Image analysis – Applications – Target tracking or detecting
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-14
2009-12-15
Mehta, Bhavesh M (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Target tracking or detecting
C382S254000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07634108
ABSTRACT:
An automated face enhancement system and process which can automatically improve faces in videos or other images by applying cosmetic effects, given only a small amount of user interaction for initialization. For an input video, the system will first track the face and eye locations, and classify pixels in the face into different facial components based on local color models. The classification results of different frames are temporally smoothed to ensure temporal coherence. A set of cosmetic filters are then applied to different facial components.
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Cohen Michael
Wang Jue
Lyon Katrina A.
Lyon & Harr LLP
Mehta Bhavesh M
Microsoft Corp.
Patel Nirav G
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