Method and system for recognizing employees in a physical...

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2011-06-07

2011-06-07

Werner, Brian P (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Applications

Personnel identification

C382S103000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07957565

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a method and system for recognizing employees among the people in a physical space based on automatic behavior analysis of the people in a preferred embodiment. The present invention captures a plurality of input images of the people in the physical space by a plurality of means for capturing images. The present invention processes the plurality of input images in order to understand the behavioral characteristics of the people for the employee recognition purpose. The behavior analysis can comprise a path analysis as one of the characterization methods. The path analysis collects a plurality of trip information for each tracked person during a predefined window of time. The trip information can comprise spatial and temporal attributes, such as coordinates of the person's position, trip time, trip length, and average velocity for each of the plurality of trips. Based on the employee recognition criteria applied to the trip information, the present invention distinguishes employees from non-employees during a predefined window of time. The processes are based on a novel usage of a plurality of computer vision technologies to analyze the behavior of the people from the plurality of input images.

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