Image analysis – Color image processing
Reexamination Certificate
2003-09-30
2008-07-15
Mehta, Bhavesh (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Color image processing
C382S164000, C382S190000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07400761
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for image attention analysis are described. In one aspect, image attention is modeled by preprocessing an image to generate a quantized set of image blocks. A contrast-based saliency map for modeling one-to-three levels of image attention is then generated from the quantized image blocks.
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