Image analysis – Applications – Personnel identification
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-25
2006-07-25
Wu, Jingge (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Applications
Personnel identification
C382S254000, C358S531000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07082211
ABSTRACT:
A retouching method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image involves acquiring a digital image containing one or more faces and detecting a location of facial feature points in the faces, where the facial feature points include points identifying salient features such as skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and hair. The location of the facial feature points are used to segment the face into different regions such as skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, neck and hair regions. Facially relevant characteristics of the different regions are determined and, based on these facially relevant characteristics, an ensemble of enhancement filters are selected, each customized especially for a particular region, and the default parameters for the enhancement filters are selected. The enhancement filters are then executed on the particular regions, thereby producing an enhanced digital image from the digital image.
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Bolin Mark R.
Matraszek Tomasz
Nicponski Henry
Simon Richard A.
Carter Aaron
Eastman Kodak Company
Woods David M.
Wu Jingge
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