Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090262987 | Automatic face detection and identity masking in images, and applications thereof - A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity. | 10-22-2009 |
20120070042 | Automatic Face Detection and Identity Masking In Images, and Applications Thereof - A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity. | 03-22-2012 |
20130204905 | REMAPPING LOCALITY-SENSITIVE HASH VECTORS TO COMPACT BIT VECTORS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a hash vector r, a vector of locality-sensitive hash values, each hash value being an element of the hash vector r, each element having an index position; and generating a compact vector v corresponding to the hash vector r, wherein the compact vector v is a vector of compact elements each having an index position, wherein each compact element corresponds to the element of the hash vector r having the same index position, and wherein each compact element is a b-bit integer selected from the set of all b-bit integers {0, 1, . . . , 2 | 08-08-2013 |
20140016706 | TRANSFORMATION INVARIANT MEDIA MATCHING - This disclosure relates to transformation invariant media matching. A fingerprinting component can generate a transformation invariant identifier for media content by adaptively encoding the relative ordering of signal markers in media content. The signal markers can be adaptively encoded via reference point geometry, or ratio histograms. An identification component compares the identifier against a set of identifiers for known media content, and the media content can be matched or identified as a function of the comparison. | 01-16-2014 |
20140032583 | Multi-Resolution Exploration of Large Image Datasets - The specification relates to providing an image space. The image space represents a first sampling of images in increasing distance from a seed image. The first sampling shows a number of images an initial distance value from the seed image and representative images of image groups a distance value that is different from the initial distance value from the seed image. The system is capable of browsing and modifying the image space responsive to at least one input. When modified, the system provides a second sampling of the images in increasing distance from an image related to a target image. The second sampling shows a number of images a certain distance value from the image related to the target image and representative images of image groups a distance value that is different from the certain distance value from the image related to the target image. | 01-30-2014 |
20140105505 | NEAR DUPLICATE IMAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining image search results. One of the methods includes generating a plurality of feature vectors for each image in a collection of images, wherein each feature vector is associated with an image tile of an image, wherein each feature vector corresponds to one of a plurality of predetermined visual words. All images in the collection of images that share at least a threshold number of matching visual words associated with matching image tiles are classified as near-duplicate images. | 04-17-2014 |
20140118390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUPING RELATED PHOTOGRAPHS - A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for interacting with images having similar content. In an embodiment, a method may include identifying a plurality of photographs as including a common characteristic. The method may also include generating a flipbook media item including the plurality of photographs. The method may further include associating one or more interactive control features with the flipbook media item. | 05-01-2014 |
20140119664 | IMAGE DENOISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying a first portion of a facial image in a first image, wherein the first portion includes noise. A corresponding portion of the facial image is identified in a second image, wherein the corresponding portion includes less noise than the first portion. One or more filter parameters of the first portion are determined based upon, at least in part, the first portion and the corresponding portion. At least a portion of the noise from the first portion is smoothed based upon, at least in part, the one or more filter parameters. At least a portion of face specific details from the corresponding portion is added to the first portion. | 05-01-2014 |
20140119672 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING LEARNED NON-PHOTOREALISTIC EFFECTS - Systems, methods and computer readable media for image enhancement using learned non-photorealistic effects. In some implementations, a method can include obtaining an original image. The method can also include analyzing the original image to determine one or more characteristics of the original image. The method can further include selecting one or more filters based on the one or more characteristics and applying the one or more filters to the original image to generate a modified image. The method can include causing the modified image to be displayed. | 05-01-2014 |
20140198178 | Methods and Systems for Creating Swivel Views From a Handheld Device - Examples of methods and systems for creating swivel views from handheld video are described. In some examples, a method may be performed by a handheld device to receive or capture a video of a target object and the video may include a plurality of frames and content of the target object from a plurality of viewpoints. The device may determine one or more approximately corresponding frames of the video including content of the target object from a substantially matching viewpoint and may align the approximately corresponding frames of the video based on one or more feature points of the target object to generate an aligned video. The device may provide sampled frames from multiple viewpoints from the aligned video, configured for viewing the target object in a rotatable manner, such as in a swivel view format. | 07-17-2014 |