Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080243614 | ADAPTIVE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique of adaptive advertising is provided. The technique includes obtaining at least one of demographic and behavioral profiles of a plurality of individuals in an environment and adjusting an advertising strategy in the environment of one or more products based upon the demographic and behavioral profiles of the plurality of individuals. | 10-02-2008 |
20080259163 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED MULTIPLE TARGET TRACKING - A method and system for distributed tracking of multiple targets is disclosed. Multiple targets to be tracked by a plurality of trackers are detected in a frame. The motion state variable of each of the plurality of trackers is calculated in the E-step of a variational Expectation-Maximization algorithm. Further, the data association variable of each of the plurality of trackers is calculated in the M-step of the algorithm. Depending on the motion state variable and the data association variable, the multiple targets are tracked. | 10-23-2008 |
20080310759 | GENERIC FACE ALIGNMENT VIA BOOSTING - There is provided a discriminative framework for image alignment. Image alignment is generally the process of moving and deforming a template to minimize the distance between the template and an image. There are essentially three elements to image alignment, namely template representation, distance metric, and optimization method. For template representation, given a face dataset with ground truth landmarks, a boosting-based classifier is trained that is able to learn the decision boundary between two classes-the warped images from ground truth landmarks (e.g., positive class) and those from perturbed landmarks (e.g., negative class). A set of trained weak classifiers based on Haar-like rectangular features determines a boosted appearance model. A distance metric is a score from the strong classifier, and image alignment is the process of optimizing (e.g., maximizing) the classification score. On the generic face alignment problem, the proposed framework greatly improves the robustness, accuracy, and efficiency of alignment. | 12-18-2008 |
20090257625 | METHODS INVOLVING FACE MODEL FITTING - A method for face model fitting comprising, receiving a first observed image, receiving a second observed image, and fitting an active appearance model of a third image to the second observed image and the first observed image with an algorithm that includes a first function of a mean-square-error between a warped image of the second observed image and a synthesis of the active appearance model and a second function of a mean-square-error between the warped image of the second observed image and an appearance data of the first observed image. | 10-15-2009 |
20090290753 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GAZE ESTIMATION - A gaze estimation method and system, the method including capturing a video sequence of images with an image capturing system, designating at least one landmark in a head portion of the captured video sequence, fitting a virtual model of the head portion to the actual head portion in the captured video sequence, and determining the gaze estimation. | 11-26-2009 |
20090322866 | SECURITY CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Embodiments of the invention include a security checkpoint system that has a camera configured for obtaining a first photographic image of an individual, a photographic image scanner configured for scanning a second photographic image, and a comparator mechanism for comparing the first photographic image with the second photographic image to ascertain whether the second photographic image is of the individual. Other embodiments include a method for automatedly developing security-related characteristics for an individual. | 12-31-2009 |
20100027841 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A SIGNAL STRUCTURE FROM A MOVING VIDEO PLATFORM - The present invention aims at providing a method for detecting a signal structure from a moving vehicle. The method for detecting signal structure includes capturing an image from a camera mounted on the moving vehicle. The method further includes restricting a search space by predefining candidate regions in the image, extracting a set of features of the image within each candidate region and detecting the signal structure accordingly. | 02-04-2010 |
20100246980 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC LANDMARK LABELING WITH MINIMAL SUPERVISION - A system and method for estimating a set of landmarks for a large image ensemble employs only a small number of manually labeled images from the ensemble and avoids labor-intensive and error-prone object detection, tracking and alignment learning task limitations associated with manual image labeling techniques. A semi-supervised least squares congealing approach is employed to minimize an objective function defined on both labeled and unlabeled images. A shape model is learned on-line to constrain the landmark configuration. A partitioning strategy allows coarse-to-fine landmark estimation. | 09-30-2010 |
20110013845 | OPTIMAL SUBSPACES FOR FACE RECOGNITION - A technique for optimizing object recognition is disclosed. The technique includes receiving at least one image of an object and at least one reference image. The technique further includes identifying at least one performance metric corresponding to an object recognition task. The identified performance metric is optimized to generate the corresponding optimized performance metric by determining an optimal subspace based on a determined objective function corresponding to the object recognition task and a difference between the received image and the corresponding reference image. Subsequently, the technique includes comparing the received image with the reference image based on the optimized performance metric for performing the object recognition task. | 01-20-2011 |
20120154582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTOCOL ADHERENCE - The system and method disclosed herein provides an integrated and automated workflow, sensor, and reasoning system that automatically detects breaches in protocols, appropriately alarms and records these breaches, facilitates staff adoption of protocol adherence, and ultimately enables the study of protocols for care comparative effectiveness. The system provides real-time alerts to medical personnel in the actual processes of care, thereby reducing the number of negative patient events and ultimately improving staff behavior with respect to protocol adherence. | 06-21-2012 |
20120237117 | OPTIMAL GRADIENT PURSUIT FOR IMAGE ALIGNMENT - A method for image alignment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring a facial image of a person and using a discriminative face alignment model to fit a generic facial mesh to the facial image to facilitate locating of facial features. The discriminative face alignment model may include a generative shape model component and a discriminative appearance model component. Further, the discriminative appearance model component may have been trained to estimate a score function that minimizes the angle between a gradient direction and a vector pointing toward a ground-truth shape parameter. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 09-20-2012 |
20130054377 | PERSON TRACKING AND INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING - An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an advertising station including a display and configured to provide advertising content to potential customers via the display and one or more cameras configured to capture images of the potential customers when proximate to the advertising station. The system may also include a data processing system to analyze the captured images to determine gaze directions and body pose directions for the potential customers, and to determine interest levels of the potential customers in the advertising content based on the determined gaze directions and body pose directions. Various other systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 02-28-2013 |
20130114942 | Automatic Surveillance Video Matting Using a Shape Prior - A novel technique for performing video matting, which is built upon a proposed image matting algorithm that is fully automatic is disclosed. The disclosed methods utilize a PCA-based shape model as a prior for guiding the matting process, so that manual interactions required by most existing image matting methods are unnecessary. By applying the image matting algorithm to these foreground windows, on a per frame basis, a fully automated video matting process is attainable. The process of aligning the shape model with the object is simultaneously optimized based on a quadratic cost function. | 05-09-2013 |
20130138493 | EPISODIC APPROACHES FOR INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING - An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an advertising station configured to output advertising content to a potential customer and a data processing system including a processor and a memory having application instructions for execution by the processor. The application instructions may include an identification engine to identify the potential customer, a tracking engine to track encounters between the potential customer and the advertising station, and a content engine to select the advertising content to be output to the potential customer based on the tracked encounters between the potential customer and the advertising station. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138499 | USAGE MEASURENT TECHNIQUES AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING - An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes an advertising display configured to provide an advertisement to potential customers and a camera configured to capture images of the potential customers when the potential customers pass the advertising display. The system may also include an image processing system having a processor and a memory. The memory may include application instructions for execution by the processor, and the image processing system may be configured to execute the application instructions to derive usage characteristics of the potential customers with respect to the advertising display through analysis of the captured images. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138505 | ANALYTICS-TO-CONTENT INTERFACE FOR INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING - An advertising system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a processor and a memory including application instructions for execution by the processor. The application instructions may include a visual analytics engine to analyze visual information including human activity and a content engine separate from the visual analytics engine to provide advertising content to one or more potential customers. Further, the instructions may include an interface module to enable information generated from analysis of the human activity by the visual analytics engine to be transferred to the content engine in accordance with a specification in which the information generated is characterized with a hierarchical, object-oriented data structure. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
20130173504 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTION RECOGNITION - Systems provided herein include a learning environment and an agent. The learning environment includes an avatar and an object. A state signal corresponding to a state of the learning environment includes a location and orientation of the avatar and the object. The agent is adapted to receive the state signal, to issue an action capable of generating at least one change in the state of the learning environment, to produce a set of observations relevant to a task, to hypothesize a set of action models configured to explain the observations, and to vet the set of action models to identify a learned model for the task. | 07-04-2013 |
20130177244 | IMAGE CONCEALING VIA EFFICIENT FEATURE SELECTION - 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. | 07-11-2013 |
20130223676 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPATIALLY RELATING VIEWS OF SKY IMAGES ACQUIRED AT SPACED APART LOCATIONS - Homography-based imaging apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus may include a processor ( | 08-29-2013 |
20130243309 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC LANDMARK LABELING WITH MINIMAL SUPERVISION - A system and method for estimating a set of landmarks for a large image ensemble employs only a small number of manually labeled images from the ensemble and avoids labor-intensive and error-prone object detection, tracking and alignment learning task limitations associated with manual image labeling techniques. A semi-supervised least squares congealing approach is employed to minimize an objective function defined on both labeled and unlabeled images. A shape model is learned on-line to constrain the landmark configuration. A partitioning strategy allows coarse-to-fine landmark estimation. | 09-19-2013 |
20130287248 | REAL-TIME VIDEO TRACKING SYSTEM - A method for detecting and tracking a target includes detecting the target using a plurality of feature cues, fusing the plurality of feature cues to form a set of target hypotheses, tracking the target based on the set of target hypotheses and a scene context analysis, and updating the tracking of the target based on a target motion model. | 10-31-2013 |
20130294686 | OPTIMAL GRADIENT PURSUIT FOR IMAGE ALIGNMENT - A method for image alignment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring a facial image of a person and using a discriminative face alignment model to fit a generic facial mesh to the facial image to facilitate locating of facial features. The discriminative face alignment model may include a generative shape model component and a discriminative appearance model component. Further, the discriminative appearance model component may have been trained to estimate a score function that minimizes the angle between a gradient direction and a vector pointing toward a ground-truth shape parameter. Additional methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 11-07-2013 |
20140071287 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ACTIVITY SUMMARY OF A PERSON - In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a method includes receiving one or more videos from one or more image capture devices. The method further includes generating a video-loop of the person from the one or more videos. The video-loop depicts the person in the commercial site. The method also includes generating an action clip from the video-loop. The action clip includes a suspicious action performed by the person in the commercial site. The method further includes generating an activity summary of the person including the video-loop and the action clip. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072171 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS - In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a new video from one or more sensors and generating a new content graph (CG) based on the new video. The method also includes comparing the new CG with a plurality of prior CGs. The method further includes identifying a first portion of the new CG matching a portion of a first prior CG and a second portion of the new CG matching a portion of the second prior CG. The method further includes analyzing a first set of semantic annotations (SAs) associated with the portion of the first prior CG and a second set of SAs associated with the portion of the second prior CG. The method further includes generating a sequence of SAs for the new video based on the analysis of the first and the second set of SAs. | 03-13-2014 |
20140117077 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ASSETS - A method for identifying assets is provided. The method includes illuminating an identification pattern associated with the asset with non-visible light. The identification pattern includes retroreflective material that represents identity information of the asset. The method further includes adjusting either a shutter speed of an image sensor, or a power of the non-visible light, or both, based on motion state of the asset. The image sensor is configured to receive response of the retroreflective material to the non-visible light. Furthermore, the method includes the step of identifying the asset based on decoded identity information. The decoded identity information is obtained by processing the response of the retroreflective material. | 05-01-2014 |
20140321758 | IMAGE CONCEALING VIA EFFICIENT FEATURE SELECTION - 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. | 10-30-2014 |