a plurality of reference images; calculating a relative shooting position of the input image to the shooting positions of the reference images; calculating the shooting position of the input image on the basis of the calculation result of the calculating; and storing the shooting position and shooting direction information on the input image in an exchangeable image file format (EXIF) tag of the input image. | 06-10-2010 |
20100191155 | Apparatus for Calculating Calories Balance by Classifying User's Activity - An apparatus for calculating calorie balance based on an activity classification, disclosed herein, includes a calculation part calculating characteristic values of acceleration and a user's calorie expenditure from the user's activities, and calculating food data and the user's calorie intake from foods taken by the user; and a recognition part recognizing the user's activities based on the characteristic values of acceleration, and recognizing the foods based on the food data. The characteristic values of acceleration are extracted from acceleration data of acceleration sensors, which determine the user's activities, and include information on the relationship between the acceleration data and the user's activities. The calculation part calculates calorie balance, using the user's calorie expenditure and the user's calorie intake. | 07-29-2010 |
20100217595 | Method For Emotion Recognition Based On Minimum Classification Error - Disclosed herein is a method for emotion recognition based on a minimum classification error. In the method, a speaker's neutral emotion is extracted using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM), other emotions except the neutral emotion are classified using the Gaussian Mixture Model to which a discriminative weight for minimizing the loss function of a classification error for the feature vector for emotion recognition is applied. In the emotion recognition, the emotion recognition is performed by applying a discriminative weight evaluated using the Gaussian Mixture Model based on minimum classification error to feature vectors of the emotion classified with difficult, thereby enhancing the performance of emotion recognition. | 08-26-2010 |
20130044962 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONSTRUCTING IMAGE HAVING HIGH RESOLUTION - A method and system for reconstructing an image displayed on an electronic device connected to a network, to be a high resolution image. The method of reconstructing a selected area of the image displayed on the electronic device connected to a network, to be a high resolution image, includes: receiving a request to expand the selected area; collecting images including the selected area from the Internet; correcting the selected area to have a high resolution while expanding the selected area based on the collected images; and displaying the image expanded to have a high resolution on the electronic device. | 02-21-2013 |
20130120450 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY TOUR PLATFORM SERVICE INSIDE BUILDING BY USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of providing an augmented reality tour platform service for the inside of a building by using a wireless communication device. The method includes: acquiring an image of the building from the wireless communication device; collecting information associated with the acquired image; extracting a candidate building group from a previously established database on the basis of the acquired image and the collected information; specifying a building matching the acquired image from among the extracted candidate building group; and transmitting information regarding the inside of the specified building to the wireless communication device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130202162 | METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL FACIAL SHAPE - A method of reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) facial shape with super resolution even from a short moving picture having a front facial image by acquiring a super-resolution facial image by applying, as a weighting factor, a per-unit-patch similarity between a target frame and frames remaining after excluding the target frame from among a plurality of continuous frames including the front facial image, and reconstructing the 3D facial shape based on the acquired super-resolution facial image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130314320 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL CURSOR BY USING PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of controlling a three-dimensional virtual cursor (3D) by using a portable electronic device, the method including: sensing at least one of a movement and a touch input of a portable electronic device through a sensor mounted in the portable electronic device; and converting the sensed at least one of the movement and the touch input of the portable electronic device into a cursor control signal for controlling an operation of a cursor in a 3D space to output the cursor control signal. According to the method, a 3D virtual cursor may be conveniently controlled without a location or time limit by using a portable electronic device which a user carries. | 11-28-2013 |
20130321620 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING OBJECT MATERIAL - Provided is an apparatus for recognizing object material. The apparatus includes: an imaging camera unit for capturing spatial image including various objects in a space; an exploring radar unit sending an incident wave to the objects and receiving spatial radar information including a surface reflected wave from a surface of each of the objects and an internal reflected wave from the inside of each of the objects; an information storage unit for storing reference physical property information corresponding to a material of each object; and a material recognition processor recognizing material information of each object by using the reference physical property information stored in the information storage unit, the spatial image provided by the imaging camera unit, and the spatial radar information provided by the exploring radar unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20140132500 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING LOCATION OF MOVING OBJECT IN REAL TIME - Provided is an apparatus for recognizing a location of a moving object in real time. The apparatus includes a lighting portion including a lighting unit for emitting a plurality of optical signals spatially separated in different patterns; an electronic tattoo portion that is attached on the moving object, wherein the electronic tattoo portion includes at least one electronic tattoo unit including a solar cell for detecting each of the plurality of optical signals emitted from the lighting portion, a wireless antenna for wirelessly transmitting the plurality of optical signals detected by the solar cell, and a controller for controlling the transmission of the plurality of optical signals; and a location recognition portion for recognizing the location of the moving object from the plurality of optical signals wirelessly transmitted from the electronic tattoo portion. | 05-15-2014 |
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20120249743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGE WITH HIGHLIGHTED DEPTH-OF-FIELD - A method that highlights a depth-of-field (DOF) region of an image and performs additional image processing by using the DOF region. The method includes: obtaining a first pattern image and a second pattern image that are captured by emitting light according to different patterns from an illumination device; detecting a DOF region by using the first pattern image and the second pattern image; determining weights to highlight the DOF region; and generating the highlighted DOF image by applying the weights to a combined image of the first pattern image and the second pattern image. | 10-04-2012 |
20130235033 | THREE DIMENSIONAL MONTAGE GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON TWO DIMENSIONAL SINGLE IMAGE - The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensional montage generation system and method based on a two-dimensional single image. An embodiment of the present disclosure may generate a three-dimensional montage in an easy, fast and accurate way by using a two-dimensional front face image data, and estimate face portions, which cannot be restored by using a single photograph, in a statistic way by using a previously prepared face database. Accordingly, an embodiment of the present disclosure may generate a three-dimensional personal model from a single two-dimensional front face photograph, and depth information such as nose height, lip protrusion and eye contour may be effectively estimated by means of statistical distribution and correlation of data. | 09-12-2013 |
20130261891 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROJECTING NAVIGATION INFORMATION ONTO FRONT OF VEHICLE - Provided are a method and apparatus for projecting driving information in front of a vehicle with respect to a destination. The method for projecting driving information in front of the vehicle with respect to the destination may include obtaining driving information and controlling a driving information projecting apparatus on the basis of the obtained driving information. The driving information projecting apparatus may include a driving information display unit displaying the obtained driving information and a lighting unit used as a light source | 10-03-2013 |
20130297205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDOOR NAVIGATION - The system for indoor navigation includes a global coordinate generator for dividing an indoor space, extracting a feature point where images photographed by cameras installed at predetermined locations overlap, and generating a global coordinate of the feature point, a database for storing information about the image and global coordinate of the feature point generated by the global coordinate generator, and a mobile device for extracting a feature point from an image of a surrounding environment photographed by a camera thereof, comparing the extracted feature point with the feature point stored in the database, and estimating location and direction thereof by using a global coordinate of a coincident feature point. | 11-07-2013 |
20140129989 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COGNITIVE AVATAR - One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus and method for generating a cognitive avatar, and according to one or more of the above embodiments of the present invention, the process of allowing the user to select images, which are recognized as similar, from face images of various impressions which are classified as a plurality of impression groups and are stored, is repeatedly performed, and an avatar, which corresponds to the target face which the user intends to generate as the avatar, by a cognitive approach based on the repeatedly performed user's selection, so that a natural avatar, which is similar to the target face, may be expressed without a separate analysis or re-analysis process for the target face. | 05-08-2014 |