Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Feature extraction
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-22
2008-04-22
Bali, Vikkram (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Feature extraction
C345S419000, C345S473000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10800732
ABSTRACT:
Features of a mouth in a current image of a sequence of digital images of a human face may be estimated by deriving a deformable mouth model template in an iterative process. The process may include minimizing an energy function receiving iteration-dependent arguments to determine optimal transformation parameters of an iteration-dependent transformation, and transforming components of the deformable mouth model template by the iteration-dependent transformation having the optimal transformation parameters. The deformable mouth model template is initialized more than once during the process. The deformable mouth model template may include modeling of teeth.
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Rodyushkin Konstantin
Zhislina Victoria
Bali Vikkram
Intel Corporation
Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer LLP
Redding Thomas M
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