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20080199055 | Method and apparatus for extracting facial features from image containing face - Provided are a method and apparatus for extracting facial features from an image containing a face. The method and apparatus filter an input image using a filter set for face recognition at each of predetermined locations in the input image, merge values obtained by filtering the input image at locations, which are horizontally symmetrical to each other with respect to the center of the face, and synthesize values obtained by filtering the input image at locations which are not symmetrical to each other with respect to the center of the face with the merged values. Therefore, the time, feature values, and storage space required to extract or compare facial features can be significantly reduced. In addition, a face recognition system that runs well on low specification hardware can be implemented. | 08-21-2008 |
20080199056 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE-PICKUP DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image-processing device configured to process image data including at least one face image includes an image-input unit configured to input the image data, a face-detection unit configured to detect the at least one face image from an image frame of the input image data, an importance-determination unit configured to determine importance of each of the at least one detected face image, and a priority-determination unit configured to determine priority of each of the at least one detected face image based on the determined importance. The importance-determination unit determines the importance considering data on the size and position of the detected face image shown in the image frame, and a priority determined by the last time by the priority-determination unit. | 08-21-2008 |
20080205712 | Separating Directional Lighting Variability in Statistical Face Modelling Based on Texture Space Decomposition - A technique for determining a characteristic of a face or certain other object within a scene captured in a digital image including acquiring an image and applying a linear texture model that is constructed based on a training data set and that includes a class of objects including a first subset of model components that exhibit a dependency on directional lighting variations and a second subset of model components which are independent of directional lighting variations. A fit of the model to the face or certain other object is obtained including adjusting one or more individual values of one or more of the model components of the linear texture model. Based on the obtained fit of the model to the face or certain other object in the scene, a characteristic of the face or certain other object is determined. | 08-28-2008 |
20080212849 | Method and Apparatus For Facial Image Acquisition and Recognition - A method and apparatus for facial image acquisition and/or recognition used for person identification. In infrared face image acquisition, near infrared (NIR) images of a face are captured by an imaging unit with the face illuminated by active NIR lights; an NIR optical filter is used in the imaging unit to minimize visible lights in environments while allowing NIR lights to pass through. NIR face images thus acquired provides good image quality for the purpose of face recognition. In face recognition, eyes are localized in NIR face image(s) quickly and accurately by detecting specular highlight reflection in each eye, whereby face is then localized. The invention effectively problems caused by environmental lights, and leads to accurate and fast face recognition under variable lighting conditions. Moreover, the methods use a non-intrusive and user-friendly way of active lighting for face image acquisition and recognition because the NIR lights are in the invisible spectrum. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212850 | EYELID DETECTION APPARATUS AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR - An eyelid detection apparatus includes a face image storing means storing a plurality of face images of a subject captured at different timings, a change detecting means detecting changes in each face image caused by blinking after processing the plurality of face images stored by the face image storing means, and an eyelid detecting means detecting a position of an eyelid of the subject based on the changes detected by the change detecting means. | 09-04-2008 |
20080212851 | METHOD FOR SELECTING AN EMPHASIS IMAGE FROM AN IMAGE COLLECTION BASED UPON CONTENT RECOGNITION - A method for selecting an emphasis image from a collection of images based on facial identification comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a collection of digital images; (b) detecting image patterns indicative of the presence of one or more faces in the digital images, thereby identifying one or more detected faces for each image in which a face is detected; (c) recognizing one or more faces from the detected faces for each of the images in which a face is detected; and (d) scoring an image based on the relative frequency of occurrence of a recognized face within the collection of images, thereby producing an emphasis image characteristic of the most frequently occurring face in the collection of images. | 09-04-2008 |
20080219516 | IMAGE MATCHING APPARATUS, IMAGE MATCHING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An image matching apparatus comprising, a detector adapted to detects, from an input image containing an object to be matched, a region where the object exists, an estimation unit adapted to estimates a parameter regarding a displaying characteristic based on an image of the region, a correction unit adapted to corrects the displaying characteristic of the input image based on the parameter, and a matching unit adapted to matches the corrected input image containing the object to be matched with an image containing a matching object. | 09-11-2008 |
20080219517 | Illumination Detection Using Classifier Chains - A face illumination normalization method includes acquiring a digital image including a face that appears to be illuminated unevenly. One or more uneven illumination classifier programs are applied to the face data to determine the presence of the face within the digital image and/or the uneven illumination condition of the face. The uneven illumination condition may be corrected to thereby generate a corrected face image appearing to have more uniform illumination, for example, to enhance face recognition. | 09-11-2008 |
20080219518 | Red Eye False Positive Filtering Using Face Location and Orientation - An image is acquired including a red eye defect and non red eye defect regions having a red color. An initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions is performed. A location and orientation of one or more faces within the image are determined. The candidate redeye regions are analyzed based on the determined location and orientation of the one or more faces to determine a probability that each redeye region appears at a position of an eye. Any confirmed redeye regions having at least a certain threshold probability of being a false positive are removed as candidate redeye defect regions. The remaining redeye defect regions are corrected and a red eye corrected image is generated. | 09-11-2008 |
20080226140 | IMAGE SELECTING DEVICE, IMAGE SELECTING METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image extracting unit and an album setting unit are provided. The image extracting unit sets a predetermined image of a plurality of images as a group photograph and extracts, from the plurality of images, images including each of face images of the group photograph. The album setting unit records image identification information of the extracted images in a predetermined file. | 09-18-2008 |
20080232650 | FACE REGION DETECTING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capturing section captures a face of an observed person. A position detecting section detects, from a face image expressing the face captured by the image capturing section, one of a position expressing a characteristic of a nose and a position expressing a characteristic of a region between eyebrows. A computing section computes a past relative position of a predetermined region of the face that is based on the position detected in the past by the position detecting section. A region position detecting section detects a position of the predetermined region on the basis of the past relative position computed by the computing section and the current position detected by the position detecting section. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232651 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING FACE REGION - A face region detecting apparatus includes a face detection and recognition unit for encoding a face image into a face feature code through an internal operation process and storing the face feature code in the form of a database, in which the face image is extracted in a face detection step of extracting a face image from an inputted image material; and a face detection server for transmitting the face feature code through a network, comparing the transmitted face feature code with face feature codes previously stored in a database to determine whether face features are matched, and transmitting a face recognition result to the face detection and recognition unit. Accordingly, a face image of a specific person is converted into a face feature code, whereby the face feature code can be applied to recognize and detect the specific person or to search for only the specific person from a DVR real-time input image or a recorded image screen. Furthermore, an infrared LED and an infrared iris are provided in receiving an external image of a person, thereby making it possible to stably obtain a face image without being affected by uneven brightness distribution or inconsistent external light source environments. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232652 | DEVICE, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM FOR EVALUATING IMAGE - An image evaluation device includes: an information acquiring unit to acquire, from an image containing at least one face, at least one type of information including at least the number of the at least one face and optionally including any of a size of the face, a position of the face in the image, an orientation of the face, a rotational angle of the face and a detection score of the face; and an individual evaluation value calculating unit to statistically calculate an individual evaluation value indicating a result of evaluation for each type of information based on the acquired information. | 09-25-2008 |
20080240516 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method - An image processing apparatus, includes: a transforming area setter, operable to set at least a part of an area of a target image as a transforming area; a transforming area divider, operable to arrange a plurality of dividing points in the transforming area and to divide the transforming area into a plurality of small areas by using a line connecting the dividing points; and a transforming processor, operable to move a position of at least one of the dividing points to transform at least one of the small areas, thereby transforming an image in the transforming area. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240517 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an imaging device, and image data representing an object scene captured by the imaging device is retained in an SDRAM. A CPU recognizes a facial image of a person from the retained image data. The CPU further specifies a partial background image being a background of a head of the person out of a background image of the person from the same image data on the basis of a recognition result of the facial image. Blurring processing is executed on the specified partial background image. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240518 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE CAPTURE - An image capture apparatus comprises a first imaging device operable to capture an image feedback image, generator for generating a feedback image from a captured image for output to a display, a facial recognition unit operable to determine the position of a face within the feedback image, an image corruptor operable to corrupt the feedback image with respect to the position of a face within the feedback image as determined by the facial recognition unit, and an image capture initiator operable to initiate the capture of an output image subsequent to corruption of the feedback image. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240519 | RECOGNITION DEVICE, RECOGNITION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - An object of the invention is to provide a user in performing a work with a proper advice and support the user's work. An advice database stores advice data for supporting a user in performing a work. An advice selector selects advice data in accordance with the user's work from the advice database. An advice presenter presents the user with the advice data selected by the advice selector. A user status recognizer recognizes a reaction of the user to the advice data presented by the advice presenter. A user dependence estimator estimates a dependence degree of the user indicating how much the user relies on the presented advice data, based on the user's reaction recognized by the user status recognizer. The advice selector selects advice data in accordance with the user's dependence degree estimated by the user dependence estimator from the advice database. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240520 | Imaging apparatus, display control method and recording medium - In a digital camera | 10-02-2008 |
20080247608 | Method, System, Storage Medium, and Data Structure for Image Recognition Using Multilinear Independent Component Analysis - A method, system, computer-readable medium and data structure are provided for processing image data in connection with image recognition. A response of an image (FIG. | 10-09-2008 |
20080247609 | RULE-BASED COMBINATION OF A HIERARCHY OF CLASSIFIERS FOR OCCLUSION DETECTION - An occlusion detection system and method include a decomposer configured to decompose an image into a set of hierarchical parts. A hierarchy of classifiers is employed to detect features in the image and the hierarchical parts. A logical operation is configured to logically combine a classification result from at least two of the classifiers to detect an occlusion state of the image. | 10-09-2008 |
20080247610 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program for Processing Information - An information processing apparatus for generating a database indicating mapping between characters and the characters' face images, includes a list generating unit for generating a list of characters, appearing in a video content, based on metadata of the video content, a detecting unit for detecting a character's face image from the video content, a model generating unit for generating a feature quantity model indicating a feature of the detected character's face image and a mapping unit for mapping the feature quantity model generated based on the video content to a character contained in the character list. | 10-09-2008 |
20080247611 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FACE RECOGNITION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Disclosed is a face recognition apparatus for previously registering a face image of a person, receiving a moving image in which face identification is intended to be performed, and performing face recognition in the received moving image. The apparatus includes the following elements. A face registration unit registers the face of a person as an image. A face detection unit detects a face in a frame of an input moving image. A face tracking unit tracks the detected face in frames of the input moving image. A face identification unit compares the detected face, which is being tracked by the face tracking unit, with the registered face registered in the face registration unit to identify the face. A stabilization unit stabilizes the result of face identification by the face identification unit. | 10-09-2008 |
20080247612 | Method and System for Facilitating Tasks Using Images and Selections from Object Class and Task Menus - An image of at least one object ( | 10-09-2008 |
20080253623 | Method for recognizing content in an image sequence - A method for recognizing content in an image sequence is provided, the method includes the steps of: detecting at least one face appearing in at least one frame of an image sequence under test; recognizing characteristic features of the at least one face; comparing the characteristic features to known features of characters stored in a database, thereby deciding whether the face represents a known character; detecting and recognizing at least one additional feature in at least one frame of the image sequence under test and at least one relation between the appearance of the known character and the at least one additional feature; and comparing the at least one relation to metadata comprising known relations stored in the database each one assigned to a particular known image sequence, thereby recognizing if the image sequence under test at least partially equals one of the known image sequences. | 10-16-2008 |
20080260212 | System for indicating deceit and verity - An improved method for detecting truth or deceit ( | 10-23-2008 |
20080260213 | FACE IMAGE DETECTION DEVICE, FACE IMAGE DETECTION METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An face image detection device capable of detecting the location of the face image with high accuracy without increasing time for detecting the location of the face image or electric consumption required for detecting the location of face image includes: a rotated reduced image data generation unit operable to generate n pieces of rotated reduced image data by reducing the input image data and rotating the reduced input image data by 360×i/n, where n is an integer equal to or larger than 2 and i ranges from 0 to n−1, each of the rotated reduced image data is rotated at intervals of 360/n degrees; and a face detection unit operable to detect the location of the face image from among the n pieces of rotated reduced image data. | 10-23-2008 |
20080267458 | FACE IMAGE LOG CREATION - A system and method are provided for constructing face image logs from video surveillance that are complete and concise in the sense that the logs contain only the best images available for each individual observed. The quality of the face images are assessed and scored based upon a plurality of image criteria. The image criteria are combined to an overall quality score. The quality score is associated with the face image enabling the face log to be purged so that only high quality face images are contained in the log. | 10-30-2008 |
20080267459 | Computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon training program and a training apparatus - One of a plurality of prepared given expressions is displayed on a screen. After the given expression is presented to the user, the position of a face feature point is detected from a face image of the user taken by a camera cartridge. Based on the detected position of the face feature point, the user's expression in the face image is expressed in accordance with the evaluation criteria corresponding to the given expression, and an image representing the evaluation result is displayed on the screen. Thus, the user can effectively train the mimetic muscles. | 10-30-2008 |
20080267460 | Occupant information detection system - An occupant information detection system for detecting information related to a vehicle occupant on a vehicle seat includes an image detecting section facing a vehicle seat area taking a three-dimensional image, an information extraction processing section extracting information related to a three-dimensional surface profile of a detected object on a vehicle seat based on the three-dimensional image, a conversion processing section converting the extracted information into numerical coordinates of a predetermined coordinate system, and a computation processing section deriving a computed value by subtracting an average of first and second coordinate components from a third coordinate component. The system also includes a determination processing section determining the concave-convex shape of a line segment formed by the arbitrary points and the middle point based on the computed value. | 10-30-2008 |
20080267461 | REAL-TIME FACE TRACKING IN A DIGITAL IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE - A database includes an identifier and associated parameters for each of a number of faces to be recognized. A new acquired image from an image stream is received potentially including one or more face regions. Face detection is applied to at least a portion of the acquired image to provide a set of candidate face regions each having a given size and a respective location. Using the database, face recognition is selectively applied to at least one of the candidate face regions to provide an identifier for a face recognized in a candidate face region. A portion of the image is stored including the recognized face in association with at least one image of the image stream. | 10-30-2008 |
20080273764 | Personal Gesture Signature - The present invention relates to a system and a method of verifying the identity of a user and based thereon controlling access to user specific data or actions, said method verifies said identity by receiving an identification key, and based on a comparison with a pre stored reference identification key access to said user specific data or action is controlled, said identification key being obtained by the steps of: visually recording a gesture by recording the trajectory of a hand of said user when the user uses said hand for performing a gesture, extracting gesture characteristics from said visually recorded gesture, performing said verification by comparing an identification key comprising said gesture characteristics with a pre stored reference identification key comprising reference gesture characteristics. An advantage of the gesture signature over “static” approaches like iris scans or face recognition is reliability. The dynamic data inherent in a gesture signature strongly increases the verification confidence. | 11-06-2008 |
20080273765 | IMAGE STORAGE DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE STORAGE METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image storage device includes a facial-expression-correlation estimator configured to estimate a facial expression correlation representing a degree of correlation between a facial expression in a face image and a predetermined reference facial expression, the face image being included in time-varying image data; a facial-expression estimator configured to detect, through estimation based on transition of the facial expression correlation, a situation where the facial expression in the face image and the predetermined reference facial expression are expected to come to have a predetermined correlative relationship within a predetermined period; and an image-storage controller configured to exercise control so that the image data in the predetermined period from the detection is maintained in an image-data storage unit. | 11-06-2008 |
20080273766 | FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON ADAPTIVE LEARNING - A face recognition system based on adaptive learning includes a specific person detection and tracking unit for detecting and tracking a specific person from a moving image. A facial feature extraction unit extracts a plurality of facial feature vectors from the detected and tracked specific person. A face recognition unit searches for a given registration model by comparing the extracted facial feature vectors with facial feature vectors of the registration models previously stored in a user registration model database. A learning target selection unit selects a facial feature vector to be added to a record of the given registration model from among the extracted facial feature vectors. A registration model learning unit adds and updates the selected facial feature vector to the record of the given registration model. | 11-06-2008 |
20080279423 | RECOVERING PARAMETERS FROM A SUB-OPTIMAL IMAGE - A subregion-based image parameter recovery system and method for recovering image parameters from a single image containing a face taken under sub-optimal illumination conditions. The recovered image parameters (including albedo, illumination, and face geometry) can be used to generate face images under a new lighting environment. The method includes dividing the face in the image into numerous smaller regions, generating an albedo morphable model for each region, and using a Markov Random Fields (MRF)-based framework to model the spatial dependence between neighboring regions. Different types of regions are defined, including saturated, shadow, regular, and occluded regions. Each pixel in the image is classified and assigned to a region based on intensity, and then weighted based on its classification. The method decouples the texture from the geometry and illumination models, and then generates an objective function that is iteratively solved using an energy minimization technique to recover the image parameters. | 11-13-2008 |
20080279424 | Method of Identifying Faces from Face Images and Corresponding Device and Computer Program - A method identifying faces from facial images called query images, associated with at least one person, including a learning phase using learning images and a recognition phase used to identify the faces appearing in query images. The learning phase includes filtering the images, applied on the basis of a group of at least two learning facial images associated with the at least one person, enabling selection of at least one learning image representing the face to be identified. The recognition phase uses only the learning images selected during the learning phase. Filtering is performed using at least one of the thresholds belonging to the group including: a maximum distance taking at least account of the membership of the vectors in a cloud constituted by the vectors; and a maximum distance between the vectors and vectors rebuilt after projection of the vectors on a space associated with said cloud of vectors. | 11-13-2008 |
20080279425 | HUMAN FACE RECOGNITION AND USER INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL CAMERA AND VIDEO CAMERA - The present invention discloses a face recognition system which includes a face recognition method and associate apparatus. The disclosed method provides improved face matching accuracy by introduction of user intervention. When a target face to be recognized has been detected, a candidate list is generated and the user is allowed to actively select a matching candidate face out of the candidate list by entering a user input through a user interface provided by the disclosed apparatus. Data of the target face are then automatically registered to a database where the candidate face data are stored for updating the data of the matching candidate. | 11-13-2008 |
20080279426 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING FACE OF USER USING LIGHT MASK - A system and method for verifying the face of a user using a light mask are provided. The system includes a facial feature extraction unit for extracting a facial feature vector from a facial image received from a camera. A non-user Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) configuration unit generates a non-user GMM from a facial image stored in a non-user database (DB). A user GMM configuration unit generates a user GMM by applying light masks to a facial image stored in a user DB. A log-likelihood value calculation unit inputs the facial feature vector both to the non-user GMM and to the user GMM, thus calculating log-likelihood values. A user verification unit compares the calculated log-likelihood values with a predetermined threshold, thus verifying whether the received facial image is a facial image of the user. | 11-13-2008 |
20080279427 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device which is capable of efficiently performing face-detection, red-eye detection, and/or image data correction including red-eye correction without waste when there are a plurality of chances of performing the image data correction including the red-eye correction on a single image. A printing apparatus acquires image data and information concerning a face detection process performed on the image data from an image pickup apparatus. A controller of the printing apparatus determines to cause the printing apparatus to perform a face detection process on the acquired image data, based on the acquired information. The information contains an information item concerning detection accuracy of the performed face detection process, and a face detection process with higher detection accuracy than the detection accuracy described in the information is determined as the face detection process to be performed by the printing apparatus. | 11-13-2008 |
20080285816 | Digital image processing apparatus for displaying histogram and method thereof - A digital image processing apparatus displaying a histogram. The apparatus includes a face recognition portion recognizing at least one face area in an image, a histogram generation portion generating a histogram of the face area, and a display for displaying the histogram of the face area or an indicator indicating an average value corresponding to the histogram of the face area. Accordingly, a histogram of a face area of a person, which is typically the main object of an image, is displayed. A preferred exposure value can be obtained from a user, the calculated exposure values can be corrected and the exposure of a photograph can be quantitatively seen. | 11-20-2008 |
20080285817 | Image pickup device, face detection method, and computer-readable recording medium - An image pickup device can effectively detect a face in accordance with an object without causing a user to do bothersome setting. A speed preference mode and a person-number preference mode both having different detection conditions of a face region are prepared beforehand as face detection modes. The user is caused to select a desired face detection mode, and minimum values of a face size set as detectable in a face detection and a maximum number of face regions to be detected are set to values corresponding to the face detection mode selected by the user. In a case where an image-pickup preparation is set by pressing a shutter key halfway, when the face detection mode is the speed preference mode, the mode is forcibly changed to the person-number preference mode. | 11-20-2008 |
20080292145 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, Image Processing Program Product, and Imaging Device - An image processing device includes: a face detection unit that detects a face region of a person from an image formed by a plurality of pixels; and a scene judgment unit that judges a scene of the image according to a pixel value of the face region of the person detected by the face detection unit and a pixel value of a nonface region excluding the face region in the image. | 11-27-2008 |
20080292146 | Security System Control for Monitoring Vehicular Compartments - Security system and method for monitoring vehicular compartments includes at least one optical image receiving unit arranged to receive optical images of a compartment of the vehicle, e.g., from at least a portion of the face of a person located at a driver's station in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, and produce image signals therefrom and a processor including an electronic facial-recognition system coupled to the optical image receiving unit(s) responsive to the image signals and controllably coupled to the enabling system, and an electronic storage device coupled to the facial-recognition system to store a set of image signals. The facial-recognition system enables ignition of the vehicle system only if signals representative of select characteristics of a scanned face of the person derived from the image signals produced by the optical image receiving unit(s) match a member of a set of signals stored in the electronic storage device. Each member representative of select characteristics of the scanned face of an authorized operator. | 11-27-2008 |
20080292147 | Facial recognition and the open mouth problem - A method of cropping a representation of a face for electronic processing, said method comprising: selecting a first geodesic contour about an invariant reference point on said face, setting a region within said first geodesic contour as a first mask, selecting a second geodesic contour about a boundary of said identified first region, setting a region within said second geodesic contour as a second mask, and forming a final mask from a union of said first mask and said second mask. | 11-27-2008 |
20080292148 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM - An image editing apparatus includes an image input unit including an image pickup circuit which takes a picture of a subject to obtain an image of a subject. A face detection circuit detects an image of a face of the subject from the image obtained from the image input unit. A face expression detection circuit detects at least any one of direction and expression of the face of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A pupil detection circuit detects images of pupils of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit. A catch-light composition circuit composes different catch-lights on the images of the pupils detected by the pupil detection circuit, according to any one of the direction and expression of the face detected by the face expression detection circuit. | 11-27-2008 |
20080298643 | COMPOSITE PERSON MODEL FROM IMAGE COLLECTION - A method of improving recognition of a particular person in images by constructing a composite model of at least the portion of the head of that particular person, includes acquiring a collection of images taken during a particular event; identifying image(s) having a particular person in the collection; identifying one or more features in the identified image(s) associated with that particular person; searching the collection using the identified features to identify the particular person in other images of the collection; and constructing a composite model of at least a portion of the particular person's head using identified images of the particular person. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298644 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE QUALITY - An image quality control system and method is disclosed. At least one infrared camera takes a screen image of a room. When there are a plurality of cameras, images of the cameras are synchronized with respect to time, and a specific object of the image is tracked to estimate image quality of the object. When there are a plurality of cameras, a 3D screen model is reconfigured, and positions of the cameras and the infrared lighting tools are controlled. Infrared lighting and the cameras are controlled, and particularly, optical axis direction, optical magnification, exposure time, and the iris of the camera can be amended. Next, a high-quality object image list can be generated so as to process the images. | 12-04-2008 |
20080298645 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A personal authentication apparatus including a facial region extraction which extracts an image of a facial region of a person obtained from image sensing input unit, a guide unit which guides motion of the person of interest, a feature amount extraction unit which extracts the feature amount of a face from the image of the facial region extracted by the facial region extraction unit while the motion is guided by the guide unit, a dictionary registration unit which registers the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit as a feature amount of the person of interest, and an authentication unit which authenticates the person of interest in accordance with the similarity between the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit, and a feature amount which is registered by the dictionary registration unit. | 12-04-2008 |
20080304714 | Pairwise Feature Learning With Boosting For Use In Face Detection - Systems and methods for training an AdaBoost based classifier for detecting symmetric objects, such as human faces, in a digital image. In one example embodiment, such a method includes first selecting a sub-window of a digital image. Next, the AdaBoost based classifier extracts multiple sets of two symmetric scalar features from the sub-window, one being in the right half side and one being in the left half side of the sub-window. Then, the AdaBoost based classifier minimizes the joint error of the two symmetric features for each set of two symmetric scalar features. Next, the AdaBoost based classifier selects one of the features from the set of two symmetric scalar features for each set of two symmetric scalar features. Finally, the AdaBoost based classifier linearly combines multiple weak classifiers, each of which corresponds to one of the selected features, into a stronger classifier. | 12-11-2008 |
20080304715 | INDIVIDUAL-IDENTIFYING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM EXECUTED IN INDIVIDUAL-IDENTIFYING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An individual-identifying communication system of the present invention comprises an imaging device; a display device capable of displaying an image based on image data obtained by said imaging device; a selection device for selecting a predetermined area within the displayed image; a storage device storing plural standard face information data and plural identification information data for specifying a mobile terminal to communicate with, each of the identification information data being associated with each standard face information data; an acquisition device acquiring acquisition face information data from image data; a standard face information data determination device determining the standard face information data corresponding to the acquisition face information data, based on the acquisition face information data acquired from selection area image data and plural standard face information data; and a communication device communicating with a mobile terminal assigned with identification information data corresponding to the standard face information data. | 12-11-2008 |
20080304716 | FACE RECOGNITION DEVICE - A face recognition device of the present invention comprises a plurality of imaging devices capable of simultaneously capturing the face of a person from directions different from one another, and a storage device, the device further comprising: a depression/protrusion data determination device determining data indicating difference of areas of portions in a predetermined color, as depression/protrusion data indicating facial depression/protrusion features of the person, by calculating the difference of the areas based on comparison of images including the face captured from two directions, the images being simultaneously captured using the plurality of imaging devices; and an identification device identifying the person by comparing the depression/protrusion data of the person determined by the depression/protrusion data determination device with individual identification data previously stored in the storage device to be the reference of comparison with the depression/protrusion data. | 12-11-2008 |
20080304717 | INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION DATA REGISTER - The individual identification data register of the present invention includes: a storage device storing projection matrix data showing a projection matrix generated from plural image data showing plural persons' faces and individual identification data showing a component value indicating a registered person's facial feature; and an arithmetic processing device executing the processing of calculating a component value showing the person's facial feature based on image data showing the person's face obtained by a camera and the projection matrix data stored in the storage device, determining whether or not individual identification data showing a component value generating an error smaller than a predetermined threshold value when compared with the calculated component value is stored in the storage device, and storing component value data showing the calculated component value into the storage device, as individual identification data, when determining that the individual identification data is not stored in the storage device. | 12-11-2008 |
20080304718 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CREATING PHOTO ALBUM - A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing one or more of the faces, a temporary trimming reference point determining unit determines a trimming reference point in the trimming reference area, an image rotating unit rotates the inputted image depending on the inclination of the inputted image, a trimming unit sets in the inputted image a layout frame of an image insertion area of a photo album template such that the layout reference point is positioned on the trimming reference point and the trimming reference area is contained within the layout frame and carries out trimming, and a template composition unit combines the trimmed area with the template. | 12-11-2008 |
20080310686 | DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEM AND METHOD OF STORING IMAGE DATA - A method of managing image data may include imaging a forward scene with a first camera assembly to generate a forward scene image file. A rearward scene may be imaged with a second camera assembly to generate rearward scene image data. Data derived from the rearward scene image data may be associated with the forward scene image file as an indication of an identity of the user of the camera assemblies. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310687 | Face Recognition Using Discriminatively Trained Orthogonal Tensor Projections - Systems and methods are described for face recognition using discriminatively trained orthogonal rank one tensor projections. In an exemplary system, images are treated as tensors, rather than as conventional vectors of pixels. During runtime, the system designs visual features—embodied as tensor projections—that minimize intraclass differences between instances of the same face while maximizing interclass differences between the face and faces of different people. Tensor projections are pursued sequentially over a training set of images and take the form of a rank one tensor, i.e., the outer product of a set of vectors. An exemplary technique ensures that the tensor projections are orthogonal to one another, thereby increasing ability to generalize and discriminate image features over conventional techniques. Orthogonality among tensor projections is maintained by iteratively solving an ortho-constrained eigenvalue problem in one dimension of a tensor while solving unconstrained eigenvalue problems in additional dimensions of the tensor. | 12-18-2008 |
20080310688 | Automated Indexing for Distributing Event Photography - The present method relates to the automated indexing of event images for distribution. The automated indexing can use automated facial recognition to determine which people are in each image. The images indexed in this fashion can be presented in a gallery, ordered by characteristics of the people in the images such as their name or room number, so as to facilitate the selection of the images by the people. The identification of the people in the images can be assisted by security or other information regarding the people that may be available to the event manager. Furthermore, the closeness of the relationships of two people can be inferred from the degree to which the people are in the same images, allowing the people in the images to be placed into groups, which can be hierarchical and/or overlapping, and which can assist in the organization of images being presented to the people, either in a gallery or electronic display format. | 12-18-2008 |
20080317295 | Imaging device, recording medium having recorded therein imaging control program, and imaging control method - When a shutter key is operated, characteristic data is acquired. A determination is made as to whether the characteristic data has been acquired, and face image shooting processing is executed on condition that the characteristic data has been acquired. File generation processing is executed, at which a format of a face registration file is generated and the characteristic data and image data are written into the format of this face registration file, thereby generating a single face registration file. | 12-25-2008 |
20080317296 | Method of controlling digital image processing apparatus for performing moving picture photographing mode, and digital image processing apparatus using the method - A method of controlling a digital image processing apparatus that performs a moving picture photographing mode and a reproduction mode. The method includes the operations of detecting face frames where faces of different persons exist in an operations of storing images of a series of frames in a moving picture file in the moving picture photographing mode, storing representative image frames including face frames selected from the detected face frames in the moving picture photographing mode, and displaying images of the stored representative image frames to indicate the moving picture file in the reproduction mode. The method can be performed by a controller of the digital image processing apparatus. | 12-25-2008 |
20080317297 | Computer-Based Facial Paralysis Assessment - A computer-based system is presented for grading facial paralysis, which system is adapted to be operated by a patient, including a camera system for collecting a series of images of the patient's face for analysis by a computer system, and a display which provides visual feedback to the patient so that the computer system can prompt the patient to carry out specific movements or facial exercises. This system is applicable for use in a home environment by a patient. | 12-25-2008 |
20080317298 | Digital Image Search System And Method - A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of an unknown twin using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. | 12-25-2008 |
20090003660 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION USING TRANSFORM VECTOR QUANTIZATION - An identification system uses mappings of known objects to codebooks representing those objects to identify an object represented by multiple input representations or to verify that an input representation corresponds to an input known object. To identify the object, the identification system generates an input feature vector for each input representation. The identification system then accumulates for each known object the distances between the codebook of that object and each of the input feature vectors. The distance between a codebook and a feature vector may be the minimum of the distances between the code vectors of the codebook and the feature vector. The identification system then selects the object with the smallest accumulated distance as being the object represented by the multiple input representations. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003661 | Separating a Directional Lighting Variability In Statistical Face Modelling Based On Texture Space Decomposition - A technique for determining a characteristic of a face or certain other object within a scene captured in a digital image including acquiring an image and applying a linear texture model that is constructed based on a training data set and that includes a class of objects including a first subset of model components that exhibit a dependency on directional lighting variations and a second subset of model components which are independent of directional lighting variations. A fit of the model to the face or certain other object is obtained including adjusting one or more individual values of one or more of the model components of the linear texture model. Based on the obtained fit of the model to the face or certain other object in the scene, a characteristic of the face or certain other object is determined. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003662 | Virtual reality overlay - A mobile social networking system that provides aspects of an augmented reality experience comprising a wireless infrastructure; at least one central server having a at least one database of users; a mobile scanner that scans for other users through the use of an identification mechanism, queries the server, and downloads the user profiles and displays them on an inconspicuous viewing device. An unobtrusively manipulable input device is used to select and navigate through the profiles. The invention provides a system for obtaining additional social and other information about nearby users in an unobtrusive manner to avoid detection by others. | 01-01-2009 |
20090010499 | ADVERTISING IMPACT MEASURING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an advertising impact measuring system and method counting in real time the people ( | 01-08-2009 |
20090010500 | Face Recognition Methods and Systems - Various systems and methods are provided for face recognition. In one embodiment, a method includes assigning a texton to each pixel of a filtered image to produce a texton map; determining an approximation error for each pixel of the texton map; segmenting the texton map into a plurality of sub-blocks, each sub-block associated with a plurality of pixels of the texton map; determining an average error for at least one sub-block based upon the approximation errors of the pixels associated with the at least one sub-block; determining a weight for the at least one sub-block based upon the average error; assigning the weight to the textons assigned to the pixels associated with the at least one sub-block; and producing an error encoded histogram based upon the textons and the assigned weights. | 01-08-2009 |
20090010501 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus for processing an image including an image of a face includes: a normalization unit configured to normalize the image including the image of a face so that the size of the face becomes a predetermined face size; a detection area setting unit configured to set an area smaller than the image normalized by the normalization unit as a detection area in which a position of a face part of the face is detected; and a detection unit configured to detect the position of the face part in the detection area set by the detection area setting unit. | 01-08-2009 |
20090016575 | REAL-TIME FACE RECOGNITION-BASED SELECTIVE RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Provided are a real-time face recognition-based selective recording apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a face recognition unit which recognizes a face of a person in a decompressed input image frame; a recording position setting unit which sets one of an image frame in which the person appears and a scene change start frame including the image frame as a valid recording point if the recognized face is detected for a predetermined period of time or detected a predetermined number of times, and identifies a position, which corresponds to a set image frame, in an image compression stream; and a recording unit which records the image compression stream from the identified position and storing the recorded image compression stream in real time. | 01-15-2009 |
20090016576 | Digital image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and recording medium for storing program for executing the method - A digital image processing apparatus for easily obtaining information regarding a face, a method of controlling the same, and a recording medium for storing a program for executing the method. The digital image processing apparatus includes a face recognition unit recognizing a face from an image, a face index assignment unit assigning a face index to the recognized face if the face recognized from the image is not a previously recognized face, and a relation index update unit that, if the image includes a second face, updates a relation index corresponding to the number of times the first face and second face appear together in a plurality of images. | 01-15-2009 |
20090016577 | COLLATION SYTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING THEREON PROGRAM - A collation system for selecting a registrant matched with a passer-by among a plurality of registrants registered in advance includes a photographing section for photographing the passer-by, a candidate searching section for searching a plurality of candidates for the registrant matched with the passer-by among the plurality of registrants based on a first image of the passer-by photographed by the photographing section, and a passer-by collating section for selecting the registrant matched with the passer-by among the plurality of candidates based on a second image of the passer-by photographed by the photographing section when the passer-by is closer to the photographing section than when the first image is photographed. | 01-15-2009 |
20090022373 | Dynamically Varying Classified Image Display System - A dynamically varying image display system including an electromagnetic radiation emitting display, a thematic based sorting algorithm processor, and a display processor. The electromagnetic radiation display is configured to sequentially display a plurality of thematically classified images and the thematic based sorting algorithm processor relies on various recognition systems. | 01-22-2009 |
20090028393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SAVING DIGITAL CONTENT CLASSIFIED BY PERSON-BASED CLUSTERING - A system and method of saving digital content classified by person-based clustering. The system for saving digital content classified by person-based clustering, includes a database to save a plurality of digital content classified by person-based clustering; a data structure generation unit to generate a data structure composed of a plurality of nodes using the plurality of digital content; a face recognition unit to extract a face descriptor of new digital content to be saved in the database; a cluster classification unit to classify the new digital content and the plurality of digital content by the person-based clustering using the extracted face descriptor, and a data structure update unit to update the data structure according to the classification. | 01-29-2009 |
20090028394 | Imaging device, image detecting method and focus adjusting method - An imaging device includes: an image pickup device that captures an image via an imaging optics; a focus detector that detects a focus adjustment state of the imaging optics; a face detection circuit that detects an image corresponding to a face of a person from the image captured by the image pickup device; and a controller that causes the face detection circuit to execute detection of the image corresponding to the face, according to a focus detection result of the focus detector. | 01-29-2009 |
20090034805 | Using Relevance Feedback In Face Recognition - Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and presented to the user as sorted search result images. The user may provide explicit or implicit feedback regarding the search result images. Additional feedback may be inferred regarding the search result images based on the user-provided feedback, and the results may be updated based on the user-provided and inferred feedback. | 02-05-2009 |
20090034806 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND FACE IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, a two-dimensional face thumbnail display area includes a plurality of face image display areas which are arranged in a matrix including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A plurality of time zones each having the same time length, which are obtained by dividing a total time length of the video content data by a number of the plurality of columns at equal intervals, are allocated to the plurality of columns, respectively. A face image list display process unit displays, based on time stamp information corresponding to each of the face images, face images, which belong to the time zone allocated to each column, on the same number of face image display areas of each column as the number of rows, by arranging the face images in an order of time of appearance of the face images. | 02-05-2009 |
20090041310 | VIDEO-BASED FACE RECOGNITION USING PROBABILISTIC APPEARANCE MANIFOLDS - The present invention meets these needs by providing temporal coherency to recognition systems. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a manifold recognition module to use a sequence of images for recognition. A manifold training module receives a plurality of training image sequences (e.g. from a video camera), each training image sequence including an individual in a plurality of poses, and establishes relationships between the images of a training image sequence. A probabilistic identity module receives a sequence of recognition images including a target individual for recognition, and identifies the target individual based on the relationship of training images corresponding to the recognition images. An occlusion module masks occluded portions of an individual's face to prevent distorted identifications. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041311 | Facial recognition based content blocking system - Methods and apparatus for blocking content. In one embodiment, an image is examined for pre-selected body portions. If the image contains a body portion (e.g. an image of a face larger than a pre-selected portion of the image) access is allowed. Otherwise, the content may be obscured or blocked with a translucent object either before or after an initial transmission. The image may be part of a video stream such as an instant messaging, web-cam, or video chat room session. The image may be sent or received and-may be examined with facial recognition technology. Additionally, the image may be tagged to indicate whether it contains the sub-image. In addition, the method may be incorporated in a computer program associated with a particular instant messaging program (e.g., the program is a Miranda IM add-on). Server, network, and client computers which may incorporate portions of the program are also provided. | 02-12-2009 |
20090041312 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to detect face areas from frames of an input moving image; a unit configured to identify face conditions, which vary depending on a face direction, from the face areas; a unit configured to classify the face areas based on the face conditions; a unit configured to correlate, when a moving distance of the face areas between adjacent frames is within a threshold value, the face areas in the frames as one sequence; a unit configured to create dictionaries in which the face areas classified based on the conditions are stored for respective sequences; a unit configured to calculate a degree of similarity between face areas, of the same condition, stored in dictionaries in different sequences, to connect sequences whose degree of similarity is high, and to determine that the face areas belonging to the connected sequences are of the same person. | 02-12-2009 |
20090046900 | IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus for processing an image, includes a face detector for detecting an image of a face of a subject contained in a captured image, based on image information of the captured image supplied from an imaging unit, a face feature detector for detecting a face feature contained in the face image, based on image information of the face image detected by the face detector, a normalizer for normalizing the face image detected by the face detector, based on a detected position of the face feature detected by the face feature detector and generating a normalized face image, and a face expression detector for detecting a face expression contained in the face image, based on image information of the normalized face image generated by the normalized. | 02-19-2009 |
20090046901 | PERSONAL IDENTITY VERIFICATION PROCESS AND SYSTEM - A personal identity verification process and system adopts an error correcting output code (ECOC) classifier approach. Image data representing an input facial images is processed to generate a first (ECOC) classifier output vector and image data representing a class of different training images of the face of an individual are processed to generate a set of second ECOC classifier output vectors. Authenticity of the input facial image against the class of training images is evaluated by measuring distance between the first ECOC classifier output vector and the set of second ECOC classifier output vectors using a first order Minkowski metric. | 02-19-2009 |
20090052747 | FACE FEATURE COLLATOR, FACE FEATURE COLLATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The invention provides a facial feature verification apparatus capable of synthesizing an image suitable for verification to identify a person subjected to surveillance whom surveillance staff desires to watch. The facial feature verification apparatus includes a plurality of pickup units | 02-26-2009 |
20090052748 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING A 3D REPRESENTATION OF A FACE FROM A 2D REPRESENTATION - A method and system for generating 3D images of faces from 2D images, for generating 2D images of the faces at different image conditions from the 3D images, and for recognizing a 2D image of a target face based on the generated 2D images is provided. The recognition system provides a 3D model of a face that includes a 3D image of a standard face under a standard image condition and parameters indicating variations of an individual face from the standard face. To generate the 3D image of a face, the recognition system inputs a 2D image of the face under a standard image condition. The recognition system then calculates parameters that map the points of the 2D image to the corresponding points of a 2D image of the standard face. The recognition system uses these parameters with the 3D model to generate 3D images of the face at different image conditions. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052749 | Digital Image Processing Using Face Detection Information - A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values. | 02-26-2009 |
20090052750 | Digital Image Processing Using Face Detection Information - A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values. | 02-26-2009 |
20090060287 | Physiological condition measuring device - A device is configured for one or more of communication transfer and audio/video playback. The device includes a sensing system for measuring a physiological condition through manipulation of an output of the device and analysis of a user response. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060288 | Image Classification And Information Retrieval Over Wireless Digital Networks And The Internet - A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060289 | Digital Image Search System And Method - A method and system for of identifying an unknown individual from a digital image is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the present invention allows an individual to photograph a facial image an unknown individual, transfer that facial image to a server for processing into a feature vector, and then search social networking Web sites to obtain information on the unknown individual. The Web sites comprise www.MySpace.com, www.facebook.com, www.linkedin.com, www.hi5.com, www.bebo.com, www.friendster.com, www.igoogle.com, www.netlog.com, and www.orkut.com. A method of networking is also disclosed. A method for determining unwanted individuals on a social networking website is also disclosed. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060290 | FACE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, FACE IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A face image processing apparatus selects feature points and feature for identifying a person through statistical learning. The apparatus includes input means for inputting a face image detected by arbitrary face detection means, face parts detection means for detecting the positions of face parts in several locations from the input face image, face pose estimation means for estimating face pose based on the detected positions of face parts, feature point position correcting means for correcting the position of each feature point used for identifying the person based on the result of estimation of face pose by the face pose estimation means, and face identifying means for identifying the person by calculating a feature of the input face image at each feature point after position correction is performed by the feature point position correcting means and checking the feature against a feature of a registered face. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060291 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a face detecting unit that detects a face area included in image data, a face-component detecting unit that detects a face component from the face area detected by the face detecting unit, and a line-of-sight discriminating unit that executes line-of-sight discrimination processing for a face image from which the face component is detected by the face-component detecting unit. The line-of-sight discriminating unit executes processing for discriminating whether a line of sight of the face image data from which the face component is detected is in a positive state in which a line of sight is directed in a camera direction or a negative state in which a line of sight is not directed in a camera direction according to collation processing for a line-of-sight discrimination dictionary in which learning data including classification data corresponding to the respective states are stored and input face image data. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060292 | IMAGE INPUT APPARATUS, AND IMAGE INPUT METHOD - The image input apparatus performs detection of a facial area of a person based on an input image. The image input apparatus compiles information of a position where the facial area is detected within a specified time and manages as a map. From the map, the image input apparatus specifies the area where the instability of the person facial area detection occurs, namely, the area where there is a case that the facial area is not detected among the areas where a facial area is normally to be detected. The image input apparatus controls adjustment factors of a camera so that accurate detection of the facial area is performed at the specified area. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060293 | Personal Identification Device and Personal Identification Method - A personal identification device of the present invention is provided with a registered data storage unit for storing registered data containing facial feature data for a registered user, a recognition parameter storage unit for storing recognition parameters, a image determination unit for determining whether or not the image quality of a user facial image input from an imaging device is appropriate, an adjustment unit for adjusting the settings of the imaging device or modifying the recognition parameters, in accordance with the result of determination carried out in the image determination unit, a feature extraction unit for extracting user facial feature data from a facial image, and a face recognition unit for comparing the extracted feature data with the registered data to determine whether or not the user is a registered user based on the result of comparison and the recognition parameters. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060294 | HUMAN IMAGE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - In a similar face retrieval system for retrieving an image photographing a face similar to a face detected from a retrieval query image from a retrieval target image group by using an image photographing a human face as the retrieval query image, whole image features as features representative of background information are extracted from each whole area of an each image of a retrieval target image group, to calculate a degree of similarity through comparison with each set of whole image features, and an image having a degree of similarity not lower than a certain value and having a lower retrieval result order from retrieval results. It is possible to efficiently retrieve the same person playing in different scenes by utilizing different features for a retrieval process and a filtering process. | 03-05-2009 |
20090060295 | FACE-IMAGE REGISTRATION DEVICE, FACE-IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD, FACE-IMAGE REGISTRATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A face-image registration device extracts, from a moving image which is inputted thereto, a face image showing a face of a person and registers the face image in a dictionary. The face-image registration device includes representative-face-image extracting means for extracting, from the moving image, at least one face image which satisfies a predetermined representative condition, so as to obtain a representative face image, and registration-face-image extracting means for extracting, from the moving image, at least one face image which shows the person shown in the representative face image but is not the representative face image and which satisfies a predetermined registration condition, so as to obtain a registration face image. The face-image registration device also includes face-image registration means for registering, in the dictionary, the registration face image in association with the representative face image. | 03-05-2009 |
20090067681 | Face Normalization for Recognition and Enrollment - The present invention is an iterative method for normalization of a probe image against the Eigenspace learned from a database of images. The invention is also an iterative method for normalizing the n images in a database, wherein the normalization is carried out without using a predetermined criterion. | 03-12-2009 |
20090067682 | Facial region detection device and correction method for photoprinting - Disclosed is a method for correcting a facial region detected from image data for photoprinting of improved image quality. The method includes an image data input step of inputting the image data to an image processing device; facial region detection step of extracting a skin color region from the inputted image data and detecting a planar face or a rotated planar face from a face-existing candidate region; a region division step of dividing the facial region detected in the facial region detection step; a correction step of extracting a distortion data value from the region divided in the region division step and conducting correction; and a photoprinting step of visually outputting the image data finally corrected in the correction step. Various types of distortion of the facial image is effectively corrected before it is printed by a photoprinter so that the image quality is improved. | 03-12-2009 |
20090067683 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus determines, when white balance correction is executed on an image signal of a face area detected by face detection unit, based on a first white balance correction value obtained by detecting white pixels, whether the corrected image signal of the face area is present in a second color signal area around a first color signal area indicating a flesh color. When the corrected image signal of the face area is determined to be present in the second color signal area, the image processing apparatus calculates a second white balance correction value for correcting the image signal based on a relationship between the corrected image signal of the face area and the first color signal area. | 03-12-2009 |
20090074258 | Systems and methods for facial recognition - Different colored rectangles are used to identify and categorize each of several faces in a single photograph. For example, red rectangles highlight faces which are unidentified and green rectangles highlight faces which have been identified. Alternatively identification and characterization are indicated via a mouseover block of text. The invention allows for user input to identify selected faces and to tag selected faces as not interested, e.g. color the rectangle grey. The invention has utility in many facial recognition applications. For example, in a security application green rectangles can be used to indicate faces belonging to authorized personnel and blue rectangles can be used to indicate faces belonging to known criminals while red rectangles indicate unidentified faces. In a casino application, green rectangles can be used to indicate faces belonging to valued customers while blue rectangles can be used to indicate faces of known card counters. | 03-19-2009 |
20090074259 | Automatic biometric identification based on face recognition and support vector machines - An automatic biometric identification method based on face recognition and support vector machines, includes enrolling a user to generate a user's reference template; and identifying the user based on the user's reference template, wherein generating a user's reference template includes acquiring a number of user's face images, and training a one-class support vector machine based on the user's face images only. | 03-19-2009 |
20090074260 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus determines a specific color region that includes a specific color, and a non-specific color region around which the specific color regions are present in three directions, i.e., an upper, left, and right directions, in a picture in the non-specific color regions that are not determined as including the specific color as specific regions to be subjected to predetermined image processing. | 03-19-2009 |
20090074261 | INTERACTIVE SYSTEM FOR RECOGNITION ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE STREAMS OF VIDEO - A method of identifying an object captured in a video image in a multi-camera video surveillance system is disclosed. Sets of identifying information are stored in profiles, each profile being associated with one object. The disclosed method of identifying an object includes comparing identifying information extracted from images captured by the video surveillance system to one or more stored profiles. A confidence score is calculated for each comparison and used to determine a best match between the extracted set of identifying information and an object. In one embodiment, the method is used as part of a facial recognition system incorporated into a video surveillance system. | 03-19-2009 |
20090080713 | FACE TRACKING IN A CAMERA PROCESSOR - A method operable in a digital image acquisition system having no photographic film is provided. The method comprises receiving a relatively low resolution image of a scene from an image stream, wherein the scene potentially includes one or more faces. At least one high quality face classifier is applied to the image to identify relatively large and medium sized face regions and at least one relaxed face classifier is applied to the image to identify relatively small sized face regions. A relatively high resolution image of nominally the same scene is received and at least one high quality face classifier is applied to the identified small sized face regions in the higher resolution version of said image. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080714 | Electronic Apparatus and Image Display Control Method of the Electronic Apparatus - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus extracts face images of persons from video content data and outputs timestamp information indicating time points at which each extracted face image appears in the video content data, and displays face images in each column of a plurality of face image display areas arranged in a matrix based on the time stamp information. The apparatus detects presence or absence of a face area in each frame consisting of the video content data and decides a cutout range of the detected face area. And, the apparatus adjusts a case in which the cutout range of the decided face area protrudes outside the frame. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080715 | Face imaging system for recordal and automated identity confirmation - A face imaging system for recordal and/or automated identity confirmation, including a camera unit and a camera unit controller. The camera unit includes a video camera, a rotatable mirror system for directing images of the security area into the video camera, and a ranging unit for detecting the presence of a target and for providing target range data, comprising distance, angle and width information, to the camera unit controller. The camera unit controller includes software for detecting face images of the target, tracking of detected face images, and capture of high quality face images. A communication system is provided for sending the captured face images to an external controller for face verification, face recognition and database searching. Face detection and face tracking is performed using the combination of video images and range data and the captured face images are recorded and/or made available for face recognition and searching. | 03-26-2009 |
20090080716 | IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE FOR PERFORMING IMAGE RECOGNITION INCLUDING OBJECT IDENTIFICATION ON EACH OF INPUT IMAGES - A digital camera picks up an image of an object for face authentication prior to each of, for example, continuous photographing operations, and operates as follows if performing an actual photographing process only when a face of a designated person can be recognized in the acquired image. If the face of the designated person can be recognized at an arbitrary timing and the actual photographing process is performed, the digital camera changes a plurality of recognition conditions at the arbitrary timing, thereby reducing face recognition accuracy used if the face of the designated person is recognized at a time of second and following face recognitions. By reducing the face recognition accuracy, the second and following face recognitions can be performed at high speed. Besides, since the designated person can be recognized once during the previous face recognition, similar recognition accuracy to the unchanged and unreduced recognition accuracy (without changing the face recognition conditions) can be substantially ensured. | 03-26-2009 |
20090087035 | Cartoon Face Generation - A face cartooning system is described. In one implementation, the system generates an attractive cartoon face or graphic of a user's facial image. The system extracts facial features separately and applies pixel-based techniques customized to each facial feature. The style of cartoon face achieved resembles the likeness of the user more than cartoons generated by conventional vector-based cartooning techniques. The cartoon faces thus achieved provide an attractive facial appearance and thus have wide applicability in art, gaming, and messaging applications in which a pleasing degree of realism is desirable without exaggerated comedy or caricature. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087036 | Pattern Matching Method, Pattern Matching System, and Pattern Matching Program - A variation image generation means generates a plurality of variation images having different postures, facial positions, and sizes with respect to a normalized image. A characteristic extraction means extracts a frequency characteristic from the plurality of variation images. A discriminant space projection means projects the frequency characteristic on a discriminant space having high discriminant ability that is obtained by linear discriminant analysis. A reference person comparison means performs a reference person comparison to extract a highly discriminant characteristic. A discriminant characteristic is extracted for a match image using the characteristic extraction means and the discriminant space projection means. A score computation means uses a discriminant axis obtained from a registered image, and the discriminant characteristic obtained from the match image to output a match score. A match determination means determines whether the person is the same person by comparing the match score with a threshold value. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087037 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device which stores face thumbnail indexing information including face images and time stamp information, extracting module configure to assign time zones to a video content data and to extract face images belonging to each time zone based on a time stamp information, classifying module configure to classify facial images of the same person from the extracted facial images, calculating module configure to calculate a frequency of appearance of each classified facial image, and facial image indication module configure to display a list of the facial images included in the facial image indexing information in a facial image indication in a two-dimensional display area, the facial image indication having time-zone-specific display areas in columns corresponding to the time zones, each facial image displayed in each time-zone-specific display area being displayed in a size based on the frequency of appearance. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087038 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE APPARATUSES, AND PROGRAM FOR THE APPARATUSES - An image processing apparatus includes an object-feature-information storage unit configured to store feature information of a predetermined object; an image inputting unit configured to input an image; an object detecting unit configured to detect an object contained in the input image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine an attribute of the detected object; a feature-point determining unit configured to determine, according to the determined attribute, positions of feature points to be set in the input image; and a similarity calculating unit configured to calculate, by comparing feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit to feature information at feature points set in the input image, similarity between an object corresponding to the feature information stored in the object-feature-information storage unit and the detected object. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087039 | IMAGE TAKING APPARATUS AND IMAGE TAKING METHOD - In an automatic shooting mode, a CPU of a digital camera displays on an LCD a number setting display for setting the number of people to be taken. After the number of people to be taken is set, a through image taken by the CCD is stored in a frame memory and displayed on the LCD. A face detecting section detects and counts faces contained in the through image, and outputs the number of faces as the number of detected people to a number matching section. The number matching section judges whether the set number stored in the frame memory matches the detected number input from the face detecting section. When the number matching section judges that the numbers match each other, the CPU performs an image-taking processing after AF control and AE control. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087040 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION - A pattern recognition method, applicable to input information including a plurality of regions, includes obtaining a certainty at which each region of the input information includes a pattern, selecting one or more regions having a relatively high-level certainty among the plurality of regions, and performing pattern detection processing on the selected region or regions. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087041 | PERSON AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND PERSON AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A face authentication apparatus includes a high tone image acquiring section, a tone converting section, a face characteristic extracting section and a face collation section. The high tone image acquiring section acquires a high tone image containing the face of a walker. The tone converting section converts the acquired high tone image to a low tone image by tone conversion processing which optimizes the brightness of a face area in the high tone image acquired by the high tone image acquiring section. The face characteristic extracting section executes an extraction processing for the face characteristic information based on the low tone image whose brightness is optimized by the tone converting section. Further, the face collation section executes face collation processing based on the low tone image whose brightness is optimized by the tone converting section. | 04-02-2009 |
20090087042 | Digital Image Processing Using Face Detection Information - A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values. | 04-02-2009 |
20090092293 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING POWER-SAVE MODE OF MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION - A method for determining a power-save mode of multimedia application, when a user operates a computer system through a peripheral input device, an image sensor retrieves a first image data corresponding to the user's facial feature. Next, the first image data is stored into the computer system. Then, the computer system confirms whether an input signal from the peripheral input device is received or not within a preset time. Once the preset time is reached, the image sensor is used to retrieve a second image data. Then, the computer system compares the second image data with the first image data, and if the matching rate between the second image data and the first image data falls out of a specific range, the computer system enters the power-save mode. | 04-09-2009 |
20090092294 | FACE AUTHENTICATING APPARATUS, FACE AUTHENTICATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a technique for preventing an unauthorized user from using a terminal and ensuring secure use of the terminal. | 04-09-2009 |
20090092295 | Person image retrieval apparatus - According to the present invention, face parts to be compared are set by the comparison target setting section based on the number of images of a group of search target images. Then, a retrieval target image and each image of the group of search target images is compared by the set face parts. An image with a particular correlation is determined to be a similar image and retrieved from the group of images to be compared. Thereby, it is possible to perform quick retrieval based on the number of images of the group of search target images. | 04-09-2009 |
20090097716 | CAMERA DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROMPT METHOD - The invention discloses a camera device, comprising: an image capture module for capturing image data including a user; an information processing module for obtaining human face image data from the image data, and obtaining a distance information between a human face corresponding to the human face image data and the camera device according to the human face image data; a decision module for determining whether the distance corresponding to said distance information is less than a predetermined value, and generating a prompt information while the distance corresponding to said distance information is less than a predetermined value; and a prompt output module for outputting said prompt information based on said distance information, said prompt information is configured to give a prompt to said user. The invention also discloses an information prompt method. The technical solution of the present invention can obtain and output a distance between a human face and the camera device, so as to prevent and prompt that a user is too close to a display screen, and thereby protect eyesight of the user. | 04-16-2009 |
20090097717 | Method and Apparatus for User Authentication Using Face Image - A user authentication method and apparatus using a face image are provided. The method includes transforming a face image in a normalized spatial domain into frequency-domain data, extracting valid transform coefficients from the frequency-domain data based on energy-concentrated region information, extracting a feature vector from the extracted valid transform coefficients, and performing user authentication by comparing the extracted feature vector with a previously registered feature vector. Accordingly, it is possible to perform user authentication using a face image while using a minimum data dimension, thereby improving the speed and precision thereof. | 04-16-2009 |
20090103786 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION FROM A TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE - In an apparatus and method for generating a three-dimensional representation from a two-dimensional image, a memory device stores information for processing a two-dimensional image and for generating a three-dimensional image from the two-dimensional image, a processing device processes a digital representation of an image by generating a two-dimensional image from the digital representation and by generating a three-dimensional image corresponding to the two-dimensional image, and an output device outputs a three-dimensional image and a digital signal representation of the three-dimensional image. | 04-23-2009 |
20090110244 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR DISPLAYING DATA USING DATA PAINTING OF AN ASYMMETRICAL FACIAL IMAGE - An apparatus, and an associated methodology, by which to display multi-dimensional data. Data of a plurality of dimensions is mapped onto visualization dimensions of an asymmetrical facial image. The resultant image is of characteristics permitting a viewer of the image, once displayed at a display device, to readily discern the data or changes thereto. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110245 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING AND SELECTING A DISCRETE PORTION OF A DIGITAL IMAGE FOR MANIPULATION - A system enables a user viewing a digital image rendered on a display screen to select a discrete portion of the digital image for manipulation. The system comprises the display screen and a user monitor digital camera having a field of view directed towards the user. An image control system drives rendering of the digital image on the display screen. An image analysis module determines a plurality of discrete portions of the digital image which may be subject to manipulation. A indicator module receives a sequence of images from a user monitor digital camera and repositions an indicator between the plurality of discrete portions of the digital image in accordance with motion detected from the sequence of images. Exemplary manipulations may comprise red eye removal and/or application of text tags to the digital image. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACIAL EXPRESSION CONTROL OF A USER INTERFACE - A mobile device obtains user input of message media for transmission to a remote device. The mobile device comprises a user interface including a display screen displaying information in accordance with a selected emotional indicator and an input device for obtaining the user input of the message media. A storage comprising a plurality of records, each associated with one of a plurality of predetermined emotional categories. A camera is directed towards the user for capturing an image of the user's face at a time proximate to user input of the message media. An emotional categorization module categorizes the image of the user's face to one of the plurality of predetermined emotional categories and selects the emotional indicator associated therewith as the selected emotional indicator. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110247 | IMAGING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A SCENE WHERE A PERSON APPEARS AND A DETECTING METHOD THEREOF - An imaging device for detecting a scene where a person appears, and a detecting method thereof, are provided. The imaging device compares a representative image of a person, with persons detected in the generated images, to detect scenes where the person appears. Information about the detected scene is stored, along with the generated images. A list of the detected persons is provided to a user, to enable the user to select and edit images that include the selected persons. | 04-30-2009 |
20090110248 | Face Recognition System - A face recognition system includes: an image input section that acquires a facial image of a user; a database in which a feature value of a part of a face of a registered person is stored; a facial position detection section that detects a position of a part of a face from the facial image of the user; a feature value extraction section that extracts a feature value of the part of the face; and a recognition section that recognizes the user by comparing the feature value of the part of the face which is extracted by the feature value extraction section with the feature value of the part of the face of the registered person stored in the database, in which the user selects the part of the face from which the feature value is extracted. | 04-30-2009 |
20090116702 | Image Recognition of Content - Techniques are described to employ image recognition techniques to content. In an implementation, one or more images are identified in content using a signature derived from the one or more images. Metadata associated with the content is then supplemented based on the identified one or more images. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116703 | MULTIFACTOR MULTIMEDIA BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION - A device may receive a request to authenticate a user, automatically establish a multimedia session with the user in response to receiving the request, and capture a group of biometric identifiers for the user from the multimedia session. The device may further perform a group of biometric authentication operations using the analyzed or captured biometric identifiers to obtain a group of authentication scores, determine whether the user is properly authenticated based on the group of authentication scores, and transmit a message representing the determination of whether the user is properly authenticated. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116704 | Image classification and information retrieval over wireless digital networks and the Internet - The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals or objects using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar objects or faces to the user The system features classification of images from a variety of Internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, or the matching object, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The image may be manipulated to emphasize similar characteristics between the received facial image and the matching facial image. The meta-data sent down with the image may include sponsored links and advertisements. | 05-07-2009 |
20090116705 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing program, image capturing apparatus, and controlling method thereof - An image processing apparatus includes an image converting section, a scanning controlling section, an image memory, and an object detection processing section. The image converting section converts a size of input image data. The scanning controlling section stores the size-converted image data, performs a scanning process of moving a square region having a predetermined size in the size-converted image data, and successively extracts square region image data. The image memory stores the square region image data which have been extracted by the scanning controlling section. The object detection processing section which detects an object region from the extracted square region image data. The image memory stores a plurality of entries of object candidate image data containing object regions of a plurality of object candidates. The object detection processing section performs an object determining process of determining whether or not the square region image data contain an object region. | 05-07-2009 |
20090123037 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - According to the present invention, the face of a subject person can be rapidly detected. An image input unit inputs an image to be processed. A photographing-position input unit inputs photographing-position information attached to the processed image. An angle-range information determination unit determines an angle range, where face detection should be performed to the processed image, on the basis of the information obtained by the photographing-position information input unit. On the basis of information indicating the determined angle range, under the control of a process control unit, a face detection unit performs face detection to the processed image input by the image input unit in predetermined angle increments. A face integration unit integrates all of face data detected by a basic-angle-range face detection unit into face information and then outputs the information. | 05-14-2009 |
20090129636 | Automatic Photo Orientation Detection - A method determining image orientation includes determining if an image includes an orientation tag and if the tag indicates the image is rotated +90 or −90 degrees. When the image does not include the tag or the tag does not indicates the image is rotated, the method includes determining if a face is detected in the original image and displaying the original image when a face is detected. When a face is not detected, the method includes rotating the image +90 and −90 degrees and detecting a face in the rotated images. When a face is not detected, the method includes applying a classifier to determine the image's proper orientation. When a face is detected in one rotated image, the method includes displaying the rotated image. When a face is detected in both rotated images, the method includes applying the classifier to determine the image's proper orientation. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129637 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD - Pseudo three dimensional image data sets are generated by an imaging apparatus, such as a digital camera having face detecting functions, by a simple operation. Reference image data sets, which are employed to generate pseudo three dimensional images, are generated from first image data sets, which are recorded. When new faces are detected by a face detecting section, correlative values between through the lens image data sets that include the new faces and the reference image data sets are calculated. When the calculated correlative values are greater that a predetermined value, pseudo three dimensional images are generated from the recorded first image data sets and newly obtained second image data sets that include the new faces. | 05-21-2009 |
20090129638 | Method of providing automatic sorting packing service sorting photo images according to characters in photo images and kiosk providing the automatic sorting packing service - A method of providing an automatic sorting packing service sorting photo images according to characters contained therein and a kiosk providing the automatic sorting packing service sorting according to characters are provided. The method includes: extracting a characteristic of each character from a face area of each photo image for which printing has been requested; and determining whether a detected character is a new character by comparing the extracted characteristic with a characteristic stored in a database. If the detected character is determined to be a new character, the extracted characteristic is stored in the database, a new packing line is allocated to the detected character, and a corresponding photo image is added to the allocated packing line. If the detected character is determined to be a character that has previously been recorded in the database, the corresponding photo image is added to the packing line of the detected character. | 05-21-2009 |
20090136095 | Method for Recognition Between a First Object and a Second Object Each Represented by Images - A recognition method for recognition between a first and second object represented by at least one first image and at least one second image, includes: defining a plurality of rectangular assemblies of random pixels; filtering the first image with first n filters obtained from the assemblies of pixels to obtain n first filtered matrices; classifying the n first filtered matrices by providing a first centre and a first radius within a space of N dimensions; filtering the second image with the first n filters to obtain n second filtered matrices; classifying the n second filtered matrices by providing a second centre within the space of N dimensions; comparing the first centre and first radius with the second centre; whereby recognition between the object and second object has if at least one second centre lies at a distance from the first centre which is less than or equal to at least one first radius. | 05-28-2009 |
20090141947 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PERSON IDENTIFICATION BY FACIAL IMAGE - A method to recognize a facial image is described. An input facial image is normalized by scaling and rotation angle using methods of eye pupil centers detection. The input facial image is further normalized by lighting intensity. Template images are obtained either by the processing of certain images taken from different face positions, or by a preliminary reconstruction of a 3D face model based on stereo-pair images. Using the 3D model template, facial images are generated at different rotation angles. Distances between the input facial image and the template image are calculated from the Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) features, defined by overlapped blocks of these images. The facial image is recognized based on these distances. | 06-04-2009 |
20090141948 | PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE - An objective of the present invention is to provide a portable information terminal device capable of exclusively storing information which is useful to identify an illegal user. | 06-04-2009 |
20090141949 | Method and apparatus for recognizing a plural number of faces, and method and apparatus for registering face, and an image capturing method and system - Provided are a method and apparatus for recognizing a plurality of faces. In the method, a plurality of faces are detected from received video frames, the detected faces are sequentially recognized in predetermined frames that fall within a predetermined recognition period from among the detected frames, and then, the recognized faces are sequentially displayed. Accordingly, the amount of calculation is less than when simultaneously performing face detection and recognition on each frame. | 06-04-2009 |
20090141950 | Method, system, and computer-readable recording medium for recognizing face of person included in digital data by using feature data - A face recognition method includes the step of: receiving feature data acquired by detecting each part of a face of a person included in digital data from a terminal at a server; comparing the feature data received from the terminal with those of persons determined as accessible among all feature data recorded in a feature data database based on face recognition technology, and deciding top n persons with top n degree of similarities among all persons recorded in the feature data database at the server, wherein the feature data recorded in the feature data database include feature data of each part of faces of the persons; and providing the information on the top n persons to the terminal. It may reduce work capacity and processing time by extracting and transmitting to the server feature data of each part of the face such as eyes, nose, mouth, ears and jaws. | 06-04-2009 |
20090148006 | Control device, image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and recording medium - A control device of the present invention includes: a face position detecting section for detecting a position of a user's face in an image captured by a capturing device; a face recognition processing section for checking a partial image against reference face images, the partial image being at the position detected in the captured image, and extracting a reference face image that matches the face in the partial image; a user authentication section for specifying a user name that corresponds to the extracted reference face image; and a data checking section for (i) checking whether or not a multifunction printer receives print data added with the specified user name, and (ii) if it is confirmed that the multifunction printer receives the print data, operating an image forming section of the multifunction printer to form an image based on the print data. This realizes a control device which (i) authenticates a user in an easy way in which impersonation can be prevented without inconvenient operation, and (ii) prevents another user from accidentally viewing a printed matter. | 06-11-2009 |
20090169065 | Detecting and indexing characters of videos by NCuts and page ranking - Apparatuses, systems, and computer program products that detect and/or index characters of videos are disclosed. One or more embodiments comprise an apparatus an apparatus having a feature extraction module and a cast indexing module. The feature extraction module may extract features of a scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) for face sets of a video and the cast indexing module may detect one or more characters of the video via one or more associations of clusters of the features. Some alternative embodiments may include a cast ranking module to sort characters of the video, considering such factors as appearance times of the characters, appearance frequencies of the characters, and page rankings of the characters. The apparatus may associate or partition the clusters based on a normalized cut process, as well as detect the characters based on measures of distances of nodes associated with the features. Numerous embodiments may detect the characters based upon partitioning the clusters via solutions for eigenvalue systems for matrices of nodes of the clusters. | 07-02-2009 |
20090169066 | MULTIDIRECTONAL FACE DETECTION METHOD - A multidirectional face detection method is used to detect a face in a picture under detection at different positions. The face detection method includes the steps. A selecting window sets to sequentially select different sub-image patterns from the picture under detection. A facial weight calculates and it is calculated according to a feature value of the pixels in a sub-image pattern selected by the selecting window, thereby determining if the sub-image pattern has any features similar to the face. A facial edge weight calculates for made on the picture under detection according to a boundary value of the pixels in the sub-image pattern selected by the selecting window, so as to determine if the part of area of the picture under detection has any facial-boundaries. A profile detection performs to respectively mark the facial-boundaries in the sub-image patterns with a arc segments respectively for the sub-image patterns having the facial-boundaries. | 07-02-2009 |
20090169067 | FACE DETECTION AND TRACKING METHOD - Face detection and tracking method is executed by a computer or a microprocessor with computing capability for identifying human faces and positions thereof in image frames. First, face detection is performed to detect human faces in a plurality of frames. Then, face tracking is performed on each of the frames to track the detected human faces and record positions of these human faces. Afterward, face detection on the image frames is again performed every few frames, skipping the positions of the human faces that have been recorded, so as to quickly search for other human faces that might be newly added. | 07-02-2009 |
20090169068 | DETECTING DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM AND SYSTEM - In a detecting device for detecting a fake test of Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) that another testee different from an actual driver takes on behalf of the actual driver of a vehicle using an alcohol measurement device, the face image of the testee taking the BAC test is shot during measurement of the BAC and the face image of the driver of the vehicle is shot within a predetermined period of time before or after the measurement of the BAC. The testee and the driver are checked whether they are the same person based on the face images of the testee and the driver. | 07-02-2009 |
20090175508 | Methods and Apparatus for Generation Of Cancelable Face Template - Techniques for generating a distorted template for a given facial image are provided. First, at least one facial feature point from a given facial image is selected. The selected facial feature has location information associated therewith. A representation of a region proximate to the selected facial feature point is then generated. Next, the location information associated with the selected facial feature point and/or the representation of the region proximate to the selected facial feature point are distorted. A distorted template is then formed, wherein the distorted template comprises the distorted location information associated with the selected facial feature point and/or the distorted representation of the region proximate to the selected facial feature point. | 07-09-2009 |
20090175509 | Personal computing device control using face detection and recognition - Systems and methods are provided for control of a personal computing device based on user face detection and recognition techniques. | 07-09-2009 |
20090175510 | Digital Life Recorder Implementing Enhanced Facial Recognition Subsystem for Acquiring a Face Glossary Data - A method and apparatus for updating a face glossary repository with face glossary data. The process identifies a source of the face glossary data in response to detecting an acquisition condition. The source may comprise a raw data queue, a first glossary from a peer digital life recorder, or a second glossary from a remote repository. The process retrieves the face glossary data from the source and stores the face glossary data from the source into the face glossary repository. The face glossary repository may include a face glossary cache and a face glossary database. | 07-09-2009 |
20090175511 | Digital photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same - A digital photographing apparatus is provided which can recognize a face even in a dark place, such as under a backlight condition, or in too bright a place, and also provided is a method of controlling the same. According to the method, when a face is not recognized, an exposure value is temporarily adjusted so as to generate an image signal, and a face recognition algorithm is performed from the image signal. | 07-09-2009 |
20090175512 | FACE COLLATION APPARATUS - A face collation apparatus has a storage that stores a feature quantity of at least one registrant, the feature quantity being extracted from a registration image of the registrant, a feature quantity extractor that extracts a feature quantity from a collation image of a collation object person, a score calculator that calculates a score indicating an analogy degree between the feature quantity of the registrant and the feature quantity of the collation object person, a score adjuster that adjusts the score using a score adjustment parameter so that any one of a stranger acceptance rate indicating a probability that a stranger is accepted at the time of collation, a principal rejection rate indicating a probability that a principal is rejected at the time of collation, and an equal error rate, which is a probability that the stranger acceptance rate and the principal rejection rate are equal, becomes substantially constant regardless of a registration condition and/or a collation condition, and a determination unit that determines whether the collation object person is the registrant by comparing the adjusted score and a predetermined threshold. | 07-09-2009 |
20090180673 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING FACE RECOGNITION ABILITIES IN A USER - A method for enhancing face recognition abilities in a user. The method in one embodiment includes the steps of generating a first plurality of faces, each face differing from other faces in at least one aspect; displaying each of the faces to the user; and perceptually discriminating by the user, each of the displayed faces in response to the at least one aspect. In another aspect the invention relates to an apparatus for enhancing face recognition abilities in a user. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a system for generating a first plurality of faces, each face differing from other faces in at least one aspect; a display for displaying each of the faces to the user; and a device for recording the perceptually discriminating, by the user, each of the displayed faces in response to the at least one aspect. | 07-16-2009 |
20090185723 | ENABLING PERSISTENT RECOGNITION OF INDIVIDUALS IN IMAGES - A method and system for accumulating and using images of individuals, and associated image-derived data, on an continuous basis to create recognition models that facilitate ongoing recognition of individuals in images or photo collections. | 07-23-2009 |
20090190803 | DETECTING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS IN DIGITAL IMAGES - A method and system for detecting facial expressions in digital images and applications therefore are disclosed. Analysis of a digital image determines whether or not a smile and/or blink is present on a person's face. Face recognition, and/or a pose or illumination condition determination, permits application of a specific, relatively small classifier cascade. | 07-30-2009 |
20090190804 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a storage device stores a plurality of reference face images and a plurality of human names corresponding to the reference face images respectively. A face image extraction module extracts a plurality of face images from the moving image data to be processed. A matching processing module compares each of the extracted face images with the plurality of reference face images, and specifies a reference face image that appears within the moving image data to be processed. An association module associates human names corresponding to the specified reference face images, with the moving image data to be processed. A search module searches moving image data associated with the human names input by a user, from a plurality of moving image data to be searched. | 07-30-2009 |
20090196464 | Continuous face recognition with online learning - System and method of face classification. A system ( | 08-06-2009 |
20090196465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE SOURCE OF MEDIA CONTENT WITH APPLICATION TO BUSINESS RULES - A system and method for protecting copyright in content distributed online, in combination with specified business rules. A portion of content presented for upload on a network is analyzed to detect an image associated with a content owner; the image is compared with reference images to identify the content owner; and business rules are applied to control unauthorized uploading of the content. The identifier may be a logo included in the content as a digital graphic, or a non-visual marker. Analysis is advantageously performed on a sample of video frames or a segment of preselected length. If the content is found to be copyrighted, and the attempted upload is unauthorized, uploading may or may not be permitted, and the user may or may not be charged a fee for subsequent access to the content. | 08-06-2009 |
20090196466 | Face Detection in Mid-Shot Digital Images - A method for detecting a face in a mid-shot digital image of a person comprises capturing first and second mid-shot digital images of nominally the same scene using different capture settings such that the foreground is differently differentiated from the background in each image, and comparing the first and second images to determine the foreground region of the images. A portion of the foreground region likely to correspond to a face is estimated based upon the geometry of the foreground region. | 08-06-2009 |
20090196467 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold, for each combination of a first angle indicating a face direction of a first face image which includes a human face and a second angle indicating a face direction of a second face image which includes a human face, a learning dictionary including information related to positions of feature points associating the first and second face images when a similarity degree between the first and second face images is estimated, a selection unit configured to select the learning dictionary held for each combination in accordance with the combination of the first and second angles, and a similarity degree estimation unit configured to estimate a facial similarity degree between the first and second face images on the basis of feature amounts extracted from the face images corresponding to the positions of the feature points included in the selected learning dictionary. | 08-06-2009 |
20090202114 | Live-Action Image Capture - A computer-implemented video capture process includes identifying and tracking a face in a plurality of real-time video frames on a first computing device, generating first face data representative of the identified and tracked face, and transmitting the first face data to a second computing device over a network for display of the face on an avatar body by the second computing device. | 08-13-2009 |
20090208068 | IMAGING APPARATUS WITH IMAGE TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION FUNCTION - A person previously records his or her face data in a face data storage unit. When a face recognizing unit recognizes that another person is shown in image data captured by an imaging unit, the image data is transmitted from an image transmitting/receiving unit to another camera. A receiver's camera, only when a face recognizing unit recognizes that the receiver himself or herself is shown in the image data received by an image transmitting/receiving unit, records the image data into a storage unit. | 08-20-2009 |
20090214087 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM USING A WEBCAM FOR PROTECING DIGITAL DATA - A method and computer system for digital data protection by using a webcam, comprising: generating a user's biometric feature image; comparing the biometric feature image with identification data; concealing specific data in the computer when the biometric feature image does not conform to the identification data. | 08-27-2009 |
20090220127 | COVARIANCE BASED FACE ASSOCIATION - A system and method are provided for associating faces to determine whether the faces are similar. For example a captured face may be associated with known faces to determine which known face the captured most closely resembles. The system and method incorporate the use of Gabor filters applied to masked face images to develop covariance matrixes. The covariance matrixes are subject to a similarity measure to determine the similarity of the images. | 09-03-2009 |
20090220128 | AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM - An authentication apparatus for authenticating an authentication target of a user's face includes: a display configured to display an image to authentication target; a camera arranged in the vicinity of the display to take an image of the authentication target; an assist unit configured to output a guide image instructing a user a direction in which to turn in accordance with an attribute of the authenticating; and an image synthesis unit configured to synthesize the image taken by the camera and the guide image output from the assist unit to display a synthesized image on the display. | 09-03-2009 |
20090226047 | Apparatus and Method of Processing Image and Human Face Detection System using the smae - An image processing apparatus includes a first register, a second register and an adder. The second register reads a number of pixels from a sub-window image in turn. The adder adds the pixels in the second register and stored values in the first register to output a number of adding calculation values. The adding calculation values are returned to the first register and are saved as stored values. In addition, the present invention relates to an image processing method and a human face detection system using the above image processing apparatus. | 09-10-2009 |
20090226048 | Biometric authentication apparatus - A disclosed biometric authentication apparatus includes an authentication data input unit configured to acquire a piece of authentication data from a biological object; an authentication data process unit configured to accumulate one or more pieces of authentication data acquired from the start to end of authentication; a matching unit configured to successively match the pieces of authentication data against reference data, and complete the authentication when at least one of the pieces of authentication data has a degree of similarity reaching or exceeding a predetermined authentication threshold; and a reference data registration process unit configured to, in response to a detection that the authentication has completed after a predetermined period elapsed from the start of the authentication process, make an additional registration in which, among the pieces of authentication data, one piece whose degree of similarity reaches or exceeds a predetermined recognition threshold is additionally registered to the reference data. | 09-10-2009 |
20090232363 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: face detecting means for detecting the orientation of a face in a face image; weight distribution generating means for generating a weight distribution based on a statistical distribution of the position of a predetermined feature of the face in the face image according to the orientation of the face; first calculation means for calculating a first evaluation value for evaluating each of predetermined regions of the face image to determine whether the region is the predetermined feature of the face; and face feature identifying means for identifying the predetermined region as the predetermined feature of the face based on the first evaluation value and the weight distribution. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232364 | PRIORITY TARGET DETERMINING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, PRIORITY TARGET DETERMINING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A priority target determining device for determining a preferential face image from a plurality of face images contained in a plurality of original images has a face detecting portion for detecting a face image and positional information from the plurality of original images, a face checking portion for checking a feature of the face image detected by the face detecting portion with a feature of the face image detected in the past, and a determining portion for determining the face images as the preferential face image when number of face images in which the features match reaches a predetermined number as a result of the check by the face checking portion. If the position of the face image detected by the face detecting portion is outside a region set in the original image, the face detecting portion does not send the face image, the face checking portion does not execute the check related to the face image, or the determining portion excludes the number of face image from the number of face images. | 09-17-2009 |
20090232365 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FACE RECOGNITION - A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for automatically recognizing a human face, which are adapted to: retrieve an image of the face; extract a number of feature patches from the image of the face; calculate a feature value for each feature patch, as a function of an image-derivate of the respective feature patch; and comparing the feature values with corresponding feature values of a number of feature patches of a reference image stored in an image database, for determining a recognition of the human face. | 09-17-2009 |
20090238419 | FACE RECOGNITION TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A device is trained for face recognition. A first acquired digital image of a scene includes a face. Face image data is extracted and stored in a face image library along with an unique identifier. A second acquired digital image may or may not include the face of the same person as the face in the first acquired digital image. Face recognition is applied to extracted face data of the second digital image, and the face of the first digital image is displayed as a match to the face of the second digital image when the first and second images are determined to match or the second digital image or a face therein is identified with biometric data stored along with the first digital image when the faces in the first and second images are determined to match. | 09-24-2009 |
20090252383 | Method and Apparatus to Incorporate Automatic Face Recognition in Digital Image Collections - A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection. In addition, the naming tool may include a graphical user interface, a face detection module that detects faces in images of the digital image collection and stores data pertaining to the detected faces in the facial image database, a face recognition module that computes at least one facial recognition template for each facial image in the facial image database, and a similarity grouping module that groups facial images in the facial image database according to the respective templates such that similar facial images belong to one similarity group. | 10-08-2009 |
20090257625 | METHODS INVOLVING FACE MODEL FITTING - A method for face model fitting comprising, receiving a first observed image, receiving a second observed image, and fitting an active appearance model of a third image to the second observed image and the first observed image with an algorithm that includes a first function of a mean-square-error between a warped image of the second observed image and a synthesis of the active appearance model and a second function of a mean-square-error between the warped image of the second observed image and an appearance data of the first observed image. | 10-15-2009 |
20090262987 | Automatic face detection and identity masking in images, and applications thereof - A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262988 | WHAT YOU WILL LOOK LIKE IN 10 YEARS - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that create virtual images that predict the physical appearance of an individual. The system can include mechanisms that develop a virtual image based on a health record, input received from sensors or images supplied by the individual. The system thereafter progressively modifies and displays the virtual image to reflect characteristics associated with the images supplied by the individual. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262989 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit, a feature point extraction unit which extracts a plurality of feature points from an input image, a three-dimensional model storage unit which stores a three-dimensional model and reference feature point coordinates on the three-dimensional model, a target area setting unit which sets target areas from the three-dimensional model, a correspondence relationship calculation unit which, using the extracted feature points and reference feature points belonging to the target areas, estimates a correspondence relationship between the input image and the target areas, and a three-dimensional model integration unit which integrates target areas related to the image. | 10-22-2009 |
20090285454 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION TRAINING OF USERS OF ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS - An entertainment system that includes an image capture device which captures images of new users and mathematically processes the images so that a matrix of representative images of all known users if formed. The matrix can then be applied to subsequent new images to determine whether a new image of a user is a known user to the system to that preferences associated with the user can be employed in the delivery of entertainment content to the user. | 11-19-2009 |
20090285455 | Method for detecting facial expression and repairing smile face of portrait photo - A method for detecting a facial expression and repairing a smile face of a portrait photo includes the steps of: detecting a location and a range of a mouth region in an inputted portrait photo; capturing a patch in the mouth region and a predetermined peripheral range thereof; executing a comparison process to a smile state or a stiff state of the mouth region in the patch by a mouth state classifier; executing a calculation process to a repaired region of the mouth region when the mouth region is determined to be in the stiff state, in order to calculate a location of a plurality of feature points in the repaired region of the mouth region; and executing an image warping process to the location of the feature points and adjacent pixels thereof, for generating a portrait photo showing a smile state. | 11-19-2009 |
20090285456 | Method and system for measuring human response to visual stimulus based on changes in facial expression - The present invention is a method and system for measuring human emotional response to visual stimulus, based on the person's facial expressions. Given a detected and tracked human face, it is accurately localized so that the facial features are correctly identified and localized. Face and facial features are localized using the geometrically specialized learning machines. Then the emotion-sensitive features, such as the shapes of the facial features or facial wrinkles, are extracted. The facial muscle actions are estimated using a learning machine trained on the emotion-sensitive features. The instantaneous facial muscle actions are projected to a point in affect space, using the relation between the facial muscle actions and the affective state (arousal, valence, and stance). The series of estimated emotional changes renders a trajectory in affect space, which is further analyzed in relation to the temporal changes in visual stimulus, to determine the response. | 11-19-2009 |
20090285457 | Detection of Organ Area Corresponding to Facial Organ Image in Image - An image processing apparatus. A face area detecting unit detects a face area corresponding to a face image in a target image. A detection condition setting unit sets a detection condition for specifying a range of at least one of the number, sizes and positions of organ areas to be detected upon detection of the organ area corresponding to a facial organ image in the face area on the basis of a detection result of the face area. An organ area detecting unit detects the organ area satisfying the set detection condition. | 11-19-2009 |
20090304238 | IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - An imaging apparatus is provided including an imaging unit configured to obtain image data, a display unit, and a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses. The imaging apparatus further includes a storing unit configured to store person identification information including at least face image data while associating the person recognition information with information relating to the external apparatuses, a collation unit configured to collate a target in the image data with the person identification information, a detection unit configured to detect an external apparatus that is communicating with the imaging apparatus, and a display control unit configured to display a plurality of pieces of face image data on the display unit each as a candidate of a transmission destination of the image data in an order based on a result of collation by the collation unit and a result of detection by the detection unit. | 12-10-2009 |
20090304239 | IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND IDENTIFICATION IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD - It is an object of an identification apparatus of the present invention to realize a face identification in such a way that a system user does not worry that other people take a glance at a user's own face image when the user gets the face image for use in face identification. An identification apparatus of the present invention includes a capturing device | 12-10-2009 |
20090310828 | AN AUTOMATED METHOD FOR HUMAN FACE MODELING AND RELIGHTING WITH APPLICATION TO FACE RECOGNITION - A novel method and system for 3d-aided-2D face recognition under large pose and illumination variations is disclosed. The method and system includes enrolling a face of a subject into a gallery database using raw 3D data. The method also includes verifying and/or identifying a target face form data produced by a 2D imagining or scanning device. A statistically derived annotated face model is fitted using a subdivision-based deformable model framework to the raw 3D data. The annotated face model is capable of being smoothly deformed into any face so it acts as a universal facial template. During authentication or identification, only a single 2D image is required. The subject specific fitted annotated face model from the gallery is used to lift a texture of a face from a 2D probe image, and a bidirectional relighting algorithm is employed to change the illumination of the gallery texture to match that of the probe. Then, the relit texture is compared to the gallery texture using a view-dependent complex wavelet structural similarity index metric. | 12-17-2009 |
20090310829 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing method for calculating feature amounts of a facial part in a face on the basis of a plurality of image data obtained in chronological order, comparing the calculated feature amounts with a threshold value, and recognizing the facial part, includes: calculating face orientations on the basis of image data; storing, in a storage, the feature amounts calculated from the image data, the feature amounts being associated with the face orientations; and recognizing a facial part in different image data of the face other than the plurality of the image data on the basis of a feature amount calculated from the different image data, the feature amounts stored in the storage associated with the face orientation in the different image data, and a threshold. | 12-17-2009 |
20090316961 | METHOD FOR TAGGING IMAGE CONTENT - A computer based method for facilitating tagging of an input image is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input image which has a content including at least a facial image or a plurality of facial images. From this input image, facial recognition techniques are used to identify where in the image the faces are located. When a facial image is detected, the facial image may be displayed to the user as an individual facial image which substantially consists of a face. This display helps facilitate tagging of the individual facial image and also tagging of the input image. A user may input a tag for the individual facial image and the input image. Also, a user may be presented with contact information which is likely to include a name of a person which can be selected as a tag for the individual facial image and/or also the input image. | 12-24-2009 |
20090316962 | Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, and Program - An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person. | 12-24-2009 |
20090324022 | Method and Apparatus for Tagging Images and Providing Notifications When Images are Tagged - An image tagging and notification system provides notifications to a user when an image is tagged with personal information of the user. The image tagging and notification system comprises a tag generator to generate tags using facial recognition techniques and a notification unit to generate and send a notification to a user when a image is tagged with the personal information of the user. | 12-31-2009 |
20090324023 | Combined Face Detection and Background Registration - Techniques are provided to analyze video frames of a video signal in order to distinguish regions containing a face (and body torso) from regions that contain a relatively static background. The region containing the face is referred to as a foreground region. A current video frame is divided into a plurality of elements and the foreground regions and background regions are detected. The background regions of a subsequent video frame are detected/registered using the foreground regions of the current video frame. The foreground regions of the subsequent video frame are determined using the background regions of the current video frame as a temporal reference. | 12-31-2009 |
20090324024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING POSTURE - A system and method are provided for monitoring the posture of a user of the system, for example a user sitting at a computing device. A camera device is used for periodically capturing an image of a user; and for each captured image: a previously determined face detection model is applied to the image to detect a face of a user in the image; the detected face is compared to a previously determined good posture face to detect an instance of good posture; and a good posture message is generated to a user after a number of instances of good posture are detected. | 12-31-2009 |
20100008547 | Method and System for Automated Annotation of Persons in Video Content - Methods and systems for automated annotation of persons in video content are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of identifying faces in a video includes the stages of: generating face tracks from input video streams; selecting key face images for each face track; clustering the face tracks to generate face clusters; creating face models from the face clusters; and correlating face models with a face model database. In another embodiment, a system for identifying faces in a video includes a face model database having face entries with face models and corresponding names, and a video face identifier module. In yet another embodiment, the system for identifying faces in a video can also have a face model generator. | 01-14-2010 |
20100008548 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - A large-size face is immediately detected from a subject image. An image processing circuit of an imaging device detects a human face from a subject image and performs AWB, AE, and AF. The image processing circuit has processing for detecting a relatively-large-size face, processing for detecting a relatively-medium-size face, and processing for detecting a relatively-small-size face. When detecting a face, the image processing circuit first repeats, a plurality of times, processing for detecting a relatively-large-size face and outputting a detection result; performs processing for detecting a relatively-medium-size face and outputting a detection result; repeats, a plurality of times, processing for detecting a relatively-large-size face and outputting a detection result; and subsequently performs processing for detecting a relatively-small-size face and outputting a detection result. | 01-14-2010 |
20100008549 | Increasing Face Detection Speed - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with increasing face detection speed are described. One example method includes determining whether to control a face detection process to selectively perform a face detection in a patch in a digital image. The face detection may be based, at least in part, on determining whether the patch overlaps a face previously identified by the face detection process. The example method may also include providing a signal to control the face detection process to perform the face detection upon determining that a patch overlap does not exceed an overlap factor. | 01-14-2010 |
20100008550 | Method and apparatus for facial identification - Aspects of the disclosure can provide a face recognition method of increased robustness. The face recognition method can include receiving a target face image, initializing a registration and a block analysis of the target face image identifying one or more portions of the target face image for face recognition, informing a user of the registration and the block analysis, receiving one or more instructions from the user for operating on the registration and the block analysis, and identifying the target face image from a plurality of face images based on the registration and the block analysis of the target face image when the registration and the block analysis are approved by the user. | 01-14-2010 |
20100014719 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a storage apparatus and method, a program, and a playback apparatus and method, capable of quickly reading a specific part of data among metadata including metadata associated with faces. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014720 | Fraud Resistant Biometric Financial Transaction System and Method - A method and system for authenticating financial transactions is disclosed wherein biometric data is acquired from a person and the probability of liveness of the person and probability of a match between the person or token and known biometric or token information are calculated, preferably according to a formula D=P(p)*(K+P(m)), wherein K is a number between 0.1 and 100, and authenticating if the value of D exceeds a predetermined value. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014721 | Classification System for Consumer Digital Images using Automatic Workflow and Face Detection and Recognition - A processor-based system operating according to digitally-embedded programming instructions includes a face detection module for identifying face regions within digital images. A normalization module generates a normalized version of the face region. A face recognition module automatically extracts a set of face classifier parameter values from the normalized face region that are referred to as a faceprint. A workflow module automatically compares the extracted faceprint to a database of archived faceprints previously determined to correspond to known identities. The workflow module determines based on the comparing whether the new faceprint corresponds to any of the known identities, and associates the new faceprint and normalized face region with a new or known identity within a database. A database module serves to archive data corresponding to the new faceprint and its associated parent image according to the associating by the workflow module within one or more digital data storage media. | 01-21-2010 |
20100021018 | Face feature extraction apparatus and method - A face feature extraction apparatus and method are provided. The face feature extraction apparatus for used in a two-dimensional (2D) face identification system includes: a local base vector generator generating a plurality of local base vectors to extract features of portions of a face from input 2D face image data of users; a local base vector selector selecting a predetermined number of local base vectors suitable for the face identification from the plurality of local base vectors generated by the local base vector generator; and a local base vector overlapper overlapping the local base vectors selected by the local base vector selector and generating a smaller number of overlapped local base vectors than the selected local base vectors. Thus, 2D face identification system having high face identification rate can be provided. | 01-28-2010 |
20100021019 | AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD WITH FACE RECOGNITION - An automatic photographing method with face recognition is applied in a camera having a detecting lens and a photographing lens for a user to photograph a target. First, detect a face of the user through the detecting lens, and obtain a plurality of face images of the detected face. Then, capture an image variance of the obtained face images, and photograph the target through a photographing lens when the captured image variance exceeds a photographing starting value. Therefore, during the whole photographing process, photographing can be achieved through determining variations of the face images of the user without pressing the shutter key of the camera, thereby completely preventing handshakes resulted from the pressing action, and thus improving the photographing quality. | 01-28-2010 |
20100021020 | TRANSACTION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A transaction processing apparatus includes a display unit, a base unit, and an attaching and detaching unit that connects circuits of the display unit and the base unit. The display unit includes an authentication-information acquiring unit that acquires, in a state in which the display unit is detached from the base unit, identity authentication information of a customer and an authentication-information storing unit that stores the acquired identity authentication information. The base unit includes a registered-information acquiring unit that acquires registered authentication information that should be compared with the identity authentication information, an identity authentication unit that performs identity authentication on the basis of the identity authentication information stored by the authentication-information storing unit and the registered authentication information acquired by the registered-information acquiring unit, and a card-settlement permitting unit that permits card settlement when a result of the identity authentication is affirmative. | 01-28-2010 |
20100021021 | Digital Image Search System And Method - A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of an unknown twin using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. | 01-28-2010 |
20100027853 | IMAGE ENCRYPTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ENCRYPTING IMAGE OF AT LEAST PARTIALLY NUDE PERSON AND DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE HAVING SAME - An encryption method includes: recognizing any face included in an image; analyzing color(s) of the recognized face(s) and thereby determining skin-color(s) of person(s) included in the image; determining a skin-area using the determined skin-color(s); calculating a ratio of the area of the recognized face(s) to the determined skin-area, and determining whether the image required to be encrypted based upon the calculated ratio; and encrypting the image in response to the inputs of a user if the image is required to be encrypted. | 02-04-2010 |
20100034432 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, MACHINE READABLE MEDIUM STORING THEREON AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM, CERTIFICATE PHOTOGRAPH TAKING APPARATUS, AND CERTIFICATE PHOTOGRAPH TAKING METHOD - A face image in which a user's face turns to a direction different from the front is picked up clearly and individual authentication is executed more precisely. An authentication system for executing authentication of a user is provided, wherein the authentication system comprises a first image pickup unit for picking up a face image of the user; a second image pickup unit for picking up a face image of the user from a direction different from that of the first image pickup unit, a direction calculation unit for acquiring a direction to which the user's face turns on the basis of the face images picked up by the first and the second image pickup units, and a selection unit for selecting at least one of the face images picked up by the first and second image pickup units on the basis of the direction to which the user's face turns. | 02-11-2010 |
20100034433 | Method of Validating a Biometric Capture, Notably a Body Print - The invention relates to a method for validating a biometrical acquisition, mainly the acquisition of a body imprint of a body area such as fingerprints or a face imprint, wherein the method involves together with the biometric acquisition: lighting the body area using at least one radiation having at least two respective different wavelengths between approximately 500 nm and 1150 nm; taking at least two reflectometry measurements concerning said and at least two wavelengths for measuring the reflection index of the tissues for these wavelengths; calculating the ratio for two measured indices; and comparing the ratio with a range of reference values characterizing a haemoglobin-containing living tissue in terms of proportions of oxygenated and non-oxygenated forms characteristic of the living states for the wavelengths in question; if the ratio is included in said range, the body area is considered as living and the biometrical acquisition is validated; and conversely, if the body area is considered as not living, the biometrical acquisition cannot be validated. | 02-11-2010 |
20100040262 | Dot templates for object detection in images - Dot templates are used for detecting objects within images. A computer-implemented method is performed for each of a number of dot templates corresponding to the object to be detected within an image. Each dot template is defined as a collection of points. At each position within the image, a value of the image is determined at each point of the dot template. The dot template is effectively overlaid at the given position within the image. A score of the dot template at this position is determined, based on the values of the image determined at the points of the dot template. Where the score is greater than a predetermined threshold, it can be concluded that the object is at least potentially located within the image at the position in question at which the dot template has been effectively overlaid. | 02-18-2010 |
20100054549 | Digital Image Processing Using Face Detection Information - A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values. | 03-04-2010 |
20100054550 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a subject information storage unit configured to store feature quantities and attributes relating to a plurality of subjects; a subject detecting unit configured to detect a subject included in an image; an attribute determining unit configured to determine the attributes of the detected subject; a feature quantity extracting unit configured to extract a feature quantity relating to the detected subject; and a similarity calculating unit configured to select one or a plurality of feature quantities from feature quantities relating to a plurality of subjects stored in the subject information storage unit based on the determined attributes to calculate similarity between a subject according to the selected feature quantities, and the detected subject, based on the selected feature quantities and the extracted feature quantity. | 03-04-2010 |
20100067749 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus comprises an image processing unit configured to execute image processing which involves a change in a boundary shape of image data; a face detection unit configured to detect a face region included in the image data; a setting unit configured to set a parameter of the image processing; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to execute the image processing or whether or not to output a warning in accordance with the parameter of the image processing set by the setting unit and a position of the face region detected by the face detection unit. | 03-18-2010 |
20100067750 | APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING FACE IDENTIFICATION FEATURES, METHOD FOR REGISTERING THE SAME, PROGRAM FOR REGISTERING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The apparatus for registering face identification features can eliminate time and effort for manually retrieving and preparing face images by being provided with a face image retrieving portion | 03-18-2010 |
20100067751 | DICTIONARY DATA REGISTRATION APPARATUS AND DICTIONARY DATA REGISTRATION METHOD - A face data registration apparatus is an apparatus to register dictionary data for walker authentication by use of a face image. The face data registration apparatus causes a posture data collection unit to collect posture variation data from a plurality of face images obtained by photographing a face of a registrant whose posture (face direction) is changed, further causes a walking data collection unit to collect walking data from a face image obtained by photographing a face of the registrant who actually walks along a passage, causes a synthesizing unit to create dictionary data by synthesizing posture variation data and walking data and registers the created dictionary data as dictionary data used to authenticate a person who walks in the passage by face collation into a dictionary data unit. | 03-18-2010 |
20100074479 | HIERARCHICAL FACE RECOGNITION TRAINING METHOD AND HIERARCHICAL FACE RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF - A hierarchical face recognition training method and a hierarchical face recognition method thereof for performing a face feature recognition on an image under detection. The method includes a training process and a recognition process. The recognition method includes the steps. A plurality of training samples is obtained. The training samples are subdivided into a plurality of sub-image categories according to a plurality of angle intervals, and the training of a plurality of face features performs on a corresponding sub-image detector of each of the sub-image categories. The training measures performed repeatedly to generate sub-image categories at a sub-level of the sub-image categories. The training method includes the steps. An image under detection is loaded. A similarity of each of sub-image detectors compares according to the image under detection, and the sub-image detector having the highest similarity is selected. The face recognition measures performed repeatedly on the selected sub-image detector. | 03-25-2010 |
20100080423 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - The image processing apparatus displays a list of individual information from which individual information selected by the individual information selecting unit and individual information lapped over the individual information included in the retrieved individual groups are excluded from individual information included in individual groups retrieved by the individual group retrieval unit, and the individual group retrieval unit narrows down individual groups to be retrieved by adding on individual information designated from the individual information displayed in the list. | 04-01-2010 |
20100092046 | LOGIC ARRANGEMENT, DATA STRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILINEAR REPRESENTATION OF MULTIMODAL DATA ENSEMBLES FOR SYNTHESIS, RECOGNITION AND COMPRESSION - A data structure, method, storage medium and logic arrangement are provided for use in collecting and analyzing multilinear data describing various characteristics of different objects. In particular it is possible to recognize an unknown individual, an unknown object, an unknown action being performed by an individual, an unknown expression being formed by an individual, as well as synthesize a known action never before recorded as being performed by an individual, synthesize an expression never before recorded as being formed by an individual, and reduce the amount of stored data describing an object or action by using dimensionality reduction techniques, and the like. | 04-15-2010 |
20100098301 | Method and Device for Recognizing a Face and Face Recognition Module - A method, device and module for recognizing a face are provided. A 3D-recognition unit recognizes three-dimensional face information in the form of a face information data set. The detected face information includes location information of surface contours of the face. A position normalization step and an orientation normalization step are performed. A feature data set, which is derived from the normalized detected face information, is compared with at least one previously known feature data set of a previously known face. The face is recognized as a previously known face if one or more predefined comparison criteria are fulfilled. The location information encompasses contour coordinates and a frequency distribution is determined in evaluation regions. The frequency distribution indicates how many contour coordinates are located within the individual evaluation regions. The feature data set is derived from the determined frequency. | 04-22-2010 |
20100104144 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTENT DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a temporary storage module configured to extract performer names from a program information corresponding to a video content data, collate a extracted performer names with a names stored in a storage module, collate collation face images corresponding to the names that match the performer names with a plurality of face images, and temporarily store, out of the plurality of face images, coincident face images that match the collation face images, and a display module configured to, when displaying a list of video content data, display the program name and the coincident face images corresponding to each video content data together with the video content data. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104145 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an indexing module, an image display processing module, a playback processing module, and a emphasizing processing module. The indexing module extracts face images which appear in a sequence of moving image data, and outputs time stamp information indicating a timing of appearance of each of the extracted face images. The image display processing module displays the extracted face images on a first display area. The playback processing module plays back the moving image data and displays the moving image data on a second display area. The emphasizing processing module emphasizes, when the moving image data is played back, a face image on the first display area, which appears within a predetermined period corresponding to a present playback position of the moving image data, based on the time stamp information corresponding to each face image which belongs to the extracted face images. | 04-29-2010 |
20100104146 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an image extraction module, a display control module, and a file processing module. The image extraction module extracts face images including a plurality of face images of persons in a video obtained by playing back a video data file from each of video data files. The display control module displays a selection screen which allows a user to select one or more video data files from the video data files, and displays the extracted face images on the selection screen to lay out the face images in correspondence with the video data files. The file processing module executes a process for the one or more video data files selected on the selection screen. | 04-29-2010 |
20100119123 | METHOD AND DEVICE RELATING TO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A method and an arrangement for use in a device, such as a communication device, may be configured to generate an assembly based on one or more images. The system may include an image retrieval portion for retrieving the one or more images from an image source, an arrangement for fetching data corresponding to the one or more images, and converting the data to presentable information, and an arrangement for generating the assembly including the one or more images and the presentable information provided with description. | 05-13-2010 |
20100124363 | DISPLAY PRIVACY SYSTEM - A system for controlling a display privacy filter on a display of an electronic device may include an image capturing unit to capture an image of an object situated in front of the display, detecting the number of human faces on the captured image, and activating the privacy filter on the display if more than one face is detected on the captured image. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128939 | HAIR SEGMENTATION - Segmenting scalp and facial hair of a human subject depicted in an image by identifying from metadata associated with the image or semantic information extracted from the image information indicating a possible distribution of the scalp hair or the facial hair, identifying from hair distribution information an expected-hair region within the image wherein the expected-hair region includes at least a portion of a head area of the subject, and identifying a hair region within the expected hair region | 05-27-2010 |
20100135541 | FACE RECOGNITION METHOD - The invention discloses a face recognition method that reconstructs a 3D face model from a single face image, synthesizes a set of face images under different conditions (such as pose, light . . . ) via the 3D face model, feeds the set of face images under different conditions to the face recognition classifier for training, and making intermediate decisions whether to-be identified individual from a series of video frames is a legal system user by the face recognition classifier. Moreover, the method not only recognizes legal system users, but also rejects imposters, a function inspired by the idea of LLE. Finally, better reliability can be achieved by fusing temporal intermediate decisions. | 06-03-2010 |
20100142768 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN ORIENTATION INDEPENDENT FACE DETECTOR - A method for providing orientation independent face detection may include generating multiple mosaic images from an input image in which each of the multiple mosaic images has a different scale, employing a plurality of differently oriented edge detectors to perform edge detection on the multiple mosaic images including combining edges of the multiple mosaic images having the different scales, and performing face detection in regions corresponding to the differently oriented edge detectors based on respective feature maps produced by the differently oriented edge detectors. An apparatus and computer program product corresponding to the method are also provided. | 06-10-2010 |
20100142769 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to enhance search accuracy when additional data to be added to editing target data is searched using handwriting input. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus includes inputting a pattern to editing target data, acquiring attribute information of the editing target data, searching additional data to be added to the editing target data by using the pattern and the attribute information, and displaying the additional data, which is searched by the search unit and added to the editing target data. | 06-10-2010 |
20100150406 | Virtual Masking Using Rigid Parametric Modeling - Disclosed are systems and methods for masking at least a portion of one image with another image. Aspects of the present invention facilitate the placing of a virtual mask onto an item in an image even if that items moves in subsequent images, such as between different image frames in a video. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING FACES - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for matching faces. The method includes receiving an image of a face of a first person from a device of a second person, comparing the image of the face of the first person to a database of known faces in a contacts list of the second person, identifying a group of potential matching faces from the database of known faces, and displaying to the second person the group of potential matching faces. In one variation, the method receives input selecting one face from the group of potential matching faces and displays additional information about the selected one face. In a related variation, the method displays additional information about one or more face in the displayed group of potential matching faces without receiving input. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150408 | IDENTITY DETERMINATION APPARATUS, IDENTITY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND IDENTITY DETERMINING PROGRAM - The invention makes it possible to determine whether or not objects appearing in various temporal positions in an input video are identical to each other. Identity between a plurality of objects detected from an input video is determined by using an object identity probability determined based on an interframe distance, the interframe distance being a distance between frames from which the respective objects are detected. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150409 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC ILLUMINANT COMPENSATION IN VIDEO SURVEILLANCE - Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for automatically detecting persons and/or other objects in a video signal. Automatic color compensation is applied to the video signal based on measured color of a reference area of the video signal. Generally the reference area is an area of the video signal that does not change often over time. The color compensated video signal is then analyzed for the appearance of objects and persons. In some instances the persons are identified using facial or other type of recognition. Counters or other trackers may provide real-time information, such as how many people are currently on a particular floor of a building. | 06-17-2010 |
20100150410 | Image Classification And Information Retrieval Over Wireless Digital Networks And The Internet - The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals or objects using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar objects or faces to the user The system features classification of images from a variety of Internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, or the matching object, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The image may be manipulated to emphasize similar characteristics between the received facial image and the matching facial image. The meta-data sent down with the image may include sponsored links and advertisements. | 06-17-2010 |
20100158324 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING LIGHT SOURCE THRESHOLD VALUE FOR FACE RECOGNITION - A method for adjusting a light source threshold value for face recognition is presented, including capturing an input image; calculating a first brightness value of the input image; loading a target image; loading a second brightness value of the target image; comparing the first brightness value with the second brightness value to obtain a brightness difference value between the input image and the target image; adjusting a basic threshold value according to the brightness difference value to obtain a recognition threshold value; and performing a face recognition process on the input image by using the recognition threshold value. | 06-24-2010 |
20100158325 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTING AN IMAGE OF A PERSON TO PRODUCE A MUGSHOT - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for forming a mugshot from a digital color image are provided in which a dominant face is determined using the digital color image. Person segmentation is also performed using the digital color image. An image and a mask are cropped based on the dominant face thereby forming a cropped image. Rough segmentation is performed on the cropped image. A mask is averaged in projection space based on the cropped image. The mask is refined mask and prepared for the mugshot. | 06-24-2010 |
20100166266 | Method for Identifying Faces in Images with Improved Accuracy Using Compressed Feature Vectors - A method identifies an unknown face in an input image using reference images of known faces. A Haar-like feature vector is extracted from each image. The vectors are compressed. An L1 norm is determined between the compressed feature vector of the input image and each compressed feature vector from the set of reference images to determine a most similar reference image. The identity of the face associated with the most similar reference image is assigned as the identity of the unknown face in the input image. | 07-01-2010 |
20100172549 | DETECTING IMAGE DETAIL LEVEL - One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be implemented in a method for detecting a detail level of an image including receiving an original image, transforming the original image to generate one or more blurred images, deriving image differences corresponding to ranges of detail frequency of the original image based, at least in part, on the one or more blurred images and the original image, determining, based on the image differences, a detail level value corresponding to the original image, and providing the detail level value to an image management application. | 07-08-2010 |
20100172550 | ORGANIZING IMAGES BY CORRELATING FACES - A computer-implemented method for organizing images including receiving an image that includes a representation of a human face; generating a correlation value indicating a likelihood that the human face corresponds to a stored facial profile associated with one or more profile images including a human face; evaluating the received image and the generated correlation value to determine, depending on a result of the evaluating, whether the image corresponds to the stored facial profile; associating the received image with the stored facial profile; and storing an indication of the associating. | 07-08-2010 |
20100172551 | Organizing Images by Correlating Faces - Methods and systems are presented for organizing images. In one aspect, a method can include generating a correlation value indicating a likelihood that a face included in a test image corresponds to a face associated with a base image, determining that a correlation threshold exceeds the correlation value and that the correlation value exceeds a non-correlation threshold, generating a similarity score based on one or more exposure values and one or more color distribution values corresponding to the test image and the base image, combining the similarity score with the correlation value to generate a weighted correlation value, and determining that the test image and the base image are correlated when the weighted correlation value exceeds the correlation threshold. | 07-08-2010 |
20100177938 | MEDIA OBJECT METADATA ENGINE CONFIGURED TO DETERMINE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PERSONS - A media object, such as an image file, a video file, or an audio file, is analyzed to determine relationships between persons associated with the media object, which may include persons captured in the media object and/or a person that captured the media object. A representation of a first person captured in a media object is detected. The media object is analyzed to determine at least one indicator of a relation between the first person and a second person associated with the media object. A relationship between the first person and the second person is predicted based at least on the determined at least one relation indicator. The media object may be monetized in various ways, such as by directing advertisements to persons associated with the media object, and/or to persons having social connections to the persons associated with the media object. | 07-15-2010 |
20100177939 | MASQUERADE DETECTION SYSTEM, MASQUERADE DETECTION METHOD AND MASQUERADE DETECTION PROGRAM - To provide a masquerade detection system which can detect a masquerade using a photograph, a picture or the like, without using an additional device other than an image picking-up device. A masquerade detection method includes an image conversion step in which an image conversion from one flat plane to the other flat plane is carried out from a first image of an examining object picked up from a first angle into a second image of an examining object picked up from a second angle different from the first angle to generate a converted image, and a masquerade judging step in which the converted image and the second image are entirely or partially compared with each other and, if a compared result satisfies a predetermined condition, an attempt to do a masquerade is judged. | 07-15-2010 |
20100189313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING THREE DIMENSIONAL INFRARED IMAGING TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS - Calibrated infrared and range imaging sensors are used to produce a true-metric three-dimensional (3D) surface model of any body region within the fields of view of both sensors. Curvilinear surface features in both modalities are caused by internal and external anatomical elements. They are extracted to form 3D Feature Maps that are projected onto the skin surface. Skeletonized Feature Maps define subpixel intersections that serve as anatomical landmarks to aggregate multiple images for models of larger regions of the body, and to transform images into precise standard poses. Features are classified by origin, location, and characteristics to produce annotations that are recorded with the images and feature maps in reference image libraries. The system provides an enabling technology for searchable medical image libraries. | 07-29-2010 |
20100202670 | CONTEXT AWARE, MULTIPLE TARGET IMAGE RECOGNITION - In one embodiment, an apparatus may receive at least one image in which multiple targets are represented. The apparatus may assign possible identities to the targets based on probabilities associated with the identities. The apparatus may base a probability of a target being one of the identities, at least in part, on an identity-specific context and on a conditional probability that the target is the identity given that each one of at least two other of the targets is another respective one of the identities. The identity-specific context may be information that relates to a determined identity. The apparatus may identify the targets based on the identities and on the probabilities associated with the identities. | 08-12-2010 |
20100220899 | METHOD OF IMPROVING ORIENTATION AND COLOR BALANCE OF DIGITAL IMAGES USING FACE DETECTION INFORMATION - A method of generating one or more new spatial and chromatic variation digital images uses an original digitally-acquired image which including a face or portions of a face. A group of pixels that correspond to a face within the original digitally-acquired image is identified. A portion of the original image is selected to include the group of pixels. Values of pixels of one or more new images based on the selected portion are automatically generated, or an option to generate them is provided, in a manner which always includes the face within the one or more new images. Such method may be implemented to automatically establish the correct orientation and color balance of an image. Such method can be implemented as an automated method or a semi automatic method to guide users in viewing, capturing or printing of images. | 09-02-2010 |
20100226546 | Communication terminal, display control method, and computer-readable medium storing display control program - A communication terminal connectable to a network for achieving communication via the network, comprising a receiving control device that receives a display image and identification information; a first display control device that displays on the display device the display image received; a determining device that determines whether or not the display image is currently displayed on the display device; a first identifying device that identifies a currently displayed image and the identification information of the other communication terminal that has transmitted the currently displayed image; and a second display control device that, when the receiving control device receives the identification information and a predetermined image, displays at least a partial image of the received predetermined image in such a manner that at least a partial image overlaps with at least a part of a display area of the currently displayed image. | 09-09-2010 |
20100232656 | Method and System for Tagging Digital Data - A method for attaching a tag to digital data provided from a digital device in a digital data management system includes the steps of: attaching the tag to the digital data automatically according to attributes and contents of the digital data. Moreover, a system for managing digital data produced in a digital device includes: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving the digital data; a database for storing and managing the digital data; and a database engine including a processing unit for automatically extracting a tag from the digital data and then assigning the tag to the digital data. By using the method and the system, a user manages the digital data and shares them with other users. The notable effect is that it provides various tag information in a useful form to the users. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232657 | Automatic Face Recognition - Automatic face recognition. In a first example embodiment, a method for automatic face recognition includes several acts. First, a face pattern and two eye patterns are detected. Then, the face pattern is normalized. Next, the normalized face pattern is transformed into a normalized face feature vector of Gabor feature representations. Then, a difference image vector is calculated. Next, the difference image vector is projected to a lower-dimensional intra-subject subspace extracted from a pre-collected training face database. Then, a square function is applied to each component of the projection. Next, a weighted summation of the squared projection is calculated. Then, the previous four acts are repeated for each normalized gallery image feature vector. Finally, the face pattern in the probe digital image is classified as belonging to the gallery image with the highest calculated weighted summation where the highest calculated weighted summation is above a predefined threshold. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232658 | VEHICLE OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD, AS WELL AS, PROGRAM - A similarity degree calculating unit calculates a similarity degree of a feature quantity of a face image of an imaged checking target, and a feature quantity of a face image of a registrant or a non-registrant registered in a registrant information DB or a non-registrant information DB. A check determination unit notifies a service determination unit when the similarity degree is higher than a threshold value. A related information acquiring unit acquires related information including inter-registrant information, and provides to a time-series information DB generation unit and the service determination unit. The time-series information DB generation unit updates the time-series information DB. A statistical information DB generation unit generates the statistical information DB from the time-series information DB. The service determination unit provides services based on the related information, the time-series information DB, and the statistical information DB. | 09-16-2010 |
20100239130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING RAPID FACIAL RECOGNITION - A system and a method for performing rapid facial recognition are provided. The rapid facial recognition system includes an image capture device, a broadcasting feature computing unit and several response recognition computing units scattered on the network. Each of the broadcasting feature computing unit and the response recognition computing units includes a feature recognition module, wherein the broadcasting feature computing unit further includes a feature extraction module and an identification module. The image capture device captures a facial image, and the feature extraction module extracts features of the facial image to generate a set of feature data that is broadcasted to the response recognition computing units. The feature recognition modules, in accordance with the set of the feature data and their classes allocated, perform distributed facial recognition for generating recognition results as a response. The identification module identifies the recognition results to accomplish the recognition of an individual's identity. | 09-23-2010 |
20100239131 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING - According to one of embodiments, taking in facial image data for a user, extracting feature points of the face of the user from the facial image data and then coding the feature points, and registering the facial image data on a destination management table so that the facial image data is associated with a special identifier and/or the coded feature points. In particular, the face of the sender is incorporated into a video mail, so that the exchange of addresses (faces) is facilitated and the reliability of the e-mail itself can be enhanced. Further, a face can be automatically registered on an address book at a receiving end. In this case, a similar face can be updated by the latest face. | 09-23-2010 |
20100246904 | FACE AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, FACE AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND FACE AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM - When a human detection sensor detects a person to be authenticated, an illumination unit obtains ambient light illuminance measured by an illuminance sensor. Lighting illuminance is then determined by using illuminance conversion information, which indicates the lighting illuminance corresponding to the ambient light illuminance, so that when the ambient light illuminance is low, the lighting illuminance becomes low, and when the ambient light illuminance is high, the lighting illuminance becomes high. The illuminance of a light source is controlled so that intensity of illumination becomes the determined illuminance. A face authentication terminal then authenticates the person to be authenticated under illumination by the illumination unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246905 | PERSON IDENTIFYING APPARATUS, PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND METHOD THEREOF - A person identifying apparatus calculates suitability as a reference for improving a face identification rate of an identical person appeared in frames of a moving image on the frame-to-frame basis, selects a frame from the moving image using the suitability, calculates a feature value from the selected frame, and identifies the face of the person on the basis of a similarity between the feature value and a feature value of a reference frame selected in advance using the suitability. | 09-30-2010 |
20100246906 | FACE RECOGNITION - This invention concerns computer based face recognition. A person's face is captured in an image and received ( | 09-30-2010 |
20100254576 | DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM TO IMPLEMENT THE METHOD - A digital photographing apparatus generates first image data including a first image and second image data including a second image that is obtained by displaying information onto the first image. The information may be stored in a database and may be related to a face recognized in the first image, related to a location at which the first image was obtained, or input by a user. The digital photographing apparatus stores the first image data and the second image data as one file to improve a user's convenience. The digital photographing apparatus may include an imaging device that generates first image data from incident light, a face recognition unit that determines whether a face is included in a first image of the first image data, a database storage medium that stores a database having information about faces in the first image, a face information search unit that searches for the information about a face included in the first image from the database, a sub-image generation unit that generates second image data including a second image that is obtained by displaying the information found by the face information search unit onto the first image, a multi-picture file generation unit that generates one multi-picture file including the first image data and the second image data, and an image data storage medium that stores the multi-picture file. | 10-07-2010 |
20100254577 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PERFORMING SIMILARITY SEARCHES - A similarity search may be performed on the image of a person, using visual characteristics and information that is known about the person. The search identifies images of other persons that are similar in appearance to the person in the image. | 10-07-2010 |
20100260387 | IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE AND SUBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD USING THE SAME - An image capture device determines whether a subject with an image captured by the image capture device is a target subject. The image capture device captures a primary image of the target subject and an image of the subject, senses tilt angles relative to the horizon of capturing the primary image and the image to be tested, and transmits an image process command to rotate the primary image to generate a plurality of sample images with different tilt angles. The image capture device further transmits a selection command to select a sample image with a tilt angle approximately equal to the second tilt angle, and compares the image of the subject and the selected sample image to determine whether the subject is the target subject. | 10-14-2010 |
20100266166 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a sequence creating section configured to create a plurality of sequences in such a manner that one sequence includes consecutive face images of a same person in video image data; a similarity calculating section configured to calculate a first similarity of each pair in a plurality of face image dictionaries created for each sequence and a second similarity of each pair of each face image dictionary and a predetermined plurality of dictionaries; a similarity correcting section configured to correct the calculated and obtained plurality of first similarities by the second similarities; and a face clustering section configured to compare the plurality of first similarities corrected by the similarity correcting section with a predetermined threshold to cluster the plurality of face image dictionaries. | 10-21-2010 |
20100266167 | Method and Apparatus for Encouraging Social Networking Through Employment of Facial Feature Comparison and Matching - A social networking site providing facial similarity matching services to subscribers to the social networking site. A subscriber may upload a digital image of himself and have it compared to digital images of other member subscribers using software to interpret points of comparison on each digital image. Subscribers may effect the outcome of the matching process by designating a selection of images as close matches from a computer generated plurality of matching images. A collage of finally matched images is provided to the inquiring subscriber as well as contact information to communicate with the other subscribers. | 10-21-2010 |
20100272328 | FACE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a face authentication system and an authentication method thereof. The system includes a photographing unit for detecting a face image of an authentication target person by using an auto focus lens equipped therewith; a distance extraction unit for extracting a distance from the photographing unit to a face of the authentication target person; a feature extraction unit for extracting feature points and distances therebetween of the face image for the authentication target person, which are detected by the photographing unit; an analysis unit for performing an analysis by comparing a distance to the face of the authentication target person extracted from the distance extraction unit with pre-registered distance information to the face of the authentication target person, and comparing feature points and distances therebetween of the face image for the authentication target person, which are extracted from the feature extraction unit, with pre-registered information of the face image of the authentication target person; and an authentication unit for authenticating the authentication target person according to an analysis result obtained by comparison of the analysis unit. | 10-28-2010 |
20100278395 | Automatic backlit face detection - The subject application is directed to a system and method for detecting facial areas from an image having a relatively light background. Image data is received including at least one candidate facial region. A candidate facial region is isolated from the image data as is a subportion of an interior of the candidate facial region. A size of the subportion is compared relative to a preselected threshold size value, a luminance value of the subportion is compared with a preselected darkness threshold value, and a facial recognition signal is generated corresponding to a detected facial region in accordance with an output of the size comparison and the luminance comparison. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278396 | IMAGE GROUP TITLE ASSIGNING DEVICE, IMAGE GROUPING DEVICE, REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE DETERMINATION DEVICE FOR IMAGE GROUP, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, CAMERA, AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - An image group title assigning device includes: a title candidate assigning means for assigning a plurality of title candidates to an image group having a plurality of images; a characteristic amount calculating means for individually calculating characteristic amounts of a plurality of images included in the image group in association with each of the plurality of title candidates; and a title determining means for determining a title representing the image group from among the title candidates based upon a characteristic amount of each of the images calculated for each of the title candidates. | 11-04-2010 |
20100284577 | POSE-VARIANT FACE RECOGNITION USING MULTISCALE LOCAL DESCRIPTORS - Representing a face by jointly quantizing features and spatial location to perform implicit elastic matching between features. A plurality of the features are extracted from a face image and expanded with a corresponding spatial location in the face image. Each of the expanded features is quantized based on one or more randomized decision trees. A histogram of the quantized features is calculated to represent the face image. The histogram is compared to histograms of other face images to identify a match, or to calculate a distance metric representative of a difference between faces. | 11-11-2010 |
20100290677 | Facial and/or Body Recognition with Improved Accuracy - Processors are disclosed configured to perform one or more of the following: assess at least one image containing an item for identification and a reference object to at least partly create an object schematic, and/or manage a list of object cells containing object schematics, and/or search the object cell list for matches to a second object schematic of an unknown person to create a list of possible matched persons. The object schematics include realistic parameters that may be realistic distances and/or positions. The object schematic, the list of object cells, and the list of possible matched persons are all products of various methods. The apparatus further includes removable memories and/or servers configured to deliver programs, installation packages and/or Finite State Machine configuration packages. | 11-18-2010 |
20100296706 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING FACIAL EXPRESSION OR INDIVIDUAL, AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - A face detecting unit detects a person's face from input image data, and a parameter setting unit sets parameters for generating a gradient histogram indicating the gradient direction and gradient magnitude of a pixel value based on the detected face. Further, a generating unit sets a region (a cell) from which to generate a gradient histogram in the region of the detected face, and generates a gradient histogram for each such region to generate feature vectors. An expression identifying unit identifies an expression exhibited by the detected face based on the feature vectors. Thereby, the facial expression of a person included in an image is identified with high precision. | 11-25-2010 |
20100296707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING - According to one embodiment, an information reproducing method including, fetching facial image data of a viewer, extracting feature points on a face of the viewer from the fetched facial image data, and coding the feature points, comparing the coded feature points with viewer feature-point information stored in a management table, and presenting different pieces of information depending upon whether a viewer corresponding to the viewer feature-point information stored in the management table is present or not. | 11-25-2010 |
20100310134 | ASSISTED FACE RECOGNITION TAGGING - The described implementations relate to assisted face recognition tagging of digital images, and specifically to context-driven assisted face recognition tagging. In one case, context-driven assisted face recognition tagging (CDAFRT) tools can access face images associated with a photo gallery. The CDAFRT tools can perform context-driven face recognition to identify individual face images at a specified probability. In such a configuration, the probability that the individual face images are correctly identified can be higher than attempting to identify individual face images in isolation. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310135 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING DIGITAL MEDIA BASED ON FACE RECOGNITION - In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for organizing digital media, particularly digital photos, using face recognition. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a computer-based method for organizing digital photos comprises: extracting objects of interest from a plurality of photographs; cropping said plurality of photographs to generate images of isolated objects of interest; applying a recognition algorithm to determine the similarity of isolated objects of interest with a reference; displaying a plurality of objects arranged as a function of the determined similarity; and receiving user input to associate said objects with a particular classification. | 12-09-2010 |
20100316265 | FACE AUTHENTICATION DEVICE - A face authentication device is provided that can perform personal identification with high accuracy regardless of an imaging environment for an input face image. The face authentication device comprises: a first similarity calculation unit ( | 12-16-2010 |
20100329517 | BOOSTED FACE VERIFICATION - Techniques for face verification are described. Local binary pattern (LBP) features and boosting classifiers are used to verify faces in images. A boosted multi-task learning algorithm is used for face verification in images. Finally, boosted face verification is used to verify faces in videos. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329518 | DYNAMIC IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD FOR HUMAN FACE DETECTION - A dynamic image compression method for human face detection includes the following steps. An original image is acquired. The image is divided into a plurality of blocks. A first brightness and a plurality of gradient values of each block are calculated. A second brightness of each block is calculated according to a brightness transformation function and the first brightness. A reconstruction image is generated according to the second brightness and the plurality of gradient values of each block. Human face detection is performed according to the reconstruction image. Therefore, gradient values within an original square are. When the human face detection process is performed through gradient direction information, a success rate of detection is greatly increased. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329519 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHOTOGRAPH FINDING - Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an embodiment of the invention, distinctive markers are distributed to aid in the identification of particular subject matter. Facial recognition may also be employed. The digital image data is maintained in a database and quarried in response to search requests. The search requests include criteria specifying any feature category or other identifying information, such as date, time, and location that each photograph was taken, associated with each photograph. Candidate images are provided for review by requesters, who may select desired images for purchase or downloading. | 12-30-2010 |
20110002511 | MOLE IDENTIFYING DEVICE, AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A mole identifying method having the following steps: inputting a multispectral image photographed using an imaging device and composed of a plurality of spectra; detecting mole candidates from said multispectral image; and identifying said mole candidates as a true mole or false mole based on the absorption spectra of said detected mole candidates. | 01-06-2011 |
20110013810 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC TAGGING OF A DIGITAL IMAGE - A system for automatically tagging a digital image includes an electronic device having a face detector for receiving a digital image and determining whether the digital image contains at least one face. A faceprint generator generates a faceprint representing a face detected in the digital image. A matching operation attempts to match the faceprint to a reference data item to identify the face represented by the faceprint. If a match is found, a tag generator generates a text tag corresponding to the identity of the face represented by the faceprint, and may associate the tag with the digital image. If a match is not found, the faceprint may be transmitted with an identification request to an external electronic device, which performs the matching operation. Upon matching the faceprint to a reference data item, identification data identifying the face represented by the faceprint may be transmitted from the external electronic device to the originating electronic device. A text tag may then be generated based on the identification data. | 01-20-2011 |
20110013811 | BROADCASTING RECEIVER - In a broadcasting receiver, the receiver is so operated as not to disturb viewing by audiences other than an operator. The broadcasting receiver has an image pickup unit for photographing images of televiewers, a face detection unit for detecting faces of the televiewers from the photographed image, an individual discrimination unit for managing detected faces discriminately, a watching concentration degree calculation unit for calculating degrees of concentration of watching a television in respect of individual discriminated faces and an operation execution decision unit for deciding a television operator and deciding execution of operation in accordance with values of watching concentration degrees of the televiewers other than the operator. | 01-20-2011 |
20110013812 | ENTRANCE CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING A CAMERA AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An entrance control system having a camera, and a method thereof of controlling entrance are provided. The entrance control system not only controls entrances through a use of an authentication tool based on biometric recognition, but also photographs a person attempting an entry through the camera, maps the information into authentication history and manages the history data. Accordingly, the entrance control system is capable of rejecting an unauthorized person who has forged biometric information such as a forged fingerprint. In order to ensure a reliability of image record of the person, the system processes a facial recognition algorithm to determine if a frontal face of the person is captured, and controls so that an error message is provided to the person if there is an error, and authentication based on biometric recognition is processed only when the face of the person is captured within an image range. | 01-20-2011 |
20110026778 | System and Method of Using Facial Recognition to Update a Personal Contact List - An electronic device has a memory that stores images of people and a contact list of personal contacts. Each personal contact is a record that identifies the contact information for a person, and a corresponding facial signature for the person. The facial signature identifies a unique facial pattern for that person. The device analyzes the facial features of the person in the image and extracts selected facial features for comparison to the facial signatures in the contact list. Based on the results of the comparison, the device will link the image to the contact information. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026779 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, IDENTIFYING INTENT AND TRANSFORMING IMAGES THROUGH REVIEW OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - Methods of analyzing a plurality of facial expressions are disclosed that include: identifying a subject person, utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target, removing at least one distracter expression from the target image to form a revised target image, and reviewing the revised target image with at least one third party participant to form a final target image. Additional methods of analyzing a plurality of facial expressions include: identifying a subject person, utilizing the subject person to create an image of a known target, digitizing the target image, removing at least one distracter expression from the target image to transform the target image to a revised target image, and reviewing the revised target image with at least one third party participant to transform the revised target image to a final target image. Software for implementing contemplated methods include: a set speed function, a pre-test phase function, an instruction phase function, a practice phase function, and a post-test phase function. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026780 | FACE TRACKING FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING PARAMETERS - A method of tracking faces in an image stream with a digital image acquisition device includes receiving images from an image stream including faces, calculating corresponding integral images, and applying different subsets of face detection rectangles to the integral images to provide sets of candidate regions. The different subsets include candidate face regions of different sizes and/or locations within the images. The different candidate face regions from different images of the image stream are each tracked. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026781 | SYSTEM FOR SECURE FACE IDENTIFICATION (SCIFI) AND METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH - A method for privacy-retaining face identification comprising dividing at least one input face into a first set of patches, providing an assortment of patch profiles for each patch in the first set of patches, each patch profile in the assortment being associated with a unique index thereby to define an assortment of unique indices, for each individual patch in the input face, finding at least one patch profile within the assortment of patch profiles which most resembles the individual patch, thereby to define a first set of indices from among the assortment of unique indices whose corresponding patch profiles most resemble the input face's patches respectively, and using a privacy preserving computation to generate a physical output indicative of a comparison of the input face and at least one target face by comparing first and second functions of the first set of indices and of a second set of indices respectively, the second set of indices corresponding to patch profiles which most resemble a second set of patches into which the target face has been divided. | 02-03-2011 |
20110026782 | PERSON RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Subtracting the date of taking a registrant's face image from the date of taking a photographic image of a person to be recognized, the number of elapsed years Y of the registrant's face image is calculated. If Y<5, an unsophisticated image comparator is selected. If 5≦Y<10, a first face parts comparator is selected to calculate the degree of resemblance between the photographic image and the registrant's face image more precisely than the unsophisticated image comparator. If 10≦Y, a second face parts comparator is selected. If the face image is a child's, the second face parts comparator compares the photographic image not only with the child's face image but also with his/her cognate's face image. After the photographic image is compared with every registrant's face image, the personal data of the top four registrants having the highest degree of resemblance is displayed on an LCD. | 02-03-2011 |
20110033092 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING FACE RECOGNITION RATIO - An apparatus for improving a face recognition ratio includes a digital signal processing unit which generates a first image having a size different from that of a live-view image and, when the size of a face detected from the first image is smaller than a reference size, maps information about the face detected from the first image on the live-view image and performs smile and/or blink recognition. | 02-10-2011 |
20110038512 | Facial Recognition with Social Network Aiding - A facial recognition search system identifies one or more likely names (or other personal identifiers) corresponding to the facial image(s) in a query as follows. After receiving the visual query with one or more facial images, the system identifies images that potentially match the respective facial image in accordance with visual similarity criteria. Then one or more persons associated with the potential images are identified. For each identified person, person-specific data comprising metrics of social connectivity to the requester are retrieved from a plurality of applications such as communications applications, social networking applications, calendar applications, and collaborative applications. An ordered list of persons is then generated by ranking the identified persons in accordance with at least metrics of visual similarity between the respective facial image and the potential image matches and with the social connection metrics. Finally, at least one person identifier from the list is sent to the requester. | 02-17-2011 |
20110044512 | Automatic Image Tagging - A method of automatic tagging of images on an image hosting website includes receiving at least one image, locating faces and/or people in the received image, recognizing features of the located faces and/or people, and automatically tagging the located faces and/or people in response to the recognizing. | 02-24-2011 |
20110052012 | Security and Monetization Through Facial Recognition in Social Networking Websites - A method of facial feature recognition at an image hosting website includes receiving an image, processing the received image at a recognition server to identify features and/or people, determining at least one of, a targeted ad based on the identified features, and a comparison the identified features in the image to images in an image database, and driving a security measure or targeted ad in response to the determining. | 03-03-2011 |
20110052013 | FACE POSE ESTIMATION DEVICE, FACE POSE ESTIMATION METHOD AND FACE POSE ESTIMATION PROGRAM - An object is to provide a face pose estimating device, a face pose estimating method, and a face pose estimating program that allow high accuracy estimation of a face pose even if a face organ cannot be detected from an image. A face organ detector | 03-03-2011 |
20110052014 | Digital Image Search System And Method - A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of an unknown twin using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. | 03-03-2011 |
20110058713 | DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME, CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH CONTROL PROGRAM - A digital photo frame including a display section capable of sequentially displaying at least two digital photographs judges the facial expression of a person viewing a digital photograph displayed in the display section, and information related to this judged facial expression is stored in association with the digital photograph being displayed. Also, when stored digital photographs are to be displayed, information related to a facial expression stored in association with each digital photograph and a judged facial expression of a person are compared, and the display of each stored digital photograph is controlled based on the comparison result. | 03-10-2011 |
20110064281 | PICTURE SHARING METHODS FOR A PORTABLE DEVICE - A picture sharing method for a portable device is provided. First, a picture to be shared is retrieved. A face recognition procedure is then performed on the picture to recognize at least one facial image in the picture. Thereafter, personal information corresponding to the recognized facial image is obtained. Next, the picture is transmitted to at least one specific network location according to the obtained personal information via a network. | 03-17-2011 |
20110075894 | Digital Image Processing Using Face Detection Information - A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075895 | Digital Image Processing Using Face Detection Information - A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values. | 03-31-2011 |
20110081052 | FACE RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE USING ADDITIONAL IMAGE FEATURES - A technique is provided for recognizing faces in an image stream using a digital image acquisition device. A first acquired image is received from an image stream. A first face region is detected within the first acquired image having a given size and a respective location within the first acquired image. First faceprint data uniquely identifying the first face region are extracted along with first peripheral region data around the first face region. The first faceprint and peripheral region data are stored, and the first peripheral region data are associated with the first face region. The first face region is tracked until a face lock is lost. A second face region is detected within a second acquired image from the image stream. Second peripheral region data around the second face region are extracted. The second face region is identified upon matching the first and second peripheral region data. | 04-07-2011 |
20110081053 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OCCLUSION TOLERANT FACE RECOGNITION - Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for face recognition that is occlusion tolerant and scale/shift invariant based on a combination of hierarchical maximization and adaptive representation technique. | 04-07-2011 |
20110085710 | USING RELEVANCE FEEDBACK IN FACE RECOGNITION - Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and presented to the user as sorted search result images. The user may provide explicit or implicit feedback regarding the search result images. Additional feedback may be inferred regarding the search result images based on the user-provided feedback, and the results may be updated based on the user-provided and inferred feedback. | 04-14-2011 |
20110091079 | FACIAL IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE - A facial image recognition system for a driver of a vehicle includes an image capturing unit, an image processing unit, and a warning unit. The image capturing unit is used for capturing facial images of the driver. The image processing unit is electrically coupled to the image capturing unit, has installed therein a facial frame selecting and position correcting method and an identification comparison algorithm, and receives the facial images of the driver from the image capturing unit. The warning unit is electrically coupled to the image processing unit, and emits a warning signal when the image processing unit determines that an identification of the driver has changed. | 04-21-2011 |
20110091080 | Face Recognition System and Method - Apparatus for face recognition, the apparatus comprising: a face symmetry verifier, configured to verify symmetry of a face in at least one image, according to a predefined symmetry criterion, and a face identifier, associated with the face symmetry verifier, and configured to identify the face, provided the symmetry of the face is successfully verified. | 04-21-2011 |
20110096961 | BIOMETRIC INFORMATION DETECTION USING SWEEP-TYPE IMAGER - A fingerprint recognition system in which a user's finger ( | 04-28-2011 |
20110110564 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a viewer image generating module, a viewer recognition module, a group extraction module, and an image display module. The viewer image generating module generates an image of a viewer by capturing the image of the viewer. The viewer recognition module detects a face image in the generated image and recognizes the viewer corresponding to the detected face image. The group extraction module extracts, from a plurality of groups each including still images, groups including at least one of a still image including the face image of the viewer and a still image imported by the viewer. The image display module displays still images in the extracted groups on a screen. | 05-12-2011 |
20110116689 | System and method for classification of digital images containing human subjects characteristics - The subject application is directed to a system and method for digital image classification. A first data set that includes a data range that corresponds to a first flesh tone range derived from measured flesh tones of subjects in a first ethnicity class is stored memory. A second data set having a data range that corresponds to a second flesh tone range derived from measured flesh tones of subjects in a second ethnicity unique to the first ethnicity is stored in memory. The data sets being encoded in a three dimensional color space. Image data is then received that includes a human subject. A facial region is isolated and image data in the facial region is compared with each data set via a processor operable with the memory. An image correction signal is generated representing whether the facial region aligns with the first data set or the second data set. | 05-19-2011 |
20110116690 | Automatically Mining Person Models of Celebrities for Visual Search Applications - Methods and systems for automated identification of celebrity face images are provided that generate a name list of prominent celebrities, obtain a set of images and corresponding feature vectors for each name, detect faces within the set of images, and remove non-face images. An analysis of the images is performed using an intra-model analysis, an inter-model analysis, and a spectral analysis to return highly accurate biometric models for each of the individuals present in the name list. Recognition is then performed based on precision and recall to identify the face images as belonging to a celebrity or indicate that the face is unknown. | 05-19-2011 |
20110123071 | Method And System For Attaching A Metatag To A Digital Image - A system and method for tagging an image of an individual in a plurality of photos is disclosed herein. A feature vector of an individual is used to analyze a set of photos on a social networking website such as www.facebook.com to determine if an image of the individual is present in a photo of the set of photos. Photos having an image of the individual are tagged preferably by listing a URL or URI for each of the photos in a database. | 05-26-2011 |
20110129126 | System and Method to Assign a Digital Image to a Face Cluster - A computer implemented method includes accessing a digital image including a plurality of faces including a first face and a second face. The computer implemented method includes identifying a plurality of identification regions of the digital image including a first identification region associated with the first face and a second identification region associated with the second face. The computer implemented method also includes assigning the digital image to a first face cluster of a plurality of face clusters when a difference between data descriptive of the first identification region and data descriptive of a face cluster identification region of the first face cluster satisfies a threshold. The computer implemented method further includes assigning the digital image to a second face cluster of the plurality of face clusters based at least partially on a probability of the second face and the first face appearing together in an image. | 06-02-2011 |
20110129127 | OBJECT IMAGE CORRECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OBJECT IDENTIFICATION - An object image correction apparatus and method for object identification are disclosed. The object image correction method is firstly used for correcting a face or an object under a right position. For example, in order to reduce time consumption for facial identification, the method corrects the deviations such as a rotation, direction, and scaling before an identification process. Preferably, an image is retrieved in a first step. One or more object positions are then detected. Next, some positions of the features are found, and the positions of plural feature points thereon are computed. The method then goes to determine the degree of deviations for the object based on the positions of feature points. Moreover, one or in combination of a rotation correction, a scaling correction, a direction correction, and a shift correction is introduced to process the correction on each deviation. The positions of the feature points are consequently obtained. | 06-02-2011 |
20110135165 | Robust Human Authentication Using Holistic Anthropometric and Appearance-Based Features and Boosting - A new robust human authentication system, device, and instructions, embeddable in a physical and tangible computer readable medium, for determining if at least one test image obtained using an imaging device matches at least one training image in an enrollment database, are disclosed. This invention applies the concepts of appearance (PCA or PCA+LDA) and holistic anthropometrics that include head, face, neck, and shoulder linear and non-linear geometric measurements. The appearance (“eigen”) coefficients and holistic anthropometric measurements selected may be used as feature vectors. A boosting algorithm ranks features as “weak learners” and combines their outputs for “strong” recognition. | 06-09-2011 |
20110135166 | Face Authentication Using Recognition-by-Parts, Boosting, and Transduction - A robust recognition-by-parts authentication system for comparing and authenticating a test image with at least one training image is disclosed. This invention applies the concepts of recognition-by-parts, boosting, and transduction. | 06-09-2011 |
20110135167 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A personal authentication system according to the present invention includes a matrix generation unit, a feature extraction unit, a feature transformation unit, a processing unit, and a data matching unit. The matrix generation unit classifies a plurality of feature amounts of face image data, which are recorded in advance, into classes and calculates as a mapping matrix, coefficients of a linear discriminant equation which uses the recorded plurality of feature amounts as variables. The feature extraction unit extracts a first feature amount from first face image data and extracts a second feature amount from second face image data. The feature transformation unit, by using the mapping matrix, transforms the first feature amount into a first transformed feature amount and transforms the second feature amount into a second transformed feature amount. The processing unit calculates as a similarity, a normalized correlation value between the first transformed feature amount and the second transformed feature amount. The data matching unit judges that the first face image data and the second face image data are image data of same person when the similarity exceeds a predetermined threshold. | 06-09-2011 |
20110135168 | FACE AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, PERSON IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM, FACE AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING FACE AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS - The present invention further improves an accuracy of face authentication procedure without need for any special video equipment and others. In a face authentication apparatus ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110142298 | FLEXIBLE IMAGE COMPARISON AND FACE MATCHING APPLICATION - Two faces may be compared by calculating distances between different regions of the windows, and choosing one of the distances as the difference between the images. Two images are examined to detect the location of the face in the images. The faces may then be geometrically and photometrically rectified. A sliding window that is smaller than the whole face may be positioned at various locations over the images, and a descriptor is calculated for each window position. The descriptor for a window at one location in one image is compared with descriptors for windows in the neighborhood of that location in the other image. The lowest distance between window descriptors is chosen. The process is repeated for all window positions, resulting in a set of distances. The distances are sorted, and one of the distances is chosen to represent the difference between the two faces. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142299 | RECOGNITION OF FACES USING PRIOR BEHAVIOR - Face recognition may be performed using a combination of visual analysis and social context. In one example, a web site such as a social networking site or photo-sharing site allows users to upload photos, and allows faces that appear in the photo to be tagged with users' names. When user A uploads a new photo, two analyses may be performed. First, a face in the photo is compared with known faces of users to determine similarity. Second, it is determined which other users user A frequently uploads photos of. Two probability distributions are created. One distribution assigns high probabilities to users whose photos are similar to the new photo. The other assigns high probabilities to users who frequently appear in photos uploaded by user A. These probability distributions are combined, and the person in the photo is identified as being the person with the highest probability. | 06-16-2011 |
20110142300 | Relation Tree - A method for creating a relation tree including scanning a storage device for digital images and performing at least one facial analysis on individuals in the digital images, identifying members of a nuclear family and an association of an individual from the digital images with the nuclear family in response to at least one of the facial analysis, and organizing the relation tree such that the nuclear family is linked with the associated individual. | 06-16-2011 |
20110150294 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include a facial recognition module configured for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and a display module coupled with the facial recognition module, the display module configured for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150295 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include a facial recognition module configured for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and a display module coupled with the facial recognition module, the display module configured for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150296 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include a facial recognition module configured for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and a display module coupled with the facial recognition module, the display module configured for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150297 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include a facial recognition module configured for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and a display module coupled with the facial recognition module, the display module configured for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150298 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include a facial recognition module configured for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and a display module coupled with the facial recognition module, the display module configured for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150299 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include a facial recognition module configured for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and a display module coupled with the facial recognition module, the display module configured for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150300 | IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An identification system includes a time-of-flight (TOF) camera and a processing unit. The TOF camera captures an image of a person, and obtains distance data between a number of points on the person and the TOF camera. The processing unit builds a current 3D model of a face of the person according to the image and the distance data, and compares the current 3D model with a number of stored 3D models to determine whether the current 3D model is the same as one of the stored 3D models, for identifying the person. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150301 | Face Identification Method and System Using Thereof - A face identification method includes the following steps. First, first and second sets of hidden layer parameters, which respectively correspond to first and second database character vectors, are obtained by way of training according to multiple first and second training character data. Next, first and second back propagation neural networks (BPNNs) are established according to the first and second sets of hidden layer parameters, respectively. Then, to-be-identified data are provided to the first BPNN to find a first output character vector. Next, whether the first output character vector satisfies an identification criterion is determined. If not, the to-be-identified data are provided to the second BPNN to find a second output character vector. Then, whether the second output character vector satisfies the identification criterion is determined. If yes, the to-be-identified data are identified as corresponding to the second database character vector. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150302 | FACE MATCHING DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, FACE MATCHING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND FACE MATCHING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM - A face matching device ( | 06-23-2011 |
20110164792 | FACIAL RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Two-dimensional image information and three-dimensional image information of a subject are acquired, facial recognition is performed using the two-dimensional image information to determine whether a recognized face is a registered user's face, an elliptical model of the user is matched to the three-dimensional image information to calculate an error if it is determined that the recognized face is the user's face, and it is determined whether the user's face is improperly used based on the error. The subject's face is determined using the two-dimensional image information and the three-dimensional image information of the subject and it is determined whether the recognized face is improperly used, thereby improving facial recognition reliability. Thus, information security is improved. | 07-07-2011 |
20110170749 | VIDEO RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR HUMAN FACE CONTENT - A method and apparatus for video retrieval and cueing that automatically detects human faces in the video and identifies face-specific video frames so as to allow retrieval and viewing of person-specific video segments. In one embodiment, the method locates human faces in the video, stores the time stamps associated with each face, displays a single image associated with each face, matches each face against a database, computes face locations with respect to a common 3D coordinate system, and provides a means of displaying: 1) information retrieved from the database associated with a selected person or people, 2) path of travel associated with a selected person or people, 3) interaction graph of people in video, 4) video segments associated with each person and/or face. The method may also provide the ability to input and store text annotations associated with each person, face, and video segment, and the ability to enroll and remove people from database. The videos of non-human objects may be processed in a similar manner. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims. | 07-14-2011 |
20110182484 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR FORMING HUMAN NETWORK USING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method of forming a human network using the same are provided. The method for forming a human network includes selecting a person of interest from an image; selecting a relay person from the first stored image to which information about the selected person of interest is relayed through facial recognition; and acquiring the personal information for the selected person of interest from a mobile terminal of the selected relay person. | 07-28-2011 |
20110182485 | RELATIONSHIP MAPPING EMPLOYING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CONTEXT INCLUDING FACIAL RECOGNITION - A system and method for mapping interpersonal relationships, the method including processing a multiplicity of images and contextual information relating thereto including creating and prioritizing a list of a plurality of candidate persons having at least a predetermined relationship with at least one person connected to at least one image, using multi-dimensional information including visually sensible information in the multiplicity of images and contextual information relating thereto and searching the list of a plurality of candidate persons based at least in part on the prioritizing to select at least one of the candidate persons as having at least a predetermined relationship with the at least one person. | 07-28-2011 |
20110188712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING FAKE IMAGE - An apparatus for determining a fake image includes an image-acquiring block for acquiring an image captured by and input from a camera; and a background-learning block for learning a background of the image to create a learning background. Further, the apparatus for determining the fake image includes a face extracting-block for extracting a face region of a person to be authenticated when an input image for authentication is transmitted from the camera; and an inter-background comparing block for comparing a present background of an input image with the learning background. Furthermore, the apparatus for determining the fake image includes a motion information-comparing block for extracting motion information in the face region and the present background to compare the same with each other; and a fake image-determining block for determining whether the input image is faked using the compared results of the motion information and the backgrounds. | 08-04-2011 |
20110188713 | FACIAL IMAGE RECOGNITION AND RETRIEVAL - A method or system providing face verification, including obtaining a set of features from a selected image and determining if there are any faces in the selected image. If faces are determined a dominance factor is assigned to at least one face and verification of an identity of the at least one face in the selected image is attempted and a confidence score returned. In attempting to verify the identity of the at least one face any identity information is extracted from metadata associated with the selected image. Also disclosed is a method of facial image retrieval, including defining a query image set from one or more selected facial images, determining a dissimilarity measurement between at least one query feature and at least one target feature. This enables identification of one or more identified facial images from the target facial image set based on the dissimilarity measurement. | 08-04-2011 |
20110206244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED BIOMETRIC SECURITY - Embodiments of the invention provide biometrics systems having enhanced security. Embodiments of the invention provide facial recognition systems implemented for access control purposes, such as a biometrics access control system for an electronic device, in which modified and/or additional challenges via a facial recognition system are made prior to granting access to the protected device. | 08-25-2011 |
20110206245 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include means for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and means for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 08-25-2011 |
20110206246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STATISTICAL MAPPING BETWEEN GENETIC INFORMATION AND FACIAL IMAGE DATA - A method and system for statistical mapping between genetic information and facial image data including collecting a multiplicity of sets of genetic information and matching facial image data representing a multiplicity of individuals, representing the genetic information of each of the multiplicity of individuals as a first multidimensional representation, representing the facial image data of each of the multiplicity of individuals as a second multidimensional representation; and inferring correlative, non-causal, statistical relationships between the first multidimensional representations and the second multidimensional representations. A system and method for estimating the likelihood of donor-recipient transplant compatibility using facial images of potential donors, the method including inferring correlative, non-causal, statistical relationships, indicative of transplant compatibility, between multidimensional representations of facial image data of potential donors and a multidimensional representation of information relating to a potential recipient. | 08-25-2011 |
20110211736 | Ranking Based on Facial Image Analysis - A user's collection of images may be analyzed to identify people's faces within the images, then create clusters of similar faces, where each of the clusters may represent a person. The clusters may be ranked in order of size to determine a relative importance of the associated person to the user. The ranking may be used in many social networking applications to filter and present content that may be of interest to the user. In one use scenario, the clusters may be used to identify images from a second user's image collection, where the identified images may be pertinent or interesting to the first user. The ranking may also be a function of user interactions with the images, as well as other input not related to the images. The ranking may be incrementally updated when new images are added to the user's collection. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211737 | Event Matching in Social Networks - Images from two image databases may be correlated based on identifying a common event, which may be determined by image metadata as well as image content. The image metadata may include timestamps, geotagging metadata, or other tags, as well as input from a social network application in some embodiments. The image content may include analysis to find common persons based on facial recognition or color histograms, common background components, or other common features. The common event may be used to identify images that may be shared among the participants of the event by a social network application, as well as other purposes. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211738 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include means for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and means for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 09-01-2011 |
20110211739 | Identifying a characteristic of an individual utilizing facial recognition and providing a display for the individual - A method may include automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. A system may include means for automatically remotely identifying at least one characteristic of an individual via facial recognition; and means for providing a display for the individual, the display having a content at least partially based on the identified at least one characteristic of the individual. | 09-01-2011 |
20110222742 | Pipeline for generating an intrinsic image - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, identifying shadow edges in the image, computing gradient information for the image and modifying the gradient information relative to the shadow edges for improved performance of computer functionality in an image processing operation. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222743 | MATCHING DEVICE, DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, MATCHING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MATCHING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - A high-accuracy matching result is obtained when a condition of a photographed input image differs from a condition of a photographed registration image. A face matching device including the registration face image, in which a person is photographed, and a photographing condition which corresponds to the registration face image are registered in a registration face image database. The face matching device includes a condition detecting unit, a registration face image selecting unit, and a matching unit. The condition detecting unit detects a photographing condition in the input face image which includes the photographed person. The registration face image selecting unit determines and selects the closest of the photographing condition from the input face image with the photographing conditions of the registration face images based on the determined closeness of the photographing condition. The matching unit performs matching using the registration face image corresponding to the selected photographing condition. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222744 | FACE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING PLURAL FACE IMAGES - A face recognition apparatus and method using plural face images includes detecting a reference face image from an image input for registration in advance, calculating plural face feature information from a frontal face image if the detected reference face image includes the frontal face image, generating plural compared face images using the calculated plural face feature information, and determining whether the input face image matches the generated plural compared face images by comparing the input face image with the plural compared face images. Face images having diverse points of view are generated through single user registration, and thus the face recognition ratio can be heightened. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIOMETRIC DATA CAPTURE - A method and apparatus for biometric data capture are provided. The apparatus includes in interactive head-mounted eyepiece worn by a user that includes an optical assembly through which a user views a surrounding environment and displayed content. The optical assembly comprises a corrective element that corrects the user's view of the surrounding environment and an integrated processor for handling content to the user. An integrated optical sensor captures biometric data when the eyepiece is positioned so that a nearby individual is proximate to the eyepiece. Biometric data is captured using the eyepiece and is transmitted to a remote processing facility for interpretation. The remote processing facility interprets the captured biometric data and generates display content based on the interpretation. This display content is delivered to the eyepiece and displayed to the user. | 09-15-2011 |
20110228990 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image processing apparatus includes an analysis processing unit that quantizes an input image in two levels by replacing an area of the input image where a feature of a subject appears with a first pixel value and replacing an area of the input image where no feature of the subject appears with a second pixel value when the input image is acquired; a storing unit that stores dictionary data including a feature of a plurality of face images quantized by the analysis processing unit; and a face detection processing unit that performs face detection on a detection target image by using the dictionary data read from the storing unit, the detection target data being quantized by the analysis processing unit. | 09-22-2011 |
20110235870 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes an imaging unit configured to perform imaging of one of the object person and a registrant, a first feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate a feature amount of a face of the registrant, a second feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate time series of feature amount of a lip of the registrant, a registration unit configured to register the time series of feature amount of the lip in a database to be associated with the feature amount of the face of the registrant, an identification unit configured to identify the face of the object person, a recognition unit configured to recognize speech content of the object person, and an authentication unit configured to perform personal authentication of the object person based on an identification result of the face and a recognition result of the speech content of the object person. | 09-29-2011 |
20110243397 | SEARCHING DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTIONS USING FACE RECOGNITION - A method for searching a collection of digital images on a display screen, comprising: entering an image review mode and displaying on the display screen a first digital image from the collection of digital images; designating a face contained in the first digital image by using an interactive user interface to indicate a region of the displayed first digital image containing the face; using a processor to execute an automatic face recognition algorithm to identify one or more additional digital images from the collection of digital images that contain the designated face; and displaying the identified one or more additional digital images on the display screen. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243398 | PATTERN RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD THAT REDUCE EFFECTS ON RECOGNITION ACCURACY, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A pattern recognition apparatus that is lightweight for mounting, and reduces the effects of registration conditions or check conditions on recognition accuracy. Similarity sets for respective local features are calculated from a local feature of input data and local features of a plurality of pieces of dictionary data corresponding to the local feature of the input data. Integrated similarities are calculated by integrating a plurality of similarity sets in the local features according to a registration condition or a check condition. Dictionary data corresponding to the input data is identified based on the calculated integrated similarities. | 10-06-2011 |
20110255751 | DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A digital image processing apparatus for easily obtaining information regarding a face, a method of controlling the same, and a recording medium for storing a program for executing the method. The digital image processing apparatus includes a face recognition unit recognizing a face from an image, a face index assignment unit assigning a face index to the recognized face if the face recognized from the image is not a previously recognized face, and a relation index update unit that, if the image includes a second face, updates a relation index corresponding to the number of times the first face and second face appear together in a plurality of images. | 10-20-2011 |
20110268323 | IDENTIFYING UNIQUE OBJECTS IN MULTIPLE IMAGE COLLECTIONS - A method of identifying images containing a unique object found in at least two separate image collections of different users comprising identifying the unique object and providing features for the unique object; at least one user identifying at least two separate image collections produced by separate users that potentially have images of the unique object; and using the features to search the at least two separate collections to identify images that contain the unique object. | 11-03-2011 |
20110299743 | SCALABLE FACE IMAGE RETRIEVAL - A system for identifying individuals in digital images and for providing matching digital images is provided. A set of images that include faces of known individuals is received. Faces are detected in the images and facial components are identified in each face. Visual words corresponding to the facial components are generated, stored, and associated with identifiers of the individuals. At a later time, a user may provide an image that includes the face of one of the known individuals. Visual words are determined from the face of the individual in the provided image and matched against the stored visual words. Images associated with matching visual words are ranked and presented to the user. | 12-08-2011 |
20110305374 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING AND ACCESSING FEATURE VECTORS IN DIGITAL IMAGES - Systems and methods for incorporating restricted access to feature vectors are described. A method is described for storing and accessing feature vectors relating to individuals in digital images. One or more individuals are identified within photos, and feature vectors are generated for individuals in one or more photos. User profiles are downloaded from a database over a network. The feature vectors and downloaded user profiles are grouped. The face tagging system collects tags for the generated grouped feature vectors for generating enhanced user profiles for the individuals, and the enhanced user profiles are stored in a storage resource. | 12-15-2011 |
20110305375 | DEVICE FUNCTION MODIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A modification method and system. The method includes performing a computer processor of a computing system, a facial recognition process of an individual associated with a device. The computer processor retrieves from a detection device, eyewear detection data indicating that the individual is correctly wearing eyewear and tint detection data indicating that the eyewear comprises tinted lenses. In response, the computer processor analyzes results of the facial recognition process, the eyewear detection data, and the tint detection data. The computer processor modifies functions associated with the first device in response to results of the analysis. | 12-15-2011 |
20110311112 | IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An identification device capable of improving identification accuracy. The identification device performs identification according to a face area contained in image data. Feature data is extracted from a face area in each of frames of image data. The extracted feature data is registered in a person database section. Identification is performed through comparison between the feature data registered in the person database section and the extracted feature data. A tracking section identifies an identical face area in consecutive frames. If a face area is identified in a first frame, but a face area in a second frame following the first frame, which is identified by the tracking section as identical to the identified face area in the first frame, is not identified, the extracted feature data associated with the face area in the second frame is registered as additional feature data in the person database section. | 12-22-2011 |
20110317884 | AUTOMATIC APPEAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - An appeal estimation system for estimating a personal appeal of a candidate individual to an observer including a digital image capture device and a soft-copy display. The system further includes a data processing system configured to implement the steps of designating a set of proxy individuals; providing one or more digital images for each proxy individual; determining personal appeal values of each proxy individual to the observer; capturing one or more digital images of the candidate individual using the digital image capture device; determining image similarity metrics between the digital images for the candidate individual and each proxy individual; determining similarity values between the candidate individual and each proxy individual responsive to the determined image similarity metrics; estimating the personal appeal of the candidate individual to the observer by combining the personal appeal values for the proxy individuals; and displaying an indication of the estimated personal appeal on the soft-copy display. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317885 | Automatic and Semi-automatic Image Classification, Annotation and Tagging Through the Use of Image Acquisition Parameters and Metadata - A method for characterizing image contents automatically or semi-automatically using image acquisition parameters and metadata is presented. The method establishes probabilistic and deterministic relationships between different types of metadata and the semantic attributes and contents of images. It furnishes a mechanism that enables the automatic and semi-automatic classification, annotation, tagging, indexing, searching, identification or retrieval of images based on their contents, semantic properties and metadata characteristics. The method uses, but is not limited to, image capture metadata such as focal length, exposure time, relative aperture, flash information, ISO setting, angle of view, subject distance, timestamp, GPS information as well as other forms of metadata, including but not limited to, captions, keywords, headings, tags, comments, remarks, titles which may be automatically, semi-automatically, or manually generated. The present invention can be applied to image databases, web searching, personal search, community search, broad-based or vertical search engines for internet, intranet, extranet or other usages. | 12-29-2011 |
20120002848 | METHOD OF ASSESSING PEOPLE'S SELF-PRESENTATION AND ACTIONS TO EVALUATE PERSONALITY TYPE, BEHAVIORAL TENDENCIES, CREDIBILITY, MOTIVATIONS AND OTHER INSIGHTS THROUGH FACIAL MUSCLE ACTIVITY AND EXPRESSIONS - A method of assessing an individual through facial muscle activity and expressions includes receiving a visual recording stored on a computer-readable medium of an individual's non-verbal responses to a stimulus, the non-verbal response comprising facial expressions of the individual. The recording is accessed to automatically detect and record expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images. The contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings are automatically coded to an action unit, a combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion. The action unit, combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion are analyzed to assess one or more characteristics of the individual to develop a profile of the individual's personality in relation to the objective for which the individual is being assessed. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002849 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE-PICKUP DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image-processing device configured to process image data including at least one face image includes an image-input unit configured to input the image data, a face-detection unit configured to detect the at least one face image from an image frame of the input image data, an importance-determination unit configured to determine importance of each of the at least one detected face image, and a priority-determination unit configured to determine priority of each of the at least one detected face image based on the determined importance. The importance-determination unit determines the importance considering data on the size and position of the detected face image shown in the image frame, and a priority determined by the last time by the priority-determination unit. | 01-05-2012 |
20120008837 | MANUALLY-ASSISTED AUTOMATED INDEXING OF IMAGES USING FACIAL RECOGNITION - The present method relates to the manual assistance for the automated indexing ( | 01-12-2012 |
20120014567 | Wireless Location and Facial/Speaker Recognition System - An integrated wireless location and facial/speaker-recognition system that provides distinct advantages over facial-recognition systems and speaker-recognition systems of the prior art is disclosed. The integrated system is capable of using information from a wireless location system to improve the performance of the facial recognition and speaker recognition. The system is capable of processing photographs and/or audio samples captured by a camera/microphone at a fixed location (e.g., a digital pan-zoom-tilt (PZT) surveillance camera, etc.) as well as those captured by a mobile camera/microphone (e.g., a digital camera and microphone in a smartphone, etc.). The system also features a feedback mechanism by which the location-informed results can be used to improve the system's recognition abilities. | 01-19-2012 |
20120014568 | Speech Recognition, and Related Systems - In one arrangement, information useful in understanding the content of user speech (e.g., phonemes identified by a speech recognition algorithm, data indicating the gender of the speaker, etc.) is determined at an apparatus (e.g., a cell phone), and accompanies speech data sent from that apparatus. (Steganographic encoding of the speech data can be employed to convey this information.) A receiving device can use this accompanying information to better understand the content of the speech. A great variety of other features and arrangements—some dealing with imagery rather than audio—are also detailed. | 01-19-2012 |
20120027267 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL - According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of controlling the operation of a mobile terminal includes displaying, on a display module of the mobile terminal, a stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image using a disparity between left-eye and right-eye images, receiving a touch input within the stereoscopic 3D image, determining whether a position of the touch input is received within a first area, a second area or a third area, wherein the right-eye image is displayed in the first area, the left-eye image is displayed in the second area, and the third area is the overlapping area of the left-eye and right-eye images, and correcting a touch-sensing area on the display module according to the position of the received touch input, wherein the touch-sensing area receives a touch for selecting the stereoscopic 3D image. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027268 | Reference Objects and/or Facial/Body Recognition - Five embodiments are disclosed. The first may generate and/or manage reference objects in images. The second may use the reference objects to create 3-D simulations of landscapes, urban settings, architectural models, land management presentations, disaster analysis and/or interactive games. The third may use the reference objects and/or previously presented object schematics to construct provably impartial mug shot folders for law enforcement, alter security processes to support communication of object schematics with a database used to identify people, and/or modify that database to use object schematics. The fourth may access an image with a focal length spread to generate one or more derived images to find the reference images and the items of interest for human facial/body recognition based upon realistic parameters of the reference objects to create/alter the object schematics. The fifth may implement combinations of two or more of the previous four embodiments. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027269 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND MODIFYING A PERSONALIZED FACE CHART - A system and method for providing a personalized digital face chart. A digital image of a subject's face is obtained. A facial region of the digital image is identified from a background region of the digital image. A line drawing is generated based on at least the facial region of the digital image. The line drawing is stylized to generate a personalized digital face chart. A user interface configured to accept at least one face chart modification from a user is provided. The personalized digital face chart is modified based on the at least one face chart modification. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027270 | Method and System of Person Identification by Facial Image - A method to recognize a facial image is described. An input facial image is normalized by scaling and rotation angle using methods of eye pupil centers detection. The input facial image is further normalized by lighting intensity. Template images are obtained either by the processing of certain images taken from different face positions, or by a preliminary reconstruction of a 3D face model based on stereo-pair images. Using the 3D model template, facial images are generated at different rotation angles. Distances between the input facial image and the template image are calculated from the Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) features, defined by overlapped blocks of these images. The facial image is recognized based on these distances. | 02-02-2012 |
20120039513 | LEVERAGING SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR MEDIA SHARING - Social media account UIs are disclosed to allow users to easily manage all social media accounts. Photos are automatically shared based on image recognition with social networking contacts appearing in the photos. Movies are automatically created from related social media clips, and videos can be generated by a user and uploaded to the user's social media accounts with a single click. | 02-16-2012 |
20120039514 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person. | 02-16-2012 |
20120039515 | Method and system for classifying scene for each person in video - Described is a method of classifying a scene for each person in a video, the method including: detecting a face within input video frames; detecting a shot change of the input video frames; extracting a person representation frame in the shot; performing a person clustering in the extracted person representation frame based on time information; detecting a scene change by separating a person portion from a background based on face extraction information, and comparing the person portion and the background; and merging similar clusters from the extracted person representation frame and performing a scene clustering for each person. | 02-16-2012 |
20120063648 | PROCESSING AN IMAGE OF A PERSONS FACE - An image contains a representation of a person's face, where the image has plural points each comprising multiple components of a color space. For each of the plural points, at least two of the color space components are combined to produce a respective aggregate value. The image is processed to convert at least some of the points of the image based on the calculated aggregate values. | 03-15-2012 |
20120063649 | USER-SPECIFIC ATTRIBUTE CUSTOMIZATION - User-specific attribute customization is provided by an entertainment system including a user identification module to identify one or more users within an operative range of the entertainment system, and a dominant attribute module to automatically express exclusive user-specific attributes of a dominant user when the dominant user is one of two or more identified users within the operative range of the entertainment system. The entertainment system further includes a cooperative attribute module to automatically express merged user-specific attributes of a first user and a second user when the first user and the second user are two of two or more identified users within the operative range of the entertainment system. | 03-15-2012 |
20120063650 | Methods of Storing Image Files - A method and apparatus for organizing digital images that contain a persons face is disclosed. A database of known faces allows the faces in the images to be identified. The names of the people identified in the image are used in naming the image files and in naming the path to the image files. | 03-15-2012 |
20120063651 | REAL-TIME PLAYER TRACKING - Some implementations of the invention provide methods, devices and systems for acquiring patron data in real time. A plurality of networked cameras may be used to acquire information regarding casino patrons. The cameras may include “smart cameras” having an integrated machine vision system. The real-time information may be used to populate one or more databases of a player loyalty program. Patron information may also be used to determine trends associated with patron demographics, with levels of a player loyalty program, etc. Some implementations of the invention involve monitoring patron event data and determining when predetermined events of interest occur. When a defined event occurs, patron data relating to the associated patron may be monitored, analyzed and used to populate one or more player loyalty databases. In some implementations, patron data acquired prior to the time of the defined event may also be analyzed and used. | 03-15-2012 |
20120070041 | System And Method For Face Verification Using Video Sequence - Face verification is performed using video data. The two main modules are face image capturing and face verification. In face image capturing, good frontal face images are captured from input video data. A frontal face quality score discriminates between frontal and profile faces. In face verification, a local binary pattern histogram is selected as the facial feature descriptor for its high discriminative power and computational efficiency. Chi-Square (χ | 03-22-2012 |
20120070042 | Automatic Face Detection and Identity Masking In Images, and Applications Thereof - A method and system of identity masking to obscure identities corresponding to face regions in an image is disclosed. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image. Then an identity masker is used to process the detected face regions by identity masking techniques in order to obscure identities corresponding to the regions. For example, a detected face region can be blurred as if it is in motion by a motion blur algorithm, such that the blurred region can not be recognized as the original identity. Or the detected face region can be replaced by a substitute facial image by a face replacement algorithm to obscure the corresponding identity. | 03-22-2012 |
20120076367 | AUTO TAGGING IN GEO-SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a social networking system automatically tags one or more users to an image file by creating a list of potential matches, and selecting a subset of potential matches based on location, asking a first user to confirm the subset of potential matches, and tagging one or more matched users to the image file. | 03-29-2012 |
20120076368 | FACE IDENTIFICATION BASED ON FACIAL FEATURE CHANGES - A face is detected within a series of imaging frames. One or more changes to a facial feature of the face are detected in progressive frames of the series. The face is identified based on the detected changes. | 03-29-2012 |
20120087551 | DECONVOLUTION OF DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for deconvolution of digital images includes obtaining a degraded image from a digital sensor, a processor accepting output from the digital sensor and recognizing a distorted element within the image. The distorted element is compared with a true shape of the element to produce a degrading function. The degrading function is deconvolved from at least a portion of the image to improve image quality of the image. A method of indirectly decoding a barcode includes obtaining an image of a barcode using an optical sensor in a mobile computing device, the image comprising barcode marks and a textual character. The textual character is optically recognized and an image degrading characteristic is identified from the textual character. Compensating for the image degrading characteristic renders previously undecodable barcode marks decodable. A system for deconvolution of digital images is also included. | 04-12-2012 |
20120087552 | FACIAL RECOGNITION METHOD FOR ELIMINATING THE EFFECT OF NOISE BLUR AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS - A facial recognition method for eliminating the effect of noise blur and environmental variations is provided, applicable to a data processing apparatus, to determine whether a current-face-image matches a reference-face-image or not. According to the method, Gaussian Noise blur Reduction or another noise blur reduction method is performed on the current-face-image and the reference-face-image. Furthermore, the current-face-image and the reference-face-image are respectively divided into a plurality of blocks, so as to derive feature-vector sets representing the current-face-image and the reference-face-image. Finally a dynamic threshold value is determined according to environmental variations to be compared with the difference of the feature-vector sets, so as to determine whether a current-face-image matches a reference-face-image. | 04-12-2012 |
20120093375 | IDENTIFYING IMAGES USING FACE RECOGNITION - A method includes identifying a named entity, retrieving images associated with the named entity, and using a face detection algorithm to perform face detection on the retrieved images to detect faces in the retrieved images. At least one representative face image from the retrieved images is identified, and the representative face image is used to identify one or more additional images representing the at least one named entity. | 04-19-2012 |
20120106806 | Face Recognition in Video Content - The subject disclosure relates to face recognition in video. Face detection data in frames of input data are used to generate face galleries, which are labeled and used in recognizing faces throughout the video. Metadata that associates the video frame and the face are generated and maintained for subsequent identification. Faces other than those found by face detection may be found by face tracking, in which facial landmarks found by the face detection are used to track a face over previous and/or subsequent video frames. Once generated, the maintained metadata may be accessed to efficiently determine the identity of a person corresponding to a viewer-selected face. | 05-03-2012 |
20120114196 | Methods for Person's Verification Using Photographs on Identification Documents - One embodiment of a method of present invention provides for collecting personal information from a requester, obtaining a digital copy of a photo ID from the requester, isolating requester's photograph from the photo ID, obtaining images from computer network information sources, comparing requester's photograph with the images obtained from computer network information sources, and calculating a statistical rating of a likelihood that requester's photograph and images obtained from said one or more computer network information sources display the same person. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114197 | BUILDING A PERSON PROFILE DATABASE - Names of entities, such as people, in an image may be identified automatically. Visually similar images of entities are retrieved, including text proximate to the visually similar images. The collected text is mined for names of entities, and the detected names are analyzed. A name may be associated with the entity in the image, based on the analysis. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114198 | FACIAL IMAGE GENDER IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A facial image gender identification system is provided. The system includes a face database, an image capturing unit, a gender identification data generating unit, and a gender identification unit. The face database is for storing gender characteristic values and gender data corresponding to each of a plurality of training facial images respectively. The image capturing unit is for capturing at least one facial image. The gender identification data generating unit, coupled to the image capturing unit and the face database, is for receiving the facial image from the image capturing unit and calculating global feature values and local feature values of the facial image. The gender identification unit, coupled to the gender identification data generating unit and the face database, is for determining a gender identification result according the global feature values and local feature values, and the gender characteristic values and gender data stored in the face database. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114199 | IMAGE AUTO TAGGING METHOD AND APPLICATION - A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provides the ability to automatically tag a photograph. First photographs are obtained. Each of the first photographs is associated with a tag that uniquely identifies a user. Based on the tag and the first photographs, a single facial identification record (FIR) is generated for the user. A second photograph is uploaded. Profile based FIRs for the user that uploaded the second photograph is obtained. A matching FIR from the profile based FIRs that match a second face in the second photograph is obtained. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114200 | ADDITION OF IMMERSIVE INTERACTION CAPABILITIES TO OTHERWISE UNMODIFIED 3D GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS - A method and system for enabling interaction with unmodified 3D graphics applications using face-tracking. The method includes determining a position of a viewer using face-tracking component and transforming a viewer's position to application coordinates. The application coordinates are passed to a wrapper library around a 3D graphics application's library. The 3D graphic application's instruction stream is altered to display 3D graphics on a display with scenes rendered as seen from the viewer's position. The 3D graphics application is forced to load a wrapper library which overloads functions of the underlying 3D graphics application library. In this way, the 3D graphics application can be an existing unmodified 3D graphics application provided on a computer system. | 05-10-2012 |
20120121142 | ULTRA-LOW DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION FOR FACE RECOGNITION UNDER VARYING EXPRESSIONS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for identifying an unknown subject using face recognition. In particular, upon receiving a plurality of images depicting a subject, the method may include deriving and storing a common component image and a gross innovation component image associated with the subject, wherein the subject can later be identified in a new image using these two stored images. The common component image may capture features that are common to all of the received images depicting the subject, whereas the gross innovation component image may capture a combination of the features that are unique to each of the received images. The method may further include deriving and storing a low-rank data matrix associated with the received images, wherein the low-rank data matrix may capture any illumination differences and/or occlusions associated with the received images. | 05-17-2012 |
20120134547 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A DRIVER'S REAL FACE IN A VEHICLE - A method of authenticating whether a capture image is a real face of a driver in a vehicle includes first capturing an image of a driver's face with a light being turned on in a first image and with a light being turned off in a second image, respectively. Subsequent, a difference image is extracted between the first image data captured with the light being turned on and a second image data captured with the light being turned off. Then a boundary line is extracted from the difference image and a determination is made whether the boundary line is a curve or not. If the boundary line is determined to be a curve, the captured image is determined by a control unit to be the real face of the driver. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134548 | Smartphone-Based Methods and Systems - Methods and arrangements involving portable devices are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another arrangement utilizes the camera of a smartphone to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some of the detailed technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140993 | SECURE BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION FROM AN INSECURE DEVICE - Biometric authentication is enhanced by prompting an individual to perform an action challenge. For example, when an individual provides a facial picture for facial recognition to access secure data the individual may be prompted to provide a second picture of the individual performing an action. In one case, the individual is prompted to provide a second picture with an eye closed or an open mouth. The action challenge improves security by preventing attackers from spoofing an individual's biometric information. The enhanced biometric authentication may be used on mobile devices, such as mobile phones and laptop computers, to provide access to secure data, such as bank account information. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140994 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises a face detection unit configured to periodically perform face detection processing of detecting a face area of a person from an image; an authentication unit configured to periodically perform personal authentication processing for the detected face area; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a determination criterion to select a face area as a target of the personal authentication processing from the detected face areas, wherein the authentication unit performs the personal authentication processing at a cycle longer than that of the face detection processing, and when the face detection unit detects the face areas from a plurality of images, selects a face area complying with the determination criterion calculated by the calculation unit from the face areas of the plurality of images as the target of the personal authentication processing. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140995 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication terminal may include a processing unit that includes information identifying another communication terminal as path information in data when the data is directly transmitted from its own communication terminal to the other communication terminal, and a transmitting unit that directly transmits the data in which the path information is included by the processing unit to the other communication terminal. | 06-07-2012 |
20120148117 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACIAL IDENTIFICATION - The present invention is a system for providing facial identification, which includes a photography unit, a facial identification unit, a memory unit, and a controller. More specifically, the photography unit photographs a driver's face and the memory unit stores a user image or one or more image feature values which are registered to a first user ID. A user is identified by the facial identification unit which compares the driver's face photographed by the photography unit with a user image or one or more image feature values stored in the memory unit. If a positive identification cannot be made, however, a user input unit which is configured to receive a signal from user which requests that the driver's face photographed face be registered as a user image or one or more image feature values of the first user ID. | 06-14-2012 |
20120148118 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING IMAGES AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME - An image classifying apparatus may include a database constructor which constructs database by detecting face region from received classification target image, extracting face feature descriptor from detected face region, extracting a costume feature descriptor using position information of detected face region, and storing face feature descriptor and costume feature descriptor in database, a first processor which generates representative image model by comparing face feature descriptor and costume feature descriptor of classification target image stored in database based on a received representative image to search for a similar image and registering similar image in a representative image model for each person, and second processor which compares additional information of representative image stored in representative image model for each person and additional information of classification target image stored in database and classifies image for each person based on similarity measured by adding up weights corresponding to similarities according to comparison results. | 06-14-2012 |
20120148119 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING THE PERCEIVED AGE OF AN INDIVIDUAL - A system wherein various facial properties/features are observed and wherein such facial properties are given numerical representations based upon predetermined criteria. The selected numerical representations are then calculated in a manner that results in a perceived age of the individual. Cosmetic and/or surgical alterations or enhancements can then be made physically to the individual and/or via graphic representation to the individual's face, in accordance with changes based upon the numerical representations given for one or more of the observed features. | 06-14-2012 |
20120148120 | INFORMATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION CONTROL METHOD FOR AN INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION CONTROL PROGRAM - To make it possible to significantly reduce a burden on a user at a time of a classification of image files added or updated, for example, and thus facilitate association with other content data. An image detector/register ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120148121 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CREATING PHOTO ALBUM - A device for automatically creating a photo album is disclosed. A face detection unit detects faces from an inputted image, an inclination determining unit determines an inclination of the inputted image based on inclinations of the faces, a temporary trimming reference area determining unit determines a trimming reference area containing one or more of the faces, a temporary trimming reference point determining unit determines a trimming reference point in the trimming reference area, an image rotating unit rotates the inputted image depending on the inclination of the inputted image, a trimming unit sets in the inputted image a layout frame of an image insertion area of a photo album template such that the layout reference point is positioned on the trimming reference point and the trimming reference area is contained within the layout frame and carries out trimming, and a template composition unit combines the trimmed area with the template. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155717 | IMAGE SEARCH INCLUDING FACIAL IMAGE - A method and apparatus is provided for performing image matching. The method includes comparing a face in a first image to a face in each of a set of stored images to identify one or more face-matching images that include similar facial features to the face in the first image. Next, the first image is compared to each of the face-matching images to identify one or more resulting images that are spatially similar to the first image. Accordingly, the resulting image or images have similar facial features and similar overall or background features to those in the first image. For example, if the query image is of a playground with a child swinging on a swing, the image matching technique can find other images of the same child in a setting that appears similar. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155718 | FACE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A face recognition apparatus and method. Sub-images having different face sizes are generated using a received face image of a person to be identified. Feature vectors of the sub-images are generated and observation nodes are generated based on the feature vectors. The observation nodes corresponding to the sub-images are compared with stored reference nodes of sub-images of a registered person on a face size by face size basis to calculate similarity scores between the observation nodes and the reference nodes. State nodes are generated based on the respective similarity scores of the face sizes, the observation and state nodes are compared, and the state nodes are compared to perform face recognition. This improves face recognition performance and face recognition speed. Face recognition performance robust to facial expression variation or type information is achieved by performing I-shaped curvature Gabor filtering on a plurality of sub-images based on the eye distance. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155719 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UPPER BODY - Disclosed is a method of detecting an upper body. The method includes detecting an omega candidate area including a shape formed of a face and a shoulder line of a human from a target image, cutting the target image into the upper body candidate area including the omega candidate area, detecting a human face from the upper body candidate area, and judging whether the upper body of the human is included in the target image according to the result of detecting the human face. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHOTOGRAPH FINDING - Digital image data including discrete photographic images of a variety of different subjects, times, and so forth, are collected and analyzed to identify specific features in the photographs. In an embodiment of the invention, distinctive markers are distributed to aid in the identification of particular subject matter. Facial recognition may also be employed. The digital image data is maintained in a database and quarried in response to search requests. The search requests include criteria specifying any feature category or other identifying information, such as date, time, and location that each photograph was taken, associated with each photograph. Candidate images are provided for review by requesters, who may select desired images for purchase or downloading. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163679 | DYNAMIC PROFILE CREATION IN RESPONSE TO FACIAL RECOGNITION - The use of an image capture device with a IPTV Set Top Box allows for the STB to detect a plurality of viewers, and to then provide access conditions that are appropriate to the detected viewers. In cases where a viewer has not been profiled this may include creating a profile for the user, while in cases where a plurality of users are detected, a set of access rights and permissions determined in accordance with the plurality of users can be provided. | 06-28-2012 |
20120170817 | VEHICLE APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A vehicle apparatus control system and method thereof are disclosed. The vehicle apparatus control system comprises a data storage module, an image capturing module, a face recognition module and a control module. The data storage module stores multiple registered users' facial feature parameters and vehicle apparatus setting parameters, and integration setting data. The face recognition module detects several facial images contained in the captured image and recognizes the users corresponding to the face images according to the facial feature parameters stored in data storage module. The control module set a vehicle apparatus according to the integration setting data, and the corresponding users' vehicle apparatus setting parameters. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170818 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A personal authentication apparatus comprises an input unit configured to input image data; a face detection unit configured to detect a face region of a person included in the image data input by the input unit, and to detect feature data from the detected face region; a facial expression determination unit configured to determine a facial expression from the face region detected by the face detection unit; a storage unit configured to store feature data used to authenticate a person in correspondence with respective facial expressions of a plurality of faces; a selection unit configured to select feature data corresponding to the facial expression determined by the facial expression determination unit from the storage unit; and an authentication unit configured to authenticate a person by comparing the feature data of the face region detected by the face detection unit, and the feature data selected by the selection unit. | 07-05-2012 |
20120183181 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a display unit, a detecting unit, a timing unit, a judging unit, a distance calculating unit, and a controller. The display unit displays desired information. The detecting unit detects nearby persons and generates a signal when at least one unauthorized person is detected within a predetermined distance of the electronic device. The timing unit receives the detecting signal and times duration during which the detecting signal is continuously generated. The judging unit judges whether the timed duration reaches a predetermined time period and generating a distance calculating signal if the timed duration reaches the time period. The distance calculating unit calculates the distance between the at least one unauthorized person and the electronic device in response to the distance calculating signal. The controller adjusts the display parameters of the display unit according to the calculated distance. | 07-19-2012 |
20120207358 | Illumination Detection Using Classifier Chains - A face illumination normalization method includes acquiring a digital image including a face that appears to be illuminated unevenly. One or more uneven illumination classifier programs are applied to the face data to determine the presence of the face within the digital image and/or the uneven illumination condition of the face. The uneven illumination condition may be corrected to thereby generate a corrected face image appearing to have more uniform illumination, for example, to enhance face recognition. | 08-16-2012 |
20120213419 | PATTERN RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING LOCAL BINARY PATTERN CODES, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A pattern recognition method using Maximization of Mutual Information (MMI)-based Local Binary Pattern (LBP) codes transforms training face images into LBPs and generates LBP-transformed feature vectors based on positions of image pixels. Thereafter, a dimension of each image is reduced by selecting feature vectors maximizing mutual information with a class label vector from among N feature vectors, 256 LBP frequency feature vectors are obtained by performing an LBP code-based histogram transform per image, and Optimal LBP (OLBP) codes maximizing mutual information with the class label vector for the 256 LBP frequency feature vectors are selected. These selected OLBP codes are codes guaranteeing minimization of a classification error rate, and by applying the selected OLBP codes to pattern recognition, a better recognition performance than a conventional local kernel-based image representation method and an enhanced recognition speed due to a reduced number of LBP codes are provided. | 08-23-2012 |
20120213420 | FACIAL RECOGNITION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing facial recognition. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a first digital photograph. A first face template is generated for each face detected in the first digital photograph. Second user identifiers that are associated with a first user identifier are determined. A digital photograph index of photographs, user identifiers, and areas in the digital photographs in which a face of a user identified by user identifier is located is accessed. Second user identifiers are selected, and second face templates are generated from the faces of the user the digital photographs. First face templates that match second face templates are identified, and for each first face template that matches a second face template, data is generated specifying the area in the first digital photograph in which the face of the second user is located. | 08-23-2012 |
20120213421 | Method and System for Searching Images With Figures and Recording Medium Storing Metadata of Image - A method and a system for searching images with figures and a recording medium storing metadata of image are provided. The searching method is divided into an image analysis stage and an image search stage. In the image analysis stage, figures between images are compared with each other and assigned with an identity respectively. A representative image of each identity is then evaluated from the image collection. In the image search stage, the representative images are displayed for user to select some of them as a searching criterion, so as to search and display the images matching the searching criterion in the image collection. Accordingly, the images required by user can be found through intelligent analysis of figures, intuitive definition of searching criterion, and simple comparison of identities so that both time and effort of organization for searching images with figures can be substantially saved. | 08-23-2012 |
20120213422 | FACE RECOGNITION IN DIGITAL IMAGES - A solution for face recognition. The solution includes detecting a face from a digital image constructed of multiple pixels, selecting a neighbor-hood for a pixel under observation, obtaining a combination of pixel values weighted with at least one set of coefficients, and determining information on face similarity between the observed face and at least one face. | 08-23-2012 |
20120219192 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A SESSION AT A SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL, AND A SELF-SERVICE TERMINAL - A method for controlling a session of a self-service terminal utilizes an image capture device that captures image frames for identification of a user's face. If a face is identified, a model is temporarily associated with that face. The face is monitored until the user closes the session, thereby generating possible events. When the user leaves the terminal during the session, or a new face assumes the position formerly held by the previous face, the result of the comparison results in the closing of the session. In the case that the same user remains in place until the end of the session, the result of the comparison allows the reduction of requests for confirmation of user identification data. | 08-30-2012 |
20120230554 | Face Recognition with Combined PCA-Based Datasets - A representation framework is determined in a face recognition method for a first collection of facial images including at least principle component analysis (PCA) features. A representation of said first collection is stored using the representation framework. A modified representation framework is determined based on statistical properties of original facial image samples of a second collection of facial images and the stored representation of the first collection. The first and second collections are combined without using original facial image samples. A representation of the combined image collection (super-collection) is stored using the modified representation framework. | 09-13-2012 |
20120237089 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a segmentation unit configured to segment image data into a plurality of segments to create a plurality of segmented image data, a detection unit configured to execute face detection processing for detecting a face area from image data before being segmented and each of the plurality of segmented image data, a recognition unit configured to execute recognition processing for determining whether the face detected by the detection unit is a face of a registered person, in each of the plurality of segmented image data, and a control unit configured to control whether to cause the recognition unit to execute the recognition processing as to each of the plurality of segmented image data depending on a result of the face detection in the image data before being segmented. | 09-20-2012 |
20120237090 | MUSIC RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A photograph classification unit classifies the photographs for each scene in a music-feature information determination unit. A photograph feature acquisition unit identifies a feature of the photograph based on additional information of the photograph and a result of face recognition of the image. A tempo determination unit determines a tempo of music based on a time zone of image capturing, a range of the number of people captured in a photograph, the degree of smile, activities, etc. A melody determination unit determines information that confines a title, a feature value, a genre, etc., based on an event, a time zone, and a season at the time of image capturing, a city and a country in which the image capturing has occurred, etc. Based on the determined feature of the music, a music data output unit extracts and then presents matching music. | 09-20-2012 |
20120243750 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR OUTPUTTING A GROUP OF IMAGES - There is described an apparatus for outputting a group of images for display, the group being taken from a plurality of images, each image in the plurality of images having a face located therein, the apparatus comprising a processor configured to: retrieve a set of images from a storage medium, the set of images containing at least the plurality of images from which the group of images to be displayed is selected; identify the face in each of the plurality of images; identify variable features on the face in each of the plurality of images; establish the group of images in accordance with a measure of the dissimilarity between the variable features in the plurality of images; and output the group of images for display. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243751 | BASELINE FACE ANALYSIS - Facial information is collected on a person and used to analyze affect. Facial information can be used to determine a baseline face which characterizes the default expression that a person has on their face. Deviations from this baseline face can be used to evaluate affect and further be used to infer mental states. Facial images can be automatically scored for various expressions including smiles, frowns, and squints. Image descriptors and image classifiers can be used during this baseline face analysis. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243752 | IMAGE PICK-UP APPARATUS HAVING A FUNCTION OF RECOGNIZING A FACE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS - It is judged whether or not a human face detecting mode is set. When it is determined that the human face detecting mode is set, a two-dimensional face detecting process is performed to detect a human face. When it is determined that a human face has not been detected in the two-dimensional face detecting process, a three-dimensional face detecting process is performed to detect a human face. In addition, when an animal face detecting mode is set, a three-dimensional face detecting process is performed to detect a face of an animal corresponding to the set detecting mode. | 09-27-2012 |
20120250950 | Face Recognition Based on Spatial and Temporal Proximity - In one embodiment, a social networking system determines one or more individuals matching one or more faces in an image file of a still image or a video sequence, associated with a first user based on the one or more individuals' spatial and temporal proximity to the image file, and presents the matched individuals to the first user. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250951 | ADDING PRIVACY PROTECTION TO PHOTO UPLOADING/ TAGGING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - An individual is identified in a photograph. A portion of the photograph is temporarily blurred to prevent the individual from being recognized. Once consent is received for the tag, the blur is removed. However, if consent is not received, the blur remains. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250952 | ADAPTIVE FACE RECOGNITION USING ONLINE LEARNING - In one embodiment an electronic device comprises an input/output module, a memory coupled to the input/output module, and logic to store a first image of a face in the memory module, associate an identity with the first image of a face, subsequently collect a second image of a face, determine a correlation between features on the first image of a face and the second image of a face, and store the correlation between the first image and the second image. Other embodiments may be described. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250953 | DOOR PHONE DEVICE, VISITOR EVALUATION METHOD, AND DOOR PHONE SYSTEM - A door phone device includes a facial characteristics acquisition section which acquires facial characteristics from an image in which a visitor is imaged, an occupation attributes acquisition section which acquires occupation attributes of the visitor which has the same facial characteristics as the facial characteristics which are acquired by the facial characteristics acquisition section, and an action control section which determines an action according to the occupation attributes which are acquired by the occupation attributes acquisition section using registration information where the occupation attributes and the action are made to correspond in advance. | 10-04-2012 |
20120257797 | BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION - A method for biometric identification for use with a computing device is provided herein. The method includes capturing a temporal sequence of images of the face of a user at different locations within a three-dimensional interaction space. The method further includes extracting one or more face descriptors from the images and generating a biometric template compiling the face descriptors. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257798 | METHOD OF PERFORMING FACIAL RECOGNITION USING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FUZZY LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS - The method of performing facial recognition using genetic algorithm-modified fuzzy linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is based on the Fisherface LDA, with a modification being made in calculation of the membership function. Particularly, the membership function is computed using a pair of parameters α and β, which are optimized by a genetic algorithm in order to minimize the recognition error. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257799 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image recognition apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a feature quantity for each local area from an input image, a conversion unit configured to convert the feature quantity extracted by the extraction unit into a feature quantity indicating a degree with respect to an attribute for each local area, a verification unit configured to verify the feature quantity converted by the conversion unit against a feature quantity of a registered image, and an identification unit configured to identify whether the input image is identical to the registered image by integrating the verification result for each local area acquired by the verification unit. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257800 | Face recognition system and method using face pattern words and face pattern bytes - The present invention provides a novel system and method for identifying individuals and for face recognition utilizing facial features for face identification. The system and method of the invention comprise creating facial features or face patterns called face pattern words and face pattern bytes for face identification. The invention also provides for pattern recognitions for identification other than face recognition. The invention further provides a means for identifying individuals based on visible and/or thermal images of those individuals by utilizing computer software implemented by instructions on a computer or computer system and a computer readable medium containing instructions on a computer system for face recognition and identification. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257801 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device which stores face thumbnail indexing information including face images and time stamp information, extracting module configure to assign time zones to a video content data and to extract face images belonging to each time zone based on a time stamp information, classifying module configure to classify facial images of the same person from the extracted facial images, calculating module configure to calculate a frequency of appearance of each classified facial image, and facial image indication module configure to display a list of the facial images included in the facial image indexing information in a facial image indication in a two-dimensional display area, the facial image indication having time-zone-specific display areas in columns corresponding to the time zones, each facial image displayed in each time-zone-specific display area being displayed in a size based on the frequency of appearance. | 10-11-2012 |
20120269405 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus includes a face detection unit configured to detect a face of a person from an image; a storage unit configured to store dictionary data which holds information relating to faces and line-of-sight correction data corresponding to respective persons; an authentication unit configured to authenticate a person corresponding to the face detected by the face detection unit, using the information relating to faces in the dictionary data; a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect information relating to a line of sight from the face detected by the face detection unit; and a line-of-sight correction unit configured to correct the information relating to a line of sight detected by the line-of-sight detection unit, using the line-of-sight correction data in the dictionary data corresponding to the person authenticated by the authentication unit. | 10-25-2012 |
20120275666 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CO-OCCURRENCE GROUPS OF IMAGES - A system and a method are disclosed that determine images with co-occurrence groups of individuals from an image collection. A value of a similarity metric is computed for each pair of images of the image collection, the value of the similarity metric being computed based on a comparison of the number of individuals in common between the images of the pair and the total number of individuals identified in both images of the pair. The collection of images is clustered based on the computed values of the similarity metric. At least one co-occurrence group is determined based on the results of the clustering, where a co-occurrence group is determined as a cluster of images that have a similar combination of individuals. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275667 | CALIBRATION FOR STEREOSCOPIC CAPTURE SYSTEM - Apparatus and a method for generating a rectified image. First pixel information corresponding to a first image is received from a first imager. Second pixel information corresponding to a second image is received from a second imager. A plurality of facial feature points of a portrait in each of the first and second images are identified. A fundamental matrix is generated based on the detected facial features. An essential matrix is generated based on the fundamental matrix. Rotational and translational information corresponding to the first and second imagers are generated based on the essential matrix. The rotational and translational information are applied to at least one of the first and second images to generate at least one rectified image. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275668 | HANDHELD FACIAL SKIN ANALYZING DEVICE - A handheld facial analyzing device based on estimating the characteristics of human facial skin includes an image capturing unit, a memory unit, a display unit, a processing unit, and a user interface. The processing unit receives an instruction from the user interface corresponding to a position on the image data displayed by the display unit and generates a facial analysis result having information on skin roughness and wrinkles from the gray-scale image data corresponding to the image data in accordance to the position in the instruction. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281886 | STAGED ELEMENT CLASSIFICATION - Various examples are disclosed herein that relate to staged element classification. For example, one disclosed example provides a method of classifying elements by forming elements for classification into a plurality of first-level sets in a first stage, generating primary groups within the first-level sets based on element similarity, forming a plurality of second-level sets from the first-level sets in a second stage, generating secondary groups within the second-level sets based on element similarity, and merging a plurality of the primary and/or secondary groups based on element similarity. | 11-08-2012 |
20120281887 | IMAGE SORTING DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SAID PROGRAM - Image group feature information indicating features of an image group composed of a plurality of images is calculated for each image group and, based on the calculated image group feature information and information indicating features of events into which image groups are to be classified, images are classified by image group. | 11-08-2012 |
20120281888 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a viewer image generating module, a viewer recognition module, a group extraction module, and an image display module. The viewer image generating module generates an image of a viewer by capturing the image of the viewer. The viewer recognition module detects a face image in the generated image and recognizes the viewer corresponding to the detected face image. The group extraction module extracts, from a plurality of groups each including still images, groups including at least one of a still image including the face image of the viewer and a still image imported by the viewer. The image display module displays still images in the extracted groups on a screen. | 11-08-2012 |
20120288165 | SURVEILLANCE-BASED HIGH-RESOLUTION FACIAL RECOGNITION - Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software that utilizes imagery from a single high-resolution camera to capture images, locate individuals, and provide images to a facial recognition process. Some embodiments also include prioritization and filtering that choose which captured images from a stream of images to process and when to process them when there are many images to be processed. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288166 | ASSOCIATION AND PREDICTION IN FACIAL RECOGNITION - Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to address intrapersonal variations encountered during facial recognition. For example, some implementations employ an identity data set having a plurality of images representing different intrapersonal settings. A predictive model may associate one or more input images with one or more images in the identity data set. Some implementations may use an appearance-prediction approach to compare two images by predicting an appearance of at least one of the images under an intrapersonal setting of the other image. Further, some implementations may utilize a likelihood-prediction approach for comparing images that generates a classifier for an input image based on an association of an input image with the identity data set. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288167 | POSE-ROBUST RECOGNITION - Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to address intrapersonal variations encountered during facial recognition. For example, some implementations transform at least a portion of an image from a first intrapersonal condition to a second intrapersonal condition to enable more accurate comparison with another image. Some implementations may determine a pose category of an input image and may modify at least a portion of the input image to a different pose category of another image for comparing the input image with the other image. Further, some implementations provide for compression of data representing at least a portion of the input image to decrease the dimensionality of the data. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288168 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR ENHANCING APPEAREANCE OF A FACE - The embodiments herein provide a system and a method for enhancing the appearance of the image of a user by analyzing the facial characteristics of an image of a user in real time. The system includes an image capturing device for capturing an image of a user and transmitting the captured image to the image processing unit for analyzing the facial characteristics of the image. The image processing unit includes a segmentation module and a marking module for marking the anomalies in the facial characteristics of the captured image to estimate an age of a skin in the captured image of the user. The image processing unit performs a segmentation of the face region of the image to extract the facial features to detect the skin anomalies and removes the skin anomalies to provide an enhanced image based on an estimated age of the user. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294495 | RETRIEVING CONTACT INFORMATION BASED ON IMAGE RECOGNITION SEARCHES - A system and method for retrieving contact information based on image recognition searches is disclosed. A requestor takes a picture of a user or retrieves a storage image of a user and transmits the image to an image recognition module. The image recognition module identifies the user and determines whether the requestor can receive access to the user's contact information based on permission rules. For example, the permission rule includes a requirement that the user and the requestor be sufficiently related on a social graph generated by a social network application. The permission rules can also include a requirement that the requestor have a predetermined proximity to the image. Once the permission rules are satisfied, the image recognition module transmits the user's contact information to the requestor. | 11-22-2012 |
20120294496 | FACE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND FACE RECOGNITION METHOD - A degree of similarity is calculated by comparing registration face images of a person registered in a face dictionary with face images included in stored images, and the face image in which the calculated degree of similarity falls within a predetermined range where the calculated degree of similarity is not excessively high is extracted from a face image list. The extracted image is registered in a face dictionary, whereby easily producing the face dictionary that can efficiently retrieve the person from many images. | 11-22-2012 |
20120300991 | IMAGE PREPROCESSING - A method, performed by a software process executing on a computer system, includes accessing a digital image comprising a plurality of pixels. The method also includes determining whether one or more pixels bounding a first rectangular sub-region of a predetermined size within the digital image satisfy a specified criterion. If a predetermined percentage of bounding pixels satisfy the specified criterion, the method assumes that all pixels within the first rectangular sub-region also satisfy the specified criterion. The method further includes selectively executing an image analysis algorithm on the digital image using the assumption that all pixels within the rectangular sub-region also satisfy the specified criterion. | 11-29-2012 |
20120308090 | FACIAL IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM AND FACIAL IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - According to one embodiment, a facial image search system including attribute discrimination module configured to discriminate attribute based on facial feature extracted, a plurality of search modules configured to store facial feature as database in advance, add facial feature extracted to database, calculate degree of similarity between facial feature extracted and facial feature contained in database, setting module configured to generate setting information by associating with any attribute with information indicating search module, and control module configured to identify one or a plurality of search modules based on setting information and attribute and transmit facial feature extracted by feature extraction module to identified search modules. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308091 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT DATA TYPES - There is described a system and method for automatically discriminating between different types of data with an image reader. In brief overview of one embodiment, the automatic discrimination feature of the present image reader allows a human operator to aim a hand held image reader at a target that can contain a dataform and actuate the image reader. An autodiscrimination module in the image reader in one embodiment analyzes image data representative of the target and determines a type of data represented in the image data. | 12-06-2012 |
20120314914 | ENHANCED FACE RECOGNITION IN VIDEO - The computational resources needed to perform processes such as image recognition can be reduced by determining appropriate frames of image information to use for the processing. In some embodiments, infrared imaging can be used to determine when a person is looking substantially towards a device, such that an image frame captured at that time will likely be adequate for facial recognition. In other embodiments, sound triangulation or motion sensing can be used to assist in determining which captured image frames to discard and which to select for processing based on any of a number of factors indicative of a proper frame for processing. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314915 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a face image acquisition section which acquires face images extracted from images which are classified into an identical time cluster by performing time clustering, and a person information generation section which classifies the face images for each time cluster, and generates person information in which persons regarded as an identical person are identified based on the face images which are classified. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314916 | IDENTIFYING AND TAGGING OBJECTS WITHIN A DIGITAL IMAGE - Identifying people in a digital image. An image of a plurality of persons is received. Image recognition is performed on the image to identify the plurality of persons. Upon an identifier for a particular one of the persons being recognized based upon the image recognition, a first tag associated with the particular one of the persons is applied to the image. Upon an identifier for a different one of the persons not being available based upon the image recognition, a user is prompted to enter the identifier for the different one of the persons. A second tag associated with the different one of the persons is applied to the image. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314917 | Automatic Media Sharing Via Shutter Click - A computer-implemented method for automatically sharing media between users is provided. A first image is received depicting a scene with one or more persons. Face detection information is identified for each person in the first image. Identification information for each face detected is obtained without user intervention. The face detection information and the identification information are associated with the first image. The first image including the associated face detection information and identification information is sent to a server hosting a media sharing service. An access link to an event group is received. The event group includes an album of the first image and a first collection of images that share a set of common features with the first image. | 12-13-2012 |
20120321143 | Broadcast Identifier Enhanced Facial Recognition of Images - A system may recognize faces within an image by using wireless identifiers captured at the time the image was taken to determine a list of candidates for facial recognition. A database may contain people associated with one or more wireless identifiers, which may be identifiers associated with various protocols, such as Bluetooth, cellular telephones, WiFi, or other protocols. In some cases, the list of candidates may be expanded by using candidate's social networks. The recognized faces may be tagged in the image as metadata, then used in various scenarios. In one scenario, an album of images from an event may be created by matching people who were tagged in images. In another scenario, people may exchange business contact information or social network contacts by taking images of each other. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED SELECTION OF A RESTRICTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON DETECTED FACIAL AGE AND/OR GENDER - Systems and methods to select and launch a restricted computing environment on an information handing system in an automated manner based on detected facial age and/or gender of a current user of the information handling system. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321145 | FACIAL IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM AND FACIAL IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - According to one embodiment, a facial image search system including, search module configured to calculate degree of similarity between facial features extracted by feature extraction module and facial features contained in database and output search result based on calculated degree of similarity, measuring module configured to measure amount of search result output by search module, and selection module configured to sort out search result output by search module if amount of search result measured by measuring module is equal to or more than preset threshold. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321146 | NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE IN RETAIL ENVIRONMENTS - Embodiments herein include novel ways of alerting store personnel when various activities, events, conditions, etc., occur at the checkout in retail establishments. For example, in accordance with one embodiment, the alerting can take place in substantially real-time, when the event occurs, allowing personnel to take appropriate measures, corrective or otherwise, to deal with the detected event. Examples of such events may include situations such as when a person of interest is detected as shopping at the store, when a cashier has missed scanning an item at the checkout, or to alert store personnel if a non-empty shopping cart has exited the store without payment (a.k.a., a cart push-out). Although the discussion below uses a grocery store as an example retail environment, embodiments herein can be used in any type of retail environment. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321147 | SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A sales data processing apparatus which registers and processes sales data on a transaction-by-transaction basis. The apparatus includes: an imaging module that images a customer who is waiting for registration; a manipulation determination module that determines whether or not a prescribed one of a series of manipulations for registration of sales data of one transaction was performed; and a generation module that generates customer identification image data based on an image taken by the imaging module if the manipulation determination module determines that the prescribed manipulation was performed. | 12-20-2012 |
20120328167 | MERGING FACE CLUSTERS - A method for merging face clusters includes analyzing a set of digital images, grouping instances of faces within the set of digital images into a set of face clusters, each of the face clusters corresponding to a particular person, and determining a probability that a person associated with a first face cluster from the set of face clusters is the same person associated with a second face cluster of the set of face clusters. The probability is based on both a social similarity between the first face cluster and the second face cluster in addition to a facial similarity between the first face cluster and the second face cluster. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328168 | System and Method for Yearbook Creation - A yearbook system may include a user component through which a user may design and create a yearbook and the user component may include a facial recognition module for identifying a subject in a photo and tagging the photo with an identity of the subject and identifying the subject may include comparing the photo to a plurality of previously tagged photos to identify the subject. | 12-27-2012 |
20120328169 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR YEARBOOK CREATION - A method for creating a yearbook may include receiving a plurality of photos via upload to a website, receiving identifying information for subjects in each of the plurality of photos, associating the identifying information with each of the plurality of photos, receiving another photo, comparing the photo to the plurality of photos using a facial recognition module, and identifying a subject of the another photo with the facial recognition module. | 12-27-2012 |
20130004028 | Method for Filtering Using Block-Gabor Filters for Determining Descriptors for Images - A Gabor filter is approximated as a block-Gabor filter. The Gabor filter is represented by a matrix of numbers in which each number is a sample derived from a continuous Gabor function. The block-Gabor filter is partitioned into a set of blocks. Identical filter values are assigned to all the pixels in any particular block based on the Gabor filter. Then, a feature can be extracted from an image by filtering the image with a set of the block-Gabor filters to obtain a corresponding set of filtered images. Each filtered image is partitioned into regions of pixels. For each pixel, an N-bit signature is determined. Histograms of the N-bit signatures of the pixels in each region are combined to form the feature. The features of multiple images can be used for face recognition. | 01-03-2013 |
20130004029 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AS WELL AS STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus capable of improving the usability in search by, for a person presumed to be difficult to be misidentified, improving the frequency of identifying the person. When calculated degree of similarity is equal to or greater than a threshold, it is identified that a face of the person corresponds to a face of any one of registered persons. The threshold is set to a second value greater than a first value, for the face of one of the registered persons who has not been identified when starting recording of the image, and the threshold is set to a third value between the first value and the second value, for the face of one of the registered persons who is already identified when starting the recording of the image, after the recording of the shot image to the nonvolatile recording medium is started. | 01-03-2013 |
20130011024 | FACILITATING FACE DETECTION WITH USER INPUT - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for improving face detection in an image. A user may select a first eye location while viewing the image (e.g., per red-eye reduction) and a first indication of user input, comprising the location selected by the user, can be received. The first eye location in the image can then be used to determine a face location in the image (and a second user indicated eye location can be used as well). The location of the face can be identified in the image, and the image with the identified face location can be provided to a face detection and/or recognition operation, for example. | 01-10-2013 |
20130011025 | Method of Establishing Application-related Communication between Mobile Electronic Devices, Mobile Electronic Device, Non-transitory Machine Readable Media thereof, and Media Sharing Method - When a host mobile electronic device and a client mobile electronic device connect to each other for at least a second time, the client mobile electronic device refers to an entry corresponding to the host mobile electronic device for retrieve required information to wirelessly connect to the host mobile electronic device and to connect to an application installed on the host mobile electronic device under authentication. Therefore, the client mobile electronic device can be relieved from the burden of requesting required information for authentication repeatedly. | 01-10-2013 |
20130016883 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANONYMOUS BIOMETRICS ANALYSISAANM Whillock; Rand P.AACI North OaksAAST MNAACO USAAGP Whillock; Rand P. North Oaks MN USAANM Determan; Gary EdwardAACI Maple GroveAAST MNAACO USAAGP Determan; Gary Edward Maple Grove MN USAANM Jacobson; VincentAACI Eden PrairieAAST MNAACO USAAGP Jacobson; Vincent Eden Prairie MN USAANM Venkatesha; SharathAACI Golden ValleyAAST MNAACO USAAGP Venkatesha; Sharath Golden Valley MN USAANM Davalos; PedroAACI PlymouthAAST MNAACO USAAGP Davalos; Pedro Plymouth MN US - A system receives an identification number from a subject. The system retrieves a biometric measurement from a database using the identification number. The database includes biometric measurements of a plurality of subjects. Each biometric measurement is determined from a location of a particular subject's body, each biometric measurement is associated with a particular identification number, and each particular identification number is associated with a particular subject. When the use of the identification number results in a retrieval of a biometric measurement from the biometric database, the system searches a plurality of locations on the subject and takes biometric measurements at the locations, compares the retrieved biometric measurement from the biometric database with the biometric measurements of the subject, and indicates that the retrieved biometric measurement from the biometric database matches one or more of the biometric measurements from the subject or that the retrieved biometric measurement from the biometric database does not match any of the biometric measurements from the subject. In an embodiment, the system is used for verification purposes, not identification purposes. | 01-17-2013 |
20130034273 | MAILBOXES AND MAILBOX SYSTEMS ENABLING ENHANCED SECURITY AND LOGISTICS, AND/OR ASSOCIATED METHODS - A system is presented that enhances mail security and logistics. The system in certain example embodiments provides image capturing units to capture images of both the user and the items being mailed and tracks the items while maintaining some identity of the individual mailing the item. The system can in certain example embodiments perform facial recognition on the user and/or optical character recognition on the items being mailed in order to enhance the security of the mailing process. | 02-07-2013 |
20130039548 | Genome-Wide Association Study Identifying Determinants Of Facial Characteristics For Facial Image Generation - The present invention relates to a method for the generation of a facial composite from the genetic profile of a DNA-donor. The method comprises the steps of a) subjecting a biological sample to genotyping thereby generating a profile of genetic markers associated to numerical facial descriptors (NFD) for said sample, b) reverse engineer a NFD from the profile of the associated genetic variants and constructing a facial composite from the reverse engineered numerical facial descriptors (NFDs). The present invention also relates to a method for identifying genetic markers and/or combinations of genetic markers that are predictive of the facial characteristics, (predictive facial markers) of a person, said method comprising the steps of: a) capturing images of a group of individual faces; b) performing image analysis on facial images of said group of individual faces thereby extracting phenotypical descriptors of the faces; c) obtaining data on genetic variation from said group of individual and d) performing a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to identify said predictive facial markers. | 02-14-2013 |
20130044922 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing device includes: a face information acquisition unit that acquires face information on a face region detected from an image containing a face of a participant who is collecting specific information provided in display devices respectively installed at plural locations and is using a display device installed at a location; an identification unit that identifies the participant by checking the acquired face information of the participant against registration information on face regions of pre-registered registrants; an action history information acquisition unit that selects the registrants similar to the identified participant as candidates from the registrants and acquires action history information on histories of actions when those candidates collect the specific information; and a presentation unit that presents the acquired action history information to the participant who is using the display unit. | 02-21-2013 |
20130044923 | Face Recognition Using Face Tracker Classifier Data - A method of determining face recognition profiles for a group persons includes determining with a multi-classifier face detector that a face region within a digital image has above a threshold probability of corresponding to a first person of the group, and recording probability scores which are analyzed for each classifier, including determining a mean and variance for each classifier for the first person. The process is repeated for one or more other persons of the group. A sub-set of classifiers is determined which best differentiates between the first person and the one or more other persons. The sub-set of classifiers is stored in association with the first person as a recognition profile. | 02-21-2013 |
20130051633 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a searcher. A searcher searches for a face image representing a face portion of a target person from a designated image, in response to an operation of an operator. A definer defines an expression of the face image detected by the searcher in a manner different depending on a race of the target person and/or a race of the operator. A processor performs on the designated image an output process different depending on the expression defined by the definer. | 02-28-2013 |
20130058542 | EVENT CLASSIFICATION METHOD USING LIT CANDLE DETECTION - A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more lit candles within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected lit candles in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058543 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS - Embodiments of a method for performing image analysis include accessing a digital image of a subject, the digital image comprising a portion of a target substrate of the subject, the digital image comprising a portion of a calibration device; detecting a position of the calibration device by searching the digital image for a predetermined background color; detecting a plurality of color chips on the calibration device; mapping a position of the plurality of color chips on the digital image, each of the plurality of color chips comprising a predetermined chip color; comparing at least a portion of the plurality of color chips with a predetermined color standard; and altering the digital image, based on the comparison, to provide consistent image parameters with other images of the subject. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064433 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TURNING ON OR UNLOCKING METHOD - The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method of turning on or unlocking an electronic device. The method includes steps: controlling the capturing unit to capture a predetermined number of facial images in response to an input for turning on or unlocking the electronic device. Acquiring a clear facial image from the predetermined number of facial images. Performing an image processing for the clear facial image to obtain a facial feature of the clear facial image; and if there is one facial feature in the stored at least one facial image matching with the facial feature of the clear facial image in the storage unit, turning on or unlocking the electronic device. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070973 | FACE RECOGNIZING APPARATUS AND FACE RECOGNIZING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a face recognizing apparatus includes: a storage unit; an input unit; a face detector; an extractor; and a recognizing unit. The storage unit stores face feature information on a face feature of each person. The input unit receives image information including at least a face of a person. The face detector detects a face region of the face of the person from the image information received by the input unit. The extractor extracts face feature information on a face feature from the face region detected by the face detector. The recognizing unit recognizes the person in the image information received by the input unit based on the feature information extracted by the extracting unit and the face feature information stored in the storage unit. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070974 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION BASED QUEUE TIME TRACKING - A method and apparatus for tracking passengers at a travel facility and may include receiving captured facial recognition features of a passenger using a first facial recognition camera at a first known location, determining if the captured facial recognition features of the passenger are stored in a database, wherein if the captured facial recognition features of the passenger are not stored in the database, starting a timer, receiving captured facial recognition features of the passenger using a second facial recognition camera at a second known location, stopping the timer, determining the amount of elapsed time between the received captured facial recognition features of the passenger using the first facial recognition camera at the first known location and the receiving captured facial recognition features of the passenger using the second facial recognition camera at the second known location, outputting the determined amount of elapsed time to at least one or more. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070975 | System and Method to Assign a Digital Image to a Face Cluster - A method includes accessing a digital image including a plurality of faces including a first face and a second face. The method includes identifying a plurality of identification regions of the digital image including a first identification region associated with the first face and a second identification region associated with the second face. The method also includes assigning the digital image to a first face cluster of a plurality of face clusters when a difference between data descriptive of the first identification region and data descriptive of a face cluster identification region of the first face cluster satisfies a threshold. The method further includes assigning the digital image to a second face cluster of the plurality of face clusters based at least partially on a frequency of the second face and the first face appearing together in an image. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070976 | Image Classification And Information Retrieval Over Wireless Digital Networks And The Internet - A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077833 | SEARCHING WITH FACE RECOGNITION AND SOCIAL NETWORKING PROFILES - Systems for performing on-line searching, and particularly, to searching with face recognition and social networking profiles. In one example, one or more systems may be provided with regard to searching with face recognition and social networking profiles. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077834 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF SELECTING AND PLAYING FILES BASED ON FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a storage unit, a capturing unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of files, and a relationship table between facial expressions and the plurality of files. The processing unit includes a controlling module, a facial image acquiring module, a facial expression identifying module, a file acquiring module and a file playing module. The controlling module controls the capturing unit to capture a predetermined number of facial images. The facial image acquiring module acquires a clear facial image from the predetermined number of facial images. The facial expression identifying module identifies a facial expression of the clear facial image. The file acquiring module identifies whether there is at least one of the files matching with the identified facial expression, and acquires the at least one matching file. The file playing module opens and/or plays the at least matching file. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077835 | SEARCHING WITH FACE RECOGNITION AND SOCIAL NETWORKING PROFILES - Methods for performing on-line searching, and particularly, to searching with face recognition and social networking profiles. In one example, one or more methods may be provided with regard to searching with face recognition and social networking profiles. | 03-28-2013 |
20130083977 | RETRIEVING IMAGES - A system includes: receiving first information about a device, where the first information includes data corresponding to a location of the device and a time at which the device was at the location; identifying one or more images associated with second information that is within a range of the first information, where the second information for an image includes data corresponding to a location at which the image was captured and a time at which the image was captured, and where the location at which the image was captured and a time at which the image was captured are within a range of the location of the device and the time at which the device was at the location; and retrieving the one or more images associated with the second information. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089243 | Linking Photographs via Face, Time, and Location - The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology in which metadata such as time, location and/or people identity data, and/or tag or album data that is associated with a photograph or other content may be used to serendipitously discover related content, from among many possible sources. The related content may be from any local or remote source, such as uploaded by multiple contributors corresponding to content captured during a social event, and may be presented in an integrated view in conjunction with a local photograph or other content. Different views of content and related content are automatically constructed from the metadata, providing different user experiences/scenarios without manual collection of the photos. Also described are notifications of newly detected related content, and face detection and recognition to obtain additional metadata. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089244 | VISUAL VOTING METHOD - The present invention is directed toward a system and a method for conducting a visual referendum of a subject including at least one voter, at least one referendum marker and at least one referendum answer. A digital image of the subject is first provided. The voter, referendum marker and referendum answer are then parsed of the subject from the digital image. A target referendum, a target voter and a target referendum answer are then identified based on the referendum marker, voter and referendum answer respectively. This is followed by associating the target referendum answer to the target referendum. The target voter is then associated with the target referendum. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094721 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SELECTION METHOD, ALBUM CREATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for selecting images used in an album indicating a group of a plurality of images includes a person setting unit configured to set a person appearing in an image included in the album, an image evaluation unit configured to evaluate an image based on a composition of the image, a count unit configured to count a number of times in which the person set by the person setting unit appears in a plurality of images, and a selection unit configured to select images used in the album based on evaluation made by the image evaluation unit, and a count value obtained by the count unit. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094722 | FACIAL CODING FOR EMOTIONAL INTERACTION ANALYSIS - Various systems and techniques using facial coding for emotional interaction analysis are described herein. Machine-readable facial observations of a subject while the subject is exposed to a stimulus can be received. The machine readable observations can include a stimulus synchronization element. An emotional component of an emotional state of the subject can be determined based on the facial observations. The determination can include assigning a numerical weight to the emotional component. An emotional state to the stimulus synchronization event can be assigned based on the emotional component. | 04-18-2013 |
20130101181 | PHOTO SHARING SYSTEM WITH FACE RECOGNITION FUNCTION - A photo sharing system with a face recognition function is provided. The photo sharing system includes a photo browser and a photo sharing platform. The photo browser has a photo classification module for classifying plural photos according to face image contained in the plural photos, thereby generating a photo classification message. The photo classification message contains the photos having the face image of the same person. Moreover, the photo classification message may be transmitted to the photo sharing platform at the same time to be shared to the receiver corresponding to face image. By the photo sharing system, the efficacy of sharing photos will be enhanced. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101182 | Method For Discriminating Between A Real Face And A Two-Dimensional Image Of the Face In A Biometric Detection Process - A method for discriminating between a real face and a two-dimensional reproduction of the face, in a biometric detection process, the method comprising: (a) making at least two digital recordings of the face or its reproduction in time sequence, one after the other; (b) dividing each of the recordings into a number of image components wherein each image component comprises a number of pixels; (c) determining the displacement of the individual image components from the first recording to the second recording by correlation and generating a displacement vector field therefrom; and (d) analyzing the displacement vector field for determining whether the recording has been made from a real face or from its reproduction. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101183 | PRE-RECORD DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND PRE-RECORD DATA STORAGE METHOD - A pre-record data storage device includes: a first recording unit; a second recording unit having a capacitance larger than that of the first recording unit; a face comparison process executing unit that executes a face comparison process on a person's face detected from an image obtained by photographing the person; and a recording control unit. The recording control unit allows the first recording unit to start pre-recording of the image of the person from a face detection time when the person's face is detected, and to finish the pre-recording at a matched time when matching is confirmed as a result of the face comparison process of the face comparison process executing unit. The recording control unit stores pre-recorded data from the face detection time to the matched time in the second recording unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130108122 | Image Recomposition From Face Detection And Facial Features | 05-02-2013 |
20130108123 | FACE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | 05-02-2013 |
20130114864 | Feature-Extraction-Based Image Scoring - Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to calculating a probability that a user or set of users will engage with a multimedia object for customizing content in a social networking system. In one embodiment, a generative model representing all users is utilized to calculate the probability that all users will interact with a given multimedia object. In another embodiment, the same generative model is utilized to calculate a user-specific engagement probability for a given multimedia object. In particular embodiments, the generative model uses Bayesian probability. In particular embodiments, one or more policies are applied to the photos to customize the browsing experience for users. | 05-09-2013 |
20130114865 | System and Method for Providing Secure Access to an Electronic Device Using Facial Biometrics - A facial biometric recognition system and method ( | 05-09-2013 |
20130121540 | Facial Recognition Using Social Networking Information - In particular embodiments, one or more images associated with a primary user are received. The image(s) may comprise single images, a series of related images, or video frames. In each image, one or more faces may be detected and/or tracked. For each face, one or more candidates are selected who may be identified with the face. Each candidate may be connected to the primary user within a social network. A candidate score for each candidate associated with a detected face. Finally, the winning candidate is determined, and a suggestion to identify the detected face as being the winning candidate is presented. Some embodiments may operate upon video clips as the video is captured by a mobile device. Some embodiments may operate upon series of images as they are uploaded to or viewed on a website. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121541 | Method And Apparatus To Authenticate User - A method of authenticating a user of a second device connected to a first device peer-to-peer (P2P) on a network, the method including receiving real-time image information containing a face of the user of the second device from the second device, displaying the received real-time image information on a screen of the first device, receiving user authentication information to determine whether the user of the second device is authenticated with reference to the displayed real-time image information, from a user of the first device, and authenticating the user of the second device, based on the received user authentication information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130129158 | Methods and Apparatus for Facial Feature Replacement - A set of feature points for defining features of a face is detected in a target image and a reference image. The target image is warped to accommodate a selected feature from the reference image using the set of feature points and a set of three-dimensional models. The reference image is warped to a pose of the target image using the set of feature points and the set of three-dimensional models. The selected feature is copied from the reference image to the target image. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129159 | FACE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A facial recognition system, method and computer readable medium for improved facial recognition. The facial recognition system includes an image pre-processing module configured to receive a subject facial image and one or more reference facial images. The image pre-processing module is configured to perform pose and lighting correction processing on the subject facial image and on the reference facial images. The facial recognition system also includes a face matching module configured to perform facial recognition analysis of the corrected subject facial image with one or more reference facial images. The facial recognition system also includes an output module configured to receive facial recognition results from the face matching module. The output module is configured to manage the operation of the face recognition system including the operation of the face recognition system based on the facial recognition results received from the face matching module. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129160 | FACE IMAGE REGISTRATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A face image registration device includes an image input unit that inputs face images of a subject person, and an others face retention unit that retains a plurality of others faces. The device further includes: a false alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with the retained others faces, and calculates a false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; a correct alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with each other to calculate a correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; and a registration face image selection unit that selects a registration face image from the face images of the subject person by using the false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person and the correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person. | 05-23-2013 |
20130136319 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PERFORMING SIMILARITY SEARCHES - A similarity search may be performed on the image of a person, using visual characteristics and information that is known about the person. The search identifies images of other persons that are similar in appearance to the person in the image. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136320 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM, AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium storing an authentication program for causing a computer to execute an authentication process, the authentication process includes: extracting a plurality of face information from an image acquired; when the plurality of face information include both first face information registered in authentication information and second face information not registered in the authentication information, registering the second face information in the authentication information; and if new face information extracted from new image is the second face information stored in the authentication information, determining that an authentication for the new face information is successful. | 05-30-2013 |
20130142399 | FACE RECOGNITION USING MULTILAYERED DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS - Face recognition using multilayered discriminant analysis includes systems and methods applying an initial linear discriminate analysis to a database of face images in a more-or less conventional manner. Initial fuzzy logic then is applied to the results of the initial linear discriminate analysis to produce a subset of the database of face images. Thereafter, a subsequent linear discriminate analysis is applied to the subset of the database of face images and subsequent fuzzy logic is applied to the results of the subsequent linear discriminate analysis to produce a further subset of the subset of the database of face images. The application of the subsequent linear discriminate analysis and application of the subsequent fuzzy logic may be repeated until the further subset contains only one, or zero, face images. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142400 | MEDICAL CLAIMS FRAUD PREVENTION SYSTEM INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPH RECORDS IDENTIFICATION AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A medical claim fraud prevention system includes a first controller positioned at a medical facility and a second controller positioned at a patient information collection center and adapted to be in communication with the first controller. The first controller may transmit a first signal to the second controller responsive to an occurrence of an event. The second controller may initiate contact with a photograph database via a network interface in response to the first signal received from the first controller, and an official photograph associated with the patient name may be identified. The second controller may transmit the official photograph to the first controller so that the official photograph is viewable on a user interface at the medical facility. A patient identity may be verified by performing a comparison of a patient with the official photograph of the patient. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142401 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The image processing apparatus detects a region of a subject from an input image, and extracts an image feature amount from the region. Also, the apparatus classifies the subject into any one of plural attributes based on the image feature amount, and estimates, based on the image feature amount and an attribute into which it is classified, an attribute value of the subject belonging to the attribute into which it is classified. | 06-06-2013 |
20130142402 | Method And System For Attaching A Metatag To A Digital Image - A system and method for tagging an image of an individual in a plurality of photos is disclosed herein. A feature vector of an individual is used to analyze a set of photos on a social networking website such as www.facebook.com to determine if an image of the individual is present in a photo of the set of photos. Photos having an image of the individual are tagged preferably by listing a URL or URI for each of the photos in a database. | 06-06-2013 |
20130148867 | EXTERNAL CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR DELAYING SCREEN LOCKING OF COMPUTING DEVICE - An external controller for delaying screen locking of a computing device, the screen of the computing device is automatically locked after a preset period of inactivity of the computing device. The external controller includes a detection unit and a control unit. The detection unit accounts a period of time of how long the computing device is inactive, and detects whether at least one authorized user is in front of the screen when the accounted period of time is greater than a predetermined time period. The control unit generates a control command for interrupting the inactivity mode of the computing device to delay the screen from automatically locking for the preset period, when the at least one authorized user is detected in front of the screen. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148868 | SYSTEM FOR SECURE IMAGE RECOGNITION - Disclosed embodiments include methods, apparatuses, and systems for secured image processing, image recognition, biometric recognition, and face recognition in untrusted environments. The disclosure includes a system for secure image recognition that comprises a secure biometric recognition system configured to work directly with encrypted signals, and the secure biometric recognition system comprises an input quantization system and a homomorphic encryption system configured for noninteractive biometric recognition. | 06-13-2013 |
20130156273 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CAPTURE IMAGES - Methods and apparatus to capture images are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a resolution determiner to determine that a first frame of image data is to undergo processing at a first resolution and that a second frame of image data is to undergo processing at a second resolution lower than the first resolution; and a controller to activate an illuminator when an image sensor is to capture the first frame and to deactivate the illuminator when the image sensor is to capture the second frame. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156274 | USING PHOTOGRAPH TO INITIATE AND PERFORM ACTION - Actions, such as adding new connection to a social graph, may be performed through picture taking. In one example, a user takes a picture of one or more people. The face in the picture may be sent to a social network for identification. The social network may use various resources to identify the face, including the social network's picture database and its social graph. When the person in the picture has been identified, the user may indicate an action (e.g., “adding as a friend” in a social network) to be performed with respect to the identified person. The action requested by the user may be then performed with respect to the identified person. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156275 | TECHNIQUES FOR GROUPING IMAGES - Techniques for grouping images are disclosed. In some situations, the techniques include identifying at least one event-based image group among a plurality of images based on an event that is associated with each identified image, receiving a selection of one or more objects in a first image of the identified event-based image group, identifying other images in the identified event-based image group that each include at least one of the selected one or more objects, and associating the identified images with the first image. In one instance, the selected objects include individuals captured in the image. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156276 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A FUNCTION OF SEARCHING IMAGES BASED ON FACIAL FEATURE AND METHOD - An electronic device with a function of searching images based on a facial feature is provided. The electronic device includes a capturing unit, a storage unit, an acquiring module, a searching module, and a folder establishing module. The capturing unit captures facial images. The storage unit stores a plurality of images. The acquiring module acquires facial features of the facial image captured by the capturing unit. The searching module searches for images that include the acquired facial feature from the plurality of images stored in the storage unit. The folder establishing module establishes a new folder and stores the searched images to the established new folder. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156277 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, including: an acquisition section configured to acquire personal identification information for identifying a person relating to first image information and image evaluation information produced by evaluating the first image information in accordance with an image of a main imaging object detected based on the first image information; and a setting section configured to set an evaluation condition for evaluating second image information based on the personal identification information and the image evaluation information. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156278 | OPTICAL FLOW ACCELERATOR FOR MOTION RECOGNITION AND METHOD THEREOF - An optical flow accelerator includes a face recognizing unit to recognize a face from a stereo image provided the optical flow accelerator. A depth information calculation unit calculates depth information of the recognized face on a basis of the recognized face. A face tracking unit tracks a size and a shape of the face depending on a movement direction when the recognized face moves. A controller controls generates depth information of the recognized face depending on an optical flow. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163829 | SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING DISGUISED FACE USING GABOR FEATURE AND SVM CLASSIFIER AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a system and a method for recognizing a disguised face using a Gabor feature and a support vector machine (SVM) classifier according to the present invention. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163830 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus generates, for each person, a first face dictionary storing face data concerning a face of the person included in an image. The apparatus receives, from an imaging apparatus, a second face dictionary which is stored face data of a person corresponding to the first face dictionary and which may be updated the face data using images obtained on the imaging apparatus, and stores. The information processing apparatus transmits the first face dictionary to the imaging apparatus when an update date and time of the second face dictionary is older than a date and time of the first face dictionary. The information processing apparatus does not transmit the first face dictionary to the imaging apparatus when the first face dictionary includes face data of the person included in an image captured outside of a predetermined period. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163831 | OBJECT RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND DICTIONARY DATA REGISTRATION METHOD - In a personal authentication apparatus that compares input feature information with feature information stored in advance as dictionary data, thereby calculating a similarity and recognition a person, when additionally storing feature information in the dictionary data, the feature information is compared with the feature information of the same person already stored in the dictionary data. Pieces of feature information are put into groups for the same person based on the similarities and stored in the dictionary data. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING - According to one of embodiments, taking in facial image data for a user, extracting feature points of the face of the user from the facial image data and then coding the feature points, and registering the facial image data on a destination management table so that the facial image data is associated with a special identifier and/or the coded feature points. In particular, the face of the sender is incorporated into a video mail, so that the exchange of addresses (faces) is facilitated and the reliability of the e-mail itself can be enhanced. Further, a face can be automatically registered on an address book at a receiving end. In this case, a similar face can be updated by the latest face. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163833 | SECURITY DEVICE WITH SECURITY IMAGE UPDATE CAPABILITY - An exemplary security device includes a controller that determines whether a security credential for an individual corresponds to an authorized credential. The controller also determines whether an acquired image of the individual corresponds to a reference image that is associated with the authorized credential. The controller determines if a correspondence between the acquired image and the reference image satisfies a selected criterion when the security credential corresponds to the authorized credential. The controller updates the reference image responsive to the selected criterion being satisfied. The controller updates the reference image by including the acquired image into the reference image and weighting the acquired image higher than other image information previously incorporated into the reference image. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177218 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A personal authentication apparatus comprises an input unit configured to input image data; a face detection unit configured to detect a face region of a person included in the image data input by the input unit, and to detect feature data from the detected face region; a facial expression determination unit configured to determine a facial expression from the face region detected by the face detection unit; a storage unit configured to store feature data used to authenticate a person in correspondence with respective facial expressions of a plurality of faces; a selection unit configured to select feature data corresponding to the facial expression determined by the facial expression determination unit from the storage unit; and an authentication unit configured to authenticate a person by comparing the feature data of the face region detected by the face detection unit, and the feature data selected by the selection unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177219 | Face Data Acquirer, End User Video Conference Device, Server, Method, Computer Program And Computer Program Product For Extracting Face Data - A face data acquirer includes an image capture module arranged to capture an image from a video stream of a video conference. A face detection module is arranged to determine a subset of the image, the subset representing a face. An identity acquisition module is arranged to acquire an identity of a video conference participant coupled to the face represented by the subset of the image. A face extraction module is arranged to extract face data from the subset of the image and to determine whether to store the extracted face data for subsequent face recognition. A corresponding end user video conference device, server, method, computer program and computer program product are also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182917 | DYNAMICALLY PRESENTING INFORMATION OF POTENTIAL INTEREST TO A VARYING TRANSITORY GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS SCANNED BY FACIAL RECOGNITION IN A CONSUMER MARKETING ENVIRONMENT - Video monitoring of groups of individuals who are passing into and out of defined areas, such as sections in shopping malls, to dynamically attempt to recognize and capture the profiles of a plurality of individuals who are in the defined area during a determined time period and whose facial recognition match stored facial recognition profiles. Accordingly, once the method recognizes the recognition profiles of a plurality of individuals, the plurality of recognized individuals have their interests screened for interests in common. These screened common interests may be used to directly present advertisements and like information in the area where the plurality of individuals have been recognized. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182918 | 3D IMAGE ESTIMATION FOR 2D IMAGE RECOGNITION - A server determines a plurality of faceprints representing a plurality of users to be recognized at a client device. Each faceprint contains a number of reference images for a given user that are used to recognize facial images of the user detecting in media captured at the client device. The faceprints delivered to the client device are determined for the client device based on the users likely to be detected in images captured at the client device. The reference images with a given faceprint delivered to the client device are selected by the server based on their recognition value in identifying the users likely to be detected in images captured at the client device. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182919 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image capture apparatus include transmission unit for transmitting first feature data concerning a face region included in an image captured by an image sensor to an external apparatus, reception unit for receiving a matching result between the first feature data and second feature data concerning a sub object from the external apparatus, storage unit for storing third feature data concerning a main object in a predetermined storage area in advance, matching unit for matching the first feature data with the third feature data and display unit for identifiably displaying, on a display device, the face region recognized as the sub object in the matching result received by the reception unit and the face region recognized as the main object in the matching result obtained by the matching unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182920 | Separating Directional Lighting Variability in Statistical Face Modelling Based on Texture Space Decomposition - A technique for determining a characteristic of a face or certain other object within a scene captured in a digital image including acquiring an image and applying a linear texture model that is constructed based on a training data set and that includes a class of objects including a first subset of model components that exhibit a dependency on directional lighting variations and a second subset of model components which are independent of directional lighting variations. A fit of the model to the face or certain other object is obtained including adjusting one or more individual values of one or more of the model components of the linear texture model. Based on the obtained fit of the model to the face or certain other object in the scene, a characteristic of the face or certain other object is determined. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188844 | AUTOMATED INDEXING FOR DISTRIBUTING EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY - The present method relates to the automated indexing of event images for distribution. The automated indexing can use automated facial recognition to determine which people are in each image. The images indexed in this fashion can be presented in a gallery, ordered by characteristics of the people in the images such as their name or room number, so as to facilitate the selection of the images by the people. The identification of the people in the images can be assisted by security or other information regarding the people that may be available to the event manager. Furthermore, the closeness of the relationships of two people can be inferred from the degree to which the people are in the same images, allowing the people in the images to be placed into groups, which can be hierarchical and/or overlapping, and which can assist in the organization of images being presented to the people, either in a gallery or electronic display format. | 07-25-2013 |
20130195322 | SELECTION OF TARGETED CONTENT BASED ON CONTENT CRITERIA AND A PROFILE OF USERS OF A DISPLAY - Systems and methods for selecting targeted content are provided. An image is determined, and a set of faces in the image are also determined. Each face corresponds with a user of a display. A characteristic profile of the set of faces in the image is determined. The characteristic profile is compared to targeting criteria associated with a multimedia content item, to generate a comparison result. A multimedia content item of a plurality of multimedia content items is selected, based on the comparison result. | 08-01-2013 |
20130202160 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, RECOGNITION CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND RECOGNITION CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing terminal capable of imposing restrictions on a predetermined function includes an image input unit capable of inputting a facial image of a recognition object person, a facial image storage unit for storing a facial image of a recognition registrant, a concordance rate detection unit for detecting a concordance rate between the facial image of the recognition object person and the facial image of the recognition registrant, a restriction cancel unit for canceling the restrictions on the predetermined function on the basis of the concordance rate detected by the concordance rate detection unit, a display unit capable of displaying information, and a display control unit for controlling to display information concerning the concordance rate on the display unit concurrently with the facial image of the recognition object person. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202161 | Enhanced face detection using depth information - A method for face detection includes capturing a depth map and an image of a scene and selecting one or more locations in the image to test for presence of human faces. At each selected location, a respective face detection window is defined, having a size that is scaled according to a depth coordinate of the location that is indicated by the depth map. Apart of the image that is contained within each face detection window is processed to determine whether the face detection window contains a human face. Similar methods may also be applied in identifying other object types. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202162 | METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL FACIAL SHAPE - A method of reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) facial shape with super resolution even from a short moving picture having a front facial image by acquiring a super-resolution facial image by applying, as a weighting factor, a per-unit-patch similarity between a target frame and frames remaining after excluding the target frame from among a plurality of continuous frames including the front facial image, and reconstructing the 3D facial shape based on the acquired super-resolution facial image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202163 | SUBJECT DETERMINATION APPARATUS THAT DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT SUBJECT IS SPECIFIC SUBJECT - A subject determination apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit, first and second similarity degree determination units, an information obtaining unit, and a subject determination unit. The second similarity degree determination unit determines whether a similarity degree between a reference image and an image of a candidate region of a specific subject image in one of frame images sequentially obtained by the image obtaining unit is equal to or more than a second threshold value smaller than a first threshold value if the similarity degree is determined by the first similarity degree determination unit to be less than the first threshold value. The information obtaining unit obtains information indicating a similarity degree between the reference image and an image of a region corresponding to the candidate region in another frame image obtained a predetermined number of frames before the one frame image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130208953 | HUMAN FACIAL IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AS WELL AS INFRARED BACKLIGHT COMPENSATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A human facial identification method and system are disclosed, which belong to the mode identification technical field and intend to improve veracity of human facial identification implemented in outdoor environment. The human facial identification method includes: driving a group of infrared lamps by a high frequency pulse signal to generate infrared backlight, collecting identified human facial features in irradiation of the infrared backlight, comparing the collected identified human facial features with a human facial template to complete the human facial identification. A human facial compensation method and system are also disclosed, which are intend to improve luminance of infrared backlight. The technical solutions are mostly applied to the human image identification field. | 08-15-2013 |
20130216107 | METHOD OF SURVEILLANCE BY FACE RECOGNITION - A method of surveillance by face recognition is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: first building up the face recognition database library in a storage medium comprising a plurality of face images; taking dynamic videos via an image capture device and showing the dynamic videos in the display device; performing face recognition to find the target face image in each dynamic video, and then determine the target face image as the matched or mismatched face image by comparing the target face image with the face images in the face recognition database library; and finally marking the matched and mismatched face images by different colored frames, respectively. Therefore, the method of the present invention can dynamically mark the target face images by images, colored frames and/or text to provide a solution of surveillance with high safety and efficiency. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216108 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USER IDENTIFICATION - An electronic terminal and method for user authentication determine if a user may access the electronic device according to a comparison of a captured user image with a reference image. If authentication fails using the captured user image, a second user authentication method may be displayed. If authentication is successful via the second user authentication method, the reference image may be updated according to the captured user image. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216109 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A migratory ratio of a customer is obtained to support a marketing strategy related to attracting customers. A population extraction unit extracts the number of persons, in which a game of one of the models of currently-installed amusement machines is recorded, as the number of persons of a population from pieces of information included in a biological information database. A migratory ratio calculation result output unit calculates a ratio of the number of persons, who use a model except the models of the amusement machines in which the population is obtained in the currently-installed amusement machines in the pieces of information included in the biological information database, to the population as the migratory ratio. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus that analyzes a trend of customers. | 08-22-2013 |
20130223694 | Demographic Analysis of Facial Landmarks - A set of training vectors may be identified. Each training vector may be mapped to either a male gender or a female gender, and each training vector may represent facial landmarks derived from a respective facial image. An input vector of facial landmarks may also be identified. The facial landmarks of the input vector may be derived from a particular facial image. A feature vector may containing a subset of the facial landmarks may be selected from the input vector. A weighted comparison may be performed between the feature vector and each of the training vectors. Based on a result of the weighted comparison, the particular facial image may be classified as either the male gender or the female gender. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223695 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION OF IMAGE INCLUDING A FACE - A method of processing an image is provided. The method includes obtaining an image including a face, obtaining information about whether a preset condition is satisfied after the image is obtained, obtaining location information of a face part in the image when the preset condition is satisfied, and obtaining a synthesis image by adding an image corresponding to the satisfied condition at a location of the face part to the image. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SECURE ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING FACIAL BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND SCREEN GESTURE - A system and method for providing secure authorization to a device ( | 08-29-2013 |
20130223697 | FACE DETECTION-PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A face detection-processing circuit includes a down-scaler, a face detection unit, a control unit and a down-scaling ratio controller. The down-scaler is configured to scale down a resolution of an input image including at least one subject person according to a down-scaling ratio to provide a first image. The face detection unit is configured to detect a face of the least one subject person in the first image and generate coordinate information on a region of the detected face part (face region). The control unit is configured to calculate a face detection index indicating a ratio of the face region to the first image based on the coordinate information to provide control signals based on the face detection index and a face detection signal indicating whether a face is detected. The down-scaling ratio controller is configured to adjust the down-scaling ratio in response to the control signal. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223698 | Face Tracking for Controlling Imaging Parameters - A method of tracking faces in an image stream with a digital image acquisition device includes receiving images from an image stream including faces, calculating corresponding integral images, and applying different subsets of face detection rectangles to the integral images to provide sets of candidate regions. The different subsets include candidate face regions of different sizes and/or locations within the images. The different candidate face regions from different images of the image stream are each tracked. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223699 | FACIAL VALIDATION SENSOR - A facial validation sensor includes an imaging element, a validating unit and a feedback unit. The validating unit performs validation of an individual to be validated based on facial image data of the individual, imaged by the imaging element, and facial image data registered in advance. The feedback unit guides a face of the individual to be within an imaging range that is imaged by the imaging element. The feedback unit is an indicator providing unit that provides an indicator that is viewable from a specific direction within the imaging range that is imaged by the imaging element. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230217 | ATTRIBUTE DETERMINING METHOD, ATTRIBUTE DETERMINING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND ATTRIBUTE DETERMINING SYSTEM - The present invention is to provide an attribute determining method, an attribute determining apparatus, a program, a recording medium, and an attribute determining system of high detection accuracy of a person with which an attribute of a person can be determined, for example, even in the case where characteristic parts of the face are hidden. | 09-05-2013 |
20130236068 | CALCULATING FACIAL IMAGE SIMILARITY - In one embodiment, for a first image, a first vector of similarity to a set of reference images is calculated as a first face descriptor, and for a second image, a second vector of similarity to the set of reference images is calculated as a second face descriptor. A similarity measure between the first face descriptor and the second face descriptor is then calculated. | 09-12-2013 |
20130236069 | Face Recognition System and Face Recognition Method Thereof - A face recognition system and a face recognition method thereof. The face recognition system comprises a storage module, a processing module and a display module. The storage module stores a plurality of face recognition codes, a plurality of face images or face coordinates corresponding to the plurality of face recognition codes. The processing module calculates an overlap rate of the (T−1) | 09-12-2013 |
20130236070 | AUTOMATIC FACE DETECTION AND PARENTAL APPROVAL IN IMAGES AND VIDEO AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - A method and system for the notification and subsequent approval process corresponding to facial detection in images and videos disclosed by or related to minors or other dependents within an online platform. A face detector is applied to detect a set of possible face regions in the image or video. If a face is detected within a given threshold of certainty, the image or video (media) is flagged for approval by the minor's and/or dependent's parent, agent, representative or legal guardian. | 09-12-2013 |
20130236071 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A mobile ratio of a customer is obtained to support a marketing strategy related to attracting customers. A population extraction unit | 09-12-2013 |
20130236072 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person. | 09-12-2013 |
20130243268 | FACE IMAGE PRIORITIZATION BASED ON FACE QUALITY ANALYSIS - Methods, machine-readable media, and devices for face image prioritization based on face quality analysis are described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include detecting a facial image in an image that has been acquired by a camera that monitors a scene, passing the facial image through a number of quality analysis filters that include a number of quality analysis factors, wherein processing complexity associated with the number of quality analysis factors increases consecutively, and submitting the facial image to a facial recognition program upon a determination that the facial image has passed the number of quality analysis filters. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243269 | DISTRIBUTIVE FACIAL MATCHING AND NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method and a system for distributing facial identifiers to gateways are described. The system has one or more gateways and a web server associate with the gateways. Each gateway is coupled to a video capturing device. The web server identifies one or more gateways using a metadata associated with a picture of a face. The web server then distributes the picture of the face and the metadata to the identified gateways. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ADAPTION OF MEDIA BASED ON IMPLICIT USER INPUT AND BEHAVIOR - A system and method for dynamically adapting media having multiple scenarios presented on a media device to a user based on characteristics of the user captured from at least one sensor. During presentation of the media, the at least one sensor captures user characteristics, including, but not limited to, physical characteristics indicative of user interest and/or attentiveness to subject matter of the media being presented. The system determines the interest level of the user based on the captured user characteristics and manages presentation of the media to the user based on determined user interest levels, selecting scenarios to present to the user on user interest levels. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243271 | COLLATION APPARATUS, COLLATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a collation apparatus includes a receiving unit, a detecting unit, a setting unit, a face collation unit, an object collation unit, and a calculating unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive a captured image including a user's face and an object positioned with respect to the face. The detecting unit is configured to detect a face region from the image. The setting unit is configured to set an object region in the image. The face collation unit is configured to collate a face feature vector extracted from the face region with a stored face feature vector. The object collation unit is configured to collate an object feature vector extracted from the object region with a stored object feature vector. The calculating unit is configured to calculate a user collation using at least one of the collation results for the face and object feature vectors. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243272 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, CONTROL PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An authentication apparatus comprises an extraction part configured to extract a feature of a face from a face image of a user; a plurality of classifiers configured to identify the user by determining whether or not the feature extracted by the extraction part matches a feature of a face stored in a storage apparatus; a deriving part configured to derive a specific condition based on at least one of the feature extracted by the extraction part and information for authenticating the user; a selecting part configured to select at least one of the classifiers based on the specific condition; and an authentication part configured to authenticate the user when the selected classifier determines that the feature extracted by the extraction part matches the feature of the face stored in the storage. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243273 | IMAGE PUBLISHING DEVICE, IMAGE PUBLISHING METHOD, IMAGE PUBLISHING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An image publishing device includes an image storage that stores images owned by a user, an image analyzer that performs image analyses on each of the images stored in the image storage, and a publishing/non-publishing decision unit that makes a publishing/non-publishing decision on each of the images based on results of the image analyses made on each of the images. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243274 | Person Image Processing Apparatus and Person Image Processing Method - According to one embodiment, a person image processing apparatus includes: an input processor configured to input a plurality of pieces of image data captured at different times by an image capture module; an extraction module configured to extract a person display area showing a same person from each of the pieces of image data captured at the different times; a feature detector configured to detect a feature point showing a feature of a part of a person from the person display area extracted from each of the pieces of image data and acquire reliability of the part shown in the feature point; and a correction module configured to, when correcting the person display area subjected to input processing by the input processor, perform weighting based on the reliability of the feature point included in the person display area. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251215 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFIGURED TO APPLY FACIAL RECOGNITION BASED UPON REFLECTED INFRARED ILLUMINATION AND RELATED METHODS - An electronic device may include a housing and at least one infrared (IR) proximity sensor carried by the housing. The at least one IR proximity sensor may include an IR emitter configured to emit IR illumination toward a user, and an IR sensor configured to sense reflected IR illumination from the user. The electronic device may also include a camera carried by the housing and configured to capture an image of the user's face based upon the reflected IR illumination. The electronic device may further include a controller configured to apply facial recognition to the captured image of the user's face based upon the reflected IR illumination. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251216 | Personal Identification Combining Proximity Sensing with Biometrics - Described is a technology by which the identity of a person (e.g., a customer in a commercial transaction) is determinable without active identification effort, via biometric data is obtained without action by the person. Machine processing of the biometric data over a set of possible persons, determined from secondary proximity sensing, is used to determine or assist in determining the identity of the person. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251217 | Method and Apparatus to Incorporate Automatic Face Recognition in Digital Image Collections - A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection. In addition, the naming tool may include a graphical user interface, a face detection module that detects faces in images of the digital image collection and stores data pertaining to the detected faces in the facial image database, a face recognition module that computes at least one facial recognition template for each facial image in the facial image database, and a similarity grouping module that groups facial images in the facial image database according to the respective templates such that similar facial images belong to one similarity group. | 09-26-2013 |
20130259323 | SCENE-BASED PEOPLE METERING FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT - Scene-based people metering for audience measurement is disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to perform people metering for audience measurement comprises segmenting image frames depicting a location in which an audience is expected to be present to form a sequence of scenes, for a first scene in the sequence of scenes, identifying a key frame representing a first sequence of image frames corresponding to the first scene, and processing the key frame to identify an audience depicted in the first scene. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259324 | Method for face recognition - A method for face recognition is provided with collecting a match facial image; retrieving a reference image from image records of a database or an input image; selecting one or more facial features from each of the match facial image and the reference image; obtaining at least one match facial feature and a match deviation of the reference image corresponding to the facial features of the match facial image; creating a match geometric model and a reference geometric model; obtaining a model deviation by comparing the match geometric model and the reference geometric model; and employing a match deviation and a model deviation to obtain a recognition score based on a predetermined rule. The method involves a two-way face recognition by integrating facial features of block matching with geometric model comparison. It employs relationship of match deviation and model deviation. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259325 | ACCESS CONTROL ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND ITS APPARATUS - The invention provides an access control arrangement system and its apparatus. It takes the limitation of space and synchronous operation to ensure that at least two types of control elements, such as biological traits that cannot be counterfeited and allotment identity control card, are combined safely as a trusted base for follow-up management and service. The apparatus disclosed by the present invention mainly comprises an access card reading module and an image recording device that takes facial image simultaneously. Therefore, it can be operated in the limited space such as turnstiles or passageways to complete synchronous operation and safely and seamless information connection. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259326 | SERVER, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SERVER CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - In one embodiment, there is provided a server. The server includes: a receiver configured to receive, from an electronic device, an instruction signal instructing the server to detect a name of a first person, positional information representing a position of the electronic device and an image data of the first person; an extractor configured to extract electronic devices existing within a certain range from the electronic device based on the positional information, wherein positional information of the electronic devices are stored in the server; a detector configured to detect the first person by performing face detection on persons who are associated with the extracted electronic devices using the image data of the first person; and an output module configured to output the name of the first person. | 10-03-2013 |
20130259327 | System and Method for Matching Faces - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for matching faces. The method includes receiving an image of a face of a first person from a device of a second person, comparing the image of the face of the first person to a database of known faces in a contacts list of the second person, identifying a group of potential matching faces from the database of known faces, and displaying to the second person the group of potential matching faces. In one variation, the method receives input selecting one face from the group of potential matching faces and displays additional information about the selected one face. In a related variation, the method displays additional information about one or more face in the displayed group of potential matching faces without receiving input. | 10-03-2013 |
20130266194 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING A PHOTO WITH A DATA STRUCTURE NODE - A system and method for identifying a photo displays the photo with a family tree. Facial recognition, photo date estimation, people age estimation and gender determination are used to associate the displayed photo with one or more identified nodes in the family tree. A user can enter tagging information for the photo based on the identified nodes. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266195 | Hash-Based Face Recognition System - In a face recognition system, overlapping patches are defined on a canonical face. Random clusters of pixel pairs are defined within each patch, and binary features are determined for each pixel pair by comparing their respective feature values. An inverted index hash table is constructed of the binary features. Similar binary features are then determined on a library of registrable samples of identified faces. A log probability of each registrable sample generating a binary feature from a corresponding cluster of pixel pairs at each specific patch location is determined and stored in the hash table. In a search phase, similar binary features are determined, and a hash key is determined for each binary feature. The log probabilities for each identity found in the hash table are summed for all clusters of pixel pairs and locations and sorted to find the high probability match. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266196 | MONITORING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An entrance and in-store matching unit searches a first mismatched face image that is not matched with a face image captured at an entrance from all face images, which are captured in a store and registered in a biological information DB. An entrance and exit matching unit searches a second mismatched face image that is not matched with a face image captured at an entrance from all the face images, which are captured at an exit and registered in the biological information DB. An exit and in-store matching unit searches a matched face image that is matched with the second mismatched face image among the first mismatched face images. An entrance information registration unit registers the searched matched face image in the biological information DB as the face image captured at the entrance. The present invention can be applied to a monitoring system. | 10-10-2013 |
20130272583 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING FACE IMAGE ANALYSIS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating face image analysis. A method may include determining a histogram-based face descriptor for each of a plurality of regions of a face image. The method may further include compressing the histogram-based face descriptors to generate a plurality of compressed face descriptors describing the plurality of regions of the face image. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272584 | MONITORING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A suspicious person determination unit determines whether the face image of a matching target person is registered in a biological information DB by a matching result of a matching unit. When the face image of the matching target person is registered, area storage stores a specified area while correlating the specified area with a personal ID. A provisional registration unit makes a provisional registration of a suspicious person flag while correlating the suspicious person flag with the personal ID when a pattern of the specified area is a behavioral pattern of a suspicious person. A definitive registration unit makes a definitive registration of the suspicious person flag while correlating with the personal ID, when the provisional registration of the suspicious person flag is made for the face image of the matching target person, and when the face image of the matching target person is captured at a premium exchange counter. | 10-17-2013 |
20130279766 | Method for sharing the location of facial recognition systems using a wireless computing device - A method for sharing the location of facial recognition systems using a wireless computing device is presented. | 10-24-2013 |
20130279767 | METHOD OF MANAGING VISITING GUESTS BY FACE RECOGNITION - A method of managing visiting guests by face recognition includes: extract the face image of the visiting guest; determine if the face image of the guest is stored in the database; display the face image data comprising the face image, guest information and visiting information if the face image is stored or enroll the new face image data and then display the face image data just registered; set up at least one authorized item; execute the visiting goal confined by the authorized items; monitor the status of the visiting guest; wait until the guest leaves; and finally record and update log page and face image data of the visiting guest in the database. Therefore, the method can reduce security guard workload, assist security guards or automatically and solely execute the function of guard entrance without any careless mistakes, and update visiting guest information in real time. | 10-24-2013 |
20130287269 | CREATING SOCIAL NETWORK GROUPS - Embodiments generally relate to creating groups in a social network system. In one embodiment, a method includes recognizing at least one person in the at least one photo associated with a target user in a social network system, where the recognizing is based at least in part on social relevance. The method also includes creating a group in the social network system, where the group includes the at least one person recognized in the at least one photo. The method also includes associating the group with the target user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130301884 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTED MAINTENANCE IN A GAMING MACHINE USING A MOBILE DEVICE - A gaming system is disclosed for enabling a technician to open a door of a gaming machine without needing a physical key having a biometric controlled door lock. The system comprising: one or more gaming machines each having a door, a server connected to the one or more gaming machines via a network, and one or more mobile devices. The server stores a code decoding module for determining a gaming machine identifier (ID). The gaming machine ID is used by a gaming machine ID database to determine which gaming machine has been scanned. Each mobile device enables a technician to scan a code on the gaming machine using the camera on the mobile device. The mobile device transmits a mobile device identifier and a technician's personal identification number, after which the door unlocks after the gaming machine receives an unlock signal. | 11-14-2013 |
20130301885 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image including a face is input (S | 11-14-2013 |
20130301886 | AUTHENTICATION CARD, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, GUIDANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention is an authentication card having: an imaging means that images the face of a person to be authenticated; and a guidance means that performs guidance that leads the person to be authenticated in a manner so that it is possible to capture an image from which at least the feature quantities of the face of the person to be authenticated necessary for authentication comparison can be extracted. | 11-14-2013 |
20130308835 | Mobile Communication Device with Image Recognition and Method of Operation Therefor - A disclosed mobile communication device includes control logic, operatively coupled to a proximity detector, at least one camera, and to at least one transceiver. A method of operation includes capturing an image using the mobile communication device camera, in response to determining that the mobile communication device is within a threshold proximity of the user's head, performing image recognition on the image to recognize at least one human feature of the user, correlating the recognized at least one human feature to a user attribute, and providing image based control based on the user attribute. The method may include correlating by performing a lookup operation of the recognized at least one human feature using a lookup table to identify the user attribute. The human features may be an approximate ear size and a user attribute may be a user's approximate age. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308836 | PHOTO IMAGE MANAGING METHOD AND PHOTO IMAGE MANAGING SYSTEM - A photo image managing method includes the following steps. Firstly, a face recognizing operation is performed to acquire at least one target face image contained in a photo image. Then, the target face image is compared with plural face images stored in a face database, and thus plural resembling face images are acquired. Then, the user may judge which resembling face image is identical to the target face image, and thus selects a specified resembling face image. The specified resembling face image is correlated with a face name. Afterwards, the face name corresponding to the specified resembling face image is assigned to the target face image, so that the relationship between the assigned face name and the target photo image is established. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308837 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processor includes: a face direction detecting section detecting directions of a face from images in which said face of a subject to registration becoming a subject of registration is photographed; a peripheral direction determination processing section determining the images for which the directions of the face detected by the face direction detecting section are determined to be within a specified range of a predetermined peripheral direction other than a front surface direction as registration candidates of the peripheral direction; and a direction dispersion determination processing section determining the predetermined sheets of images, for which the directions of the face are sufficiently, mutually dispersed, of the images determined as the registration candidates by the peripheral direction determination processing section as the images for registration of the peripheral direction. | 11-21-2013 |
20130322705 | FACIAL AND FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION - A facial and fingerprint authentication technique is used to unlock a device. For example, the device may be configured to capture facial image of a user utilizing a first camera and a fingerprint of the user utilizing a second camera. The device may also be configured to compare the captured facial image with a reference facial image, and compare the captured fingerprint with a reference fingerprint. The device may further be configured to unlock a device when the captured facial image matches the reference facial image and the captured fingerprint matches the reference fingerprint. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322706 | Disruption of Facial Recognition System - A method and apparatus allow an individual to disrupt recognition of facial characteristics of the individual by a facial recognition system. This is accomplished by providing an object which is worn adjacent the face of the individual. At least one infrared radiation emitter is fixed to the object which emits mostly or totally infrared radiation. The infrared radiation emitter is adjacent the face of the individual and directed at least one of onto the face or forward of the face of the user at all times, and hence as the face of the individual is viewed by the camera of the facial recognition system. As a result, an image of the face obtained by the facial recognition system is substantially different from an image which would have been obtained were the infrared radiation not so emitted, so that determination of facial characteristics by the facial recognition system is disrupted. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322707 | PRODUCING PERSONALIZED TEAM PHOTO BOOKS - A method for use in producing a plurality of personalized photo books for members of a team, including storing a plurality of images including at least one group image of the team members and images including individual team members participating in different events, and using a processor to automatically recognize the team members in the plurality of stored images and select a subset of the plurality of stored images for particular members of the team including images associated with at least two different events. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322708 | SECURITY BY Z-FACE DETECTION - A method for identifying a person using a mobile communication device, having a camera unit adapted for recording three-dimensional (3D) images, by recording a 3D image of the person's face using the camera unit, performing face recognition on the 2D image data in the recorded 3D image to determine at least two facial points on the 3D image the of person's face, determining a first distance between the at least two facial points in the 2D image data, determining a second distance between the at least two facial points using the depth data of the recorded 3D image, determining a third distance between the at least two facial points using the first distance and the second distance, and identifying the person by comparing the determined third distance to stored distances in a database, wherein each of the stored distances are associated with a person. | 12-05-2013 |
20130329968 | PREVENTING AN UNAUTHORIZED PUBLICATION OF A MEDIA OBJECT - Provided is a method of preventing an unauthorized publication of a media object. On receipt of a user request to prevent an unauthorized publication of a media object, a video link is established with the user. An image of the user is received from the video link and a determination is made whether the image of the user correspond with an image in the media object. Based on said determination an action is performed with regard to the unauthorized publication of the media object. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329969 | Tagging Data Utilizing Nearby Device Information - Data is automatically tagged utilizing information associated with nearby individuals, among other things. Location-based technology is leveraged to enable identification of individuals and associated devices within a distance of a data capture device. User information is acquired from proximate devices directly or indirectly before, during or after data recording. This information can be utilized to tag captured environmental data (e.g., images, audio, video . . . ), amongst other types, to facilitate subsequent location, filtration and/or organization. | 12-12-2013 |
20130329970 | IMAGE AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL PROGRAM FOR IMAGE AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE AUTHENTICATION METHOD - Disclosed is an image authentication apparatus that obtains registered images (R) by capturing images of people, and image-capturing conditions pertaining to the faces of the people in the registered images (R) registered in association with each other in a registered image database. The apparatus has a face-information data estimation unit for estimating face-information data of an inputted image (A | 12-12-2013 |
20130329971 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO SPEED UP FACE RECOGNITION - Method to customize an application associated with a television experience based on the recognition of users located in front of a display and in the field of view of a camera, comprising the following steps:—an initialization step during which each user is enrolled in a database of a computer system and is defined by a profile referenced by a profile ID and comprising the user name, biometric data and additional personal data,—a finding step during which a wide image, acquired by said camera is scanned to isolate at least one user's faces, to define a marking area surrounding it, to memorize the position of said marking areas,—a matching step to extract the biometric data from said marking area, to match them with the biometric data of the profiles stored in the database, and to assign the detected profile ID with the marking area. While subsequent identification is requested by the application, the following steps are executed—acquiring a wide image with the camera,—extracting the areas of said image according to the marking areas,—extracting for a particular marking area the biometric data of a face,—starting the comparison of the extracted biometric data with the biometric data of the profile ID related to this marking area, and in absence of match, continuing with the other biometric data of the database until one profile is found,—transmitting the found profile ID to the application. | 12-12-2013 |
20130336548 | DEPTH-PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD OF DETECTING HUMAN FACE OR HEAD - A depth-photographing method of detecting human face or head includes the steps of using the specific light to illuminate the target under an environmental light, receiving and detecting the reflected light from the target with the detector, generating first depth detecting information corresponding to the depth of the target, turning off the specific light, detecting another reflected light from the target, generating second depth detecting information corresponding to the depth of the target, performing the detection/calculation process based on the first and second depth detecting information to generate the appearance of the target, determining if the appearance of the target represents a human face or head, and if yes, generating depth-photographing detection information used to cancel a lock state, thereby avoiding unintentionally entering power saving (or standby mode), speeding up entering the desired power saving or dynamically changing/adjusting the display content. | 12-19-2013 |
20140010418 | LIP ACTIVITY DETECTION - Provided is a method of detecting lip activity. The method determines magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region of a detected face. The ratio of magnitude of optical flow in lip region and at least one non-lip region is compared against a threshold. If the ratio is found to be greater than the threshold, lip activity of the detected face is recognized. | 01-09-2014 |
20140010419 | IMAGE VERIFICATION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE VERIFICATION PROGRAM, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE VERIFICATION METHOD - An image verification device that checks an input image obtained by photographing an object to be checked against a registered image database, wherein, in the registered image database, an amount of feature of an image obtained by photographing an object is registered as a registered image, and the registered image includes registered images registered with respect to a plurality of objects, has a verification score calculating unit that calculates a verification score serving as a score representing a degree of approximation between the objects indicated by the registered images and the object of the input image by using the amount of feature of the input image and the amounts of feature of the registered images, and a relative evaluation score calculating unit. | 01-09-2014 |
20140016835 | HUMAN IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM BY FUSION OF FACE RECOGNITION AND SPEAKER RECOGNITION, METHOD AND SERVICE ROBOT THEREOF - The present invention discloses a human identification system by fusion of face recognition and speaker recognition, a method and a service robot thereof. The system fuses results of the face recognition and the speaker recognition, and further uses confidence index to estimate the confidence level of the two recognition results. If only one of the confidence indices of the two recognition results reaches the threshold, then only this result is used as the output. If both confidence indices of the two recognition results reach the threshold, then the two recognition results are fused to output as a final result. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016836 | FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Apparatus for face recognition, the apparatus comprising: a face symmetry verifier, configured to verify symmetry of a face in at least one image, according to a predefined symmetry criterion, and a face identifier, associated with the face symmetry verifier, and configured to identify the face, provided the symmetry of the face is successfully verified. | 01-16-2014 |
20140016837 | FACIAL RECOGNITION - An example method includes receiving a first image and a second image of a face of a user, where one or both images have been granted a match by facial recognition. The method further includes detecting a liveness gesture based on at least one of a yaw angle of the second image relative to the first image and a pitch angle of the second image relative to the first image, where the yaw angle corresponds to a transition along a horizontal axis, and where the pitch angle corresponds to a transition along a vertical axis. The method further includes generating a liveness score based on a yaw angle magnitude and/or a pitch angle magnitude, comparing the liveness score to a threshold value, and determining, based on the comparison, whether to deny authentication to the user with respect to accessing one or more functionalities controlled by the computing device. | 01-16-2014 |
20140023246 | INTELLIGENT BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION OF A PARTICIPANT ASSOCIATED WITH A MEDIA RECORDING - A media recording within a data store of a computing device can be identified. The media can be a photograph or a video. The media can be analyzed to determine a participant associated with the media. The participant can be a creator or a subject. The identity of the participant can be determined utilizing biometrics associated with an identity source. The identity can be associated with a confidence score which can indicate the accuracy of the identity. The identity source can be associated with a weighted value which can represent the validity of identity data associated with the source. The identity of the participant can be automatically tagged within the media. The tagging can be a participant name or participant user name. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023247 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION DEVICE, IMAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD, IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, IMAGE RECOGNITION AND AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND IMAGE RECEPTION DEVICE - An image transmission device includes an image input unit that inputs a plurality of continuous images, a data amount reduction unit that reduces an amount of data of the plurality of images that are input to the image input unit, and generates a data amount reduced image, and a transmission unit that transmits the data amount reduced image to an image reception device that performs a recognition/authentication process with respect to the data amount reduced image. The data amount reduction unit reduces the amount of data of the plurality of images by a reduction method corresponding to the recognition/authentication process that is performed in the image reception device. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023248 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING PRIVACY INFORMATION BASED ON FACE RECOGNITION - An apparatus and method protects leakage of privacy information by detecting a specific person using a face recognition technology from a video image stored in a video surveillance system and performing privacy masking or mosaic processing on a face of the specific person or faces of other people. | 01-23-2014 |
20140029810 | SECURING INFORMATION USING ENTITY DETECTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method are provided where the method includes receiving information from an image processing source that includes one or more images of a view area associated with a device, wherein the view area is an area located in front of a display screen associated with the device, wherein the view area enables one or more entities to view the display screen; determining one or more entities located within the view area based at least in part on the one or more images of the view area associated with the device; validating the one or more entities located within the view area; and when an entity within the view area is not validated, producing a security response. | 01-30-2014 |
20140037154 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING A NAME OF A PERSON APPEARING IN AN IMAGE - A computer-implemented method of automatically determining a name of a person appearing in an image includes receiving a collection of web pages containing a plurality of images. For each of the images, a set of names associated with the image is identified based on a text analysis of at least one of the web pages. Face detection and clustering is performed on the plurality of images to generate a plurality of face clusters. For each of the face clusters, a label for the face cluster is identified based on the set of names associated with each image in the face cluster. A name of a first person appearing in at least one of the images is determined based on the identified label for one of the face clusters associated with the first person. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037155 | VALIDATION SYSTEM FOR REGISTER CONFIRMATION AND/OR ACCESS AUTHORIZATION FOR NATURAL PERSONS USING BIOMETRIC FACIAL RECOGNITIONVALIDATION SYSTEM FOR REGISTER CONFIRMATION AND/OR ACCESS AUTHORIZATION FOR NATURAL PERSONS USING BIOMETRIC FACIAL RECOGNITION - Validation system for register confirmation and/or access authorization for natural persons using biometric facial recognition, a people authentication system complementary to conventional fraud prevention systems, made through the biometric facial image capture and his/her registration in single database associated with the natural persons register document, which will be validated or not after the parameterization, also used to control the access of persons in industrial, commercial and residential environments via biometric facial recognition, since the due registration is performed. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037156 | LIVENESS DETECTION - The present disclosure concerns a method of verifying the presence of a living face in front of a camera ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140037157 | ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING APPARATUS, ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING METHOD, ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING PROGRAM, AND ADJACENT PERSON SPECIFYING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus that obtains content data and first position information corresponding to the content data; obtains second position information corresponding to a second person having a predetermined relationship with a first person associated with creating the content data; and associates identification corresponding to the second person with the content data based on a predetermined relationship between the first position information and the second position information. | 02-06-2014 |
20140050372 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION - Apparatus and methods for facial detection are disclosed. A plurality of images of an observed face is received for identification. Based at least on two or more selected images of the plurality of images, a template of the observed face is generated. In some embodiments, the template is a subspace generated based on feature vectors of the plurality of received images. A database of identities and corresponding facial data of known persons is searched based at least on the template of the observed face and the facial data of the known persons. One or more identities of the known persons are selected based at least on the search. | 02-20-2014 |
20140050373 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS THAT AUTHENTICATES OBJECT, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An authentication apparatus capable of reducing erroneous authentication. A face detection section detects a face area of an object from an image. A feature information extraction processor extracts feature information (image data) indicative of a feature of the object. An authentication determination section performs authentication by comparing registered image data and feature information of a specific object. A registration information processor determines, when one of objects associated with registered image data items is selected as an object to which the feature information of the specific object is to be added, whether or not to additionally register the feature information of the specific object as image data for the selected object, according to a degree of similarity between image data of the selected object and the feature information of the specific object. | 02-20-2014 |
20140050374 | USING RELEVANCE FEEDBACK IN FACE RECOGNITION - Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and presented to the user as sorted search result images. The user may provide explicit or implicit feedback regarding the search result images. Additional feedback may be inferred regarding the search result images based on the user-provided feedback, and the results may be updated based on the user-provided and inferred feedback. | 02-20-2014 |
20140056489 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING MEDIA - A method, computer program product, and computer system for determining, on a computing device, a feature of an object associated with at least a portion of media. A value is associated with the feature of the object. A score of the object is determined based, at least in part, on the value associated with the feature. A determination is made whether to share an identity of the object based, at least in part, on the score of the object. | 02-27-2014 |
20140056490 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, AN IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - According to one embodiment, an image recognition apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a detection unit, an extraction unit, a calculation unit, and a matching unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an image. The detection unit is configured to detect a face region of a target person to be recognized from the image. The extraction unit is configured to extract feature data of the face region. The calculation unit is configured to calculate a confidence degree of the feature data, based on a size of the face region. The matching unit is configured to calculate a similarity between the target person and each of a plurality of persons by matching the feature data with respective feature data of the plurality of persons previously stored in a database, and to recognize the target person from the plurality of persons, based on the similarities and the confidence degree. | 02-27-2014 |
20140056491 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER - A method of deriving authentication data comprises selecting an illumination configuration from a plurality of predetermined illumination configurations; illuminating at least a part of the user in a manner corresponding to the selected illumination configuration; capturing an image of at least a portion of the illuminated user; and determining whether to authenticate the user based on the captured image. | 02-27-2014 |
20140056492 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE IDENTITY VERIFICATION - A system controlling online access to a study course verifies the identity of an individual taking a study course over a global computer network from a first computer at a node of the network. The first computer has a biometric identification program and communicates over the network with a second computer that is at a network node other than a node of the first computer. The second computer includes study program material. The first computer operates a biometric reader, which obtains a first set of biometric data from the individual and a second set of biometric data from the individual while access is granted to course material. The biometric identification program compares the first set of data with the second set of data to make a verification of the identity of the individual and communicates the verification to the second computer. | 02-27-2014 |
20140064576 | Automatic Media Distribution - In accordance with some embodiments, wireless devices may automatically form ad hoc networks to enable more efficient sharing of media between the devices and in some cases more efficient facial recognition of captured media. In some embodiments, automatic story development may be implemented at the local level without involving backend servers. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064577 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Image data in which persons are captured is accumulated in association with information indicating dates of taking the image data, the image data is subjected to person recognition processing for recognizing the captured persons, and image data in which a person of interest is captured is extracted. Actual age information of the person of interest for each piece of the extracted image data is obtained, and estimated age information of the person of interest which estimated age information is obtained by estimating the age of the captured person of interest from the image data is obtained. Age correcting information is generated on a basis of a result of statistical arithmetic operation on the actual age information calculated for each piece of the extracted image data and the estimated age information corresponding to each piece of the actual age information and estimated from the image data. | 03-06-2014 |
20140072184 | AUTOMATED IMAGE IDENTIFICATION METHOD - The present invention discloses a method to construct template images for recognition, including the steps of: obtaining a plurality of digitized images belonging to n categories; for all categories, extracting common features for images belonging to a category; comparing common features of said category with common features of other categories other than category, to obtain discriminating features for the category; and including such features into representative features to obtain template images. A method to recognize an input image using the template images so obtained is also disclosed. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072185 | Biometric Identification Systems and Methods - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of verifying an identity of a person-to-be-identified using biometric signature data. The method comprises creating a sample database based on biometric signature data from a plurality of individuals, calculating a feature database by extracting selected features from entries in the sample database, calculating positive samples and negative sampled based on entries in the feature database, calculating a key bin feature using an adaptive boosting learning algorithm, the key bin feature distinguishing each of the positive samples and negative samples, and calculating a classifier from the key bin feature for use in identifying and authenticating a person-to-be-identified. | 03-13-2014 |
20140079297 | Application of Z-Webs and Z-factors to Analytics, Search Engine, Learning, Recognition, Natural Language, and Other Utilities - Here, we introduce Z-webs, including Z-factors and Z-nodes, for the understanding of relationships between objects, subjects, abstract ideas, concepts, or the like, including face, car, images, people, emotions, mood, text, natural language, voice, music, video, locations, formulas, facts, historical data, landmarks, personalities, ownership, family, friends, love, happiness, social behavior, voting behavior, and the like, to be used for many applications in our life, including on the search engine, analytics, Big Data processing, natural language processing, economy forecasting, face recognition, dealing with reliability and certainty, medical diagnosis, pattern recognition, object recognition, biometrics, security analysis, risk analysis, fraud detection, satellite image analysis, machine generated data analysis, machine learning, training samples, extracting data or patterns (from the video, images, and the like), editing video or images, and the like. Z-factors include reliability factor, confidence factor, expertise factor, bias factor, and the like, which is associated with each Z-node in the Z-web. | 03-20-2014 |
20140079298 | Digital Image Search System And Method - A method and system for of identifying an unknown individual from a digital image is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the present invention allows an individual to photograph a facial image an unknown individual, transfer that facial image to a server for processing into a feature vector, and then search social networking Web sites to obtain information on the unknown individual. The Web sites comprise myspace.com, facebook.com, linkedin.com, www.hi5.com, www.bebo.com, www.friendster.com, www.igoogle.com, netlog.com, and orkut.com. A method of networking is also disclosed. A method for determining unwanted individuals on a social networking website is also disclosed. | 03-20-2014 |
20140079299 | PERSON RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes input unit, detecting unit, extraction unit, storage, selection unit, determination unit, output unit, and setting unit. The selection unit selects operation or setting modes. In operation mode, it is determined whether captured person is preregistered person. In setting mode, threshold for the determination is set. The determination unit determines, as registered person and when operation mode is selected, person with degree of similarity between extracted facial feature information and stored facial feature information of greater than or equal to threshold. The setting unit sets, when setting mode is selected, threshold based on first and second degrees of similarity. First degree of similarity is degree of similarity between facial feature information of the registered person and the stored facial feature information. Second degree of similarity is degree of similarity between facial feature information of person other than registered person and stored facial feature information. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086456 | Using Facial Recognition to Match Reproductive Tissue Donors and Recipients - The Precision Donor System uses facial recognition software to allow reproductive tissue recipients (patients) to more closely match with reproductive tissue donors. Confidence in the selection of a donor leads to a greater acceptance of the child produced using the donor tissue. Using the program allows anonymous donors to remain anonymous. Patients can remain anonymous while feeling confident that the choice of donor they are making is the best match. The closer patients can match to their donors, the easier they can accept the necessity of using donor tissue, and the children produced. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086457 | Method And System For Attaching A Metatag To A Digital Image - A system and method for tagging an image of an individual in a plurality of photos is disclosed herein. A feature vector of an individual is used to analyze a set of photos on a social networking website such as www.facebook.com to determine if an image of the individual is present in a photo of the set of photos. Photos having an image of the individual are tagged preferably by listing a URL or URI for each of the photos in a database. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086458 | MEDIA TAGGING - Tagging techniques use user interface features such as face icons that can be manipulated by a variety of cursors to tag media items including but not limited to photos. Tagged items can be presented automatically in response to establishing network communications between two devices. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093141 | Method And System For Attaching A Metatag To A Digital Image - A system and method for tagging an image of an individual in a plurality of photos is disclosed herein. A feature vector of an individual is used to analyze a set of photos on a social networking website such as www.facebook.com to determine if an image of the individual is present in a photo of the set of photos. Photos having an image of the individual are tagged preferably by listing a URL or URI for each of the photos in a database. | 04-03-2014 |
20140093142 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus capable of performing face recognition with high accuracy. An information processing apparatus, comprising: generation means for generating, based on an original facial image, a plurality of facial images, each of the facial images corresponds to the original facial image facing to a different direction each other; feature value extraction means for extracting feature values of the facial images based on the plurality of facial images generated by the generation means; feature value synthesis means for generating a synthesized feature value by synthesizing the feature values which are extracted by the feature value extraction means; and recognition means for performing face recognition based on the synthesized feature value. | 04-03-2014 |
20140099004 | MANAGING REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - An example method includes receiving, by a host system including at least one processor, a first video stream from a first client device and a second video stream from a second client device, where the host system, the first client device, and the second client device are communicatively coupled to a real-time communication session. The method further includes detecting, by the host system and in the second video stream, a disconnection condition including at least one of a visual disconnection condition and an auditory disconnection condition. The method further includes responsive to detecting the disconnection condition, disconnecting, by the host system, the second client device from the real-time communication session. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099005 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A face authentication procedure is performed on a face detected in a visible light image of a scene, and correctness of an authentication determination of the face authentication procedure is verified by comparing the visible light image to an infrared light image of the same scene. The verification may be performed by comparing the luminance and/or the size of an eye region in the visible light image to the luminance and/or the size of the eye region in the infrared light image. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105466 | INTERACTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD EMPLOYING FACIAL RECOGNITION - A system and method for providing social photography services at locations such as Cruise Ship and Theme Parks with the purpose of giving a customer a unique identifier, associating the unique identifier with a reference imagine of the customer, and matching reference images to images shot at the locale using facial recognition techniques. A photograph gallery application is also provided, allowing customers and employees to access the facially recognized images for viewing, purchasing, and printing. This system and method employs computer based technology and facial recognition to provide fast and accurate photography production, processing, selection, printing, and sale. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105467 | Image Classification And Information Retrieval Over Wireless Digital Networks And The Internet - A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105468 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus including an image display unit that displays an image in a predetermined position, an imaging unit that images a face of a person, and an image selection unit that selects, based on a state of the face imaged by the imaging unit, an image having face parameters concerning the state. The image display unit displays the image selected by the image selection unit in a manner that a face portion of the image selected by the image selection unit matches a face portion of the image displayed up to immediately. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112551 | SECONDARY INFORMATION FOR AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM MATRIX BAR CODE FUNCTION - An information handling system analyzes secondary information captured with an image of a two-dimensional barcode to perform a function. For example, a mobile phone camera captures an image of a QR code at a product plus characters printed next to the QR code, uses optical code recognition to determine the characters, and applies information from the QR code and the characters to register the product. As another example, a security indicator is captured with an image of the QR code and applied to access information of the QR code, such as by using GPS position information, local network information, or telephone number information to encrypt and/or decrypt information stored in the QR code. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112552 | LOW THRESHOLD FACE RECOGNITION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are disclosed for reducing the impact of lighting conditions and biometric distortions, while providing a low-computation solution for reasonably effective (low threshold) face recognition. In one aspect, the methods include processing a captured image of a face of a user seeking to access a resource by conforming a subset of the captured face image to a reference model. The reference model corresponds to a high information portion of human faces. The methods further include comparing the processed captured image to at least one target profile corresponding to a user associated with the resource, and selectively recognizing the user seeking access to the resource based on a result of said comparing. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112553 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring a captured image; extracting a first feature amount and a second feature amount of a user included in the image, and a third feature amount indicative of a likelihood of a portion from which the second feature amount is extracted; generating an authentication table including a plurality of the first feature amounts, a plurality of the second feature amounts, and a plurality of the third feature amounts extracted from a plurality of the images; and selecting the third feature amount extracted at authentication of the user, and the first feature amount and the second feature amount included in the authentication table, based on the third feature amount included in the authentication table, and authenticating the user based on the first feature amount. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112554 | USER RECOGNITION AND CONFIRMATION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND CENTRAL CONTROL SYSTEM FOR VEHICLES USING THE SAME - A user recognition and confirmation device includes an image sensing unit, a face recognition unit, a display unit and an expression recognition unit. The image sensing unit captures a first image frame and a second image frame. The face recognition unit is configured to recognize a user ID according to the first image frame. The display unit is configured to show ID information of the user ID. The expression recognition unit is configured to confirm a user expression according to the second image frame and output a confirm signal. There is further provided a user recognition and confirmation method and a central control system for vehicles. | 04-24-2014 |
20140119618 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FACE RECOGNITION - A control method of an apparatus for face recognition includes acquiring an image through an image acquirer, extracting a facial image from the acquired image, determining whether the extracted facial image meets a predetermined quality condition to decide use/non-use of the extracted facial image and performing a face recognizing operation by using the extracted facial image if the extracted facial image meets the predetermined quality condition. | 05-01-2014 |
20140133713 | Method, Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Recording Medium for Authenticating a User - Provided are a method, apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium for authenticating a user. The user authentication method includes scanning a face by operating a camera to obtain a scanned facial image, and comparing the scanned facial image with a facial image registered in a storage. Even if the scanned facial image is mismatched to the registered facial image, a password/pattern is requested. If an input password/pattern matches a registered password/pattern, a device can be unlocked. Additionally, the scanned facial image in the storage may be updated. | 05-15-2014 |
20140140583 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECT - There are provided an image recognition apparatus and an image recognition method according to which, when registering a face model for a face image, face images are sequentially acquired from frames of a moving image, feature amounts are extracted from the sequentially acquired face images, and a hypersphere defined by Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) is obtained from the group of training samples. Then, training samples in a boundary region of the hypersphere are registered as boundary samples. When performing matching of a face image of a recognition target, the reliability is calculated using the boundary samples, and a person with the highest reliability is output as a recognition result. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140584 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PERSONAL INFORMATION OF CLIENT, RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF, AND POS SYSTEMS - This invention is a method and a device for generating customer's personal information, a computer-readable recording medium and a POS system. It is organized into the following three stages as a method for generating customer's personal information for a POS system composed of POS terminals and all the servers or a network server: (a) stage where the above customer's facial area is detected from the image extracted from the image input via an image input apparatus installed at the task location of the above POS terminal; (b) stage where a facial feature point is detected from the facial area extracted above; and (c) stage where at least one of the information related to the above customer's gender and age is estimated based on the facial area and the facial feature point extracted above to generate personal information. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT DATA TYPES - There is described a system and method for automatically discriminating between different types of data with an image reader. In brief overview of one embodiment, the automatic discrimination feature of the present image reader allows a human operator to aim a hand held image reader at a target that can contain a dataform and actuate the image reader. An autodiscrimination module in the image reader in one embodiment analyzes image data representative of the target and determines a type of data represented in the image data. | 05-22-2014 |
20140147020 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE MEDIA SERVICES - A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a group of facial objects detected from an image captured by a camera coupled with a media device where the facial objects correspond to a plurality of users, determining authentication information for each of the plurality of users based on the facial objects, and providing the authentication information to a group of content service systems for enabling the media device to access aggregated media services from the group of content service systems. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147021 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING INTERACTION WITH AN OBJECT VIEWABLE VIA A DISPLAY - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate interaction with a computing device, such as interaction with an object viewable via a display of a computing device. In the context of a method, an object viewable via a display is identified, such as by facial recognition. The method also includes determining that the object has become aligned with an operation indicator as a result of movement of the display relative to the object. In response to determining that the object is aligned with the operation indicator, the method also performs an operation associated with the operation indicator. In this regard, a method may perform the operation upon at least one aspect associated with the object. Corresponding apparatus and computer program products are also provided. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147022 | Facial Landmark Localization By Exemplar-Based Graph Matching - Systems and methods are discussed to localize facial landmarks using a test facial image and a set of training images. The landmarks can be localized on a test facial image using training facial images. A plurality of candidate landmark locations on the test facial image can be determined. A subset of the training facial images with facial features similar to the facial features in the test facial image can be identified. A plurality of shape constraints can be determined for each test facial image in the subset of test facial images. These shape constraints graphically relate to one landmark location from a linear combination of the other landmark locations in the test facial image. Shape constraints can be determined for every landmark within each test facial image. A candidate landmark can be chosen from the plurality of candidate landmarks using the shape constraints. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147023 | Face Recognition Method, Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Recording Medium for Executing the Method - The present disclosure relates to a face recognition method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium for executing the method. According to some aspects of the present disclosure, the face recognition method includes: (a) a key point setting step of setting key points at designated positions on an input face image; (b) a key point descriptor extracting step of extracting each descriptor for each key point; and (c) a matching step of determining whether the input face image matches pre-stored face images using descriptors for key points within a designated region including each descriptor for each first key point obtained from the input face image, and second key points of pre-stored face images which correspond to first key points obtained from the input face image. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147024 | SAFE ILLUMINATION FOR COMPUTERIZED FACIAL RECOGNITION - In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes setting an IR (infrared) level to a first predetermined level. The method also includes reading an image and determining if a face is detected. If a face is not detected, the method sets the IR level to zero and waits a first predetermined amount of time. The method further includes repeating the setting the IR level to the first predetermined level and the reading an image. The method also includes determining a face is detected. The method further includes setting the IR level to a second predetermined level. The method also includes reading an image and determining if a face is recognized. The method may further include setting the IR level to zero and waiting a second predetermined amount of time. The method may also include setting the IR level to the first predetermined level, reading an image and determining if a face is detected. | 05-29-2014 |
20140161326 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFICATION AND SHARING OF DIGITAL IMAGES WITH FACE SIGNATURES - Methods and systems are provided for sharing a digital image depicting one or more faces. The method may include linking a plurality of computer terminals to a computer network, each computer terminal associated with an individual; receiving a digital image at at least one of the computer terminals; executing a face recognition routine on the digital image, the face recognition routine detecting at least one face in the digital image, each detected face corresponding to a person, the face recognition routine recognizing at least one of the persons as being one of the individuals; and for each individual recognized in the digital image by the face recognition routine, initiating dissemination of the digital image to the computer terminal associated with respective individual whose face is recognized in the digital image. | 06-12-2014 |
20140169643 | FACE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, FACE AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND FACE AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM - Provided is a face authentication system ( | 06-19-2014 |
20140169644 | Photo Importance Determination - In embodiments of photo importance determination, a photo analyzer is implemented to analyze the image content of each photo in a set of digital photos, and determine similar photos based on the image content and metadata of the digital photos. The photo analyzer can then create stacks of the similar photos and determine a representative photo from the similar photos in each stack. The photo analyzer can then determine a display sequence to display non-stacked photos and the representative photos of each stack. The photo analyzer can also receive viewer feedback associated with the digital photos being displayed for viewing, and then determine a different representative photo from the similar photos in each of the stacks based on the viewer feedback. The photo analyzer can also determine a revised display sequence of the non-stacked photos and the representative photos of the stacks based on the viewer feedback. | 06-19-2014 |
20140193047 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AUTOFLOW OF CONTENT BASED ON IMAGE AND USER ANALYSIS AS WELL AS USE CASE DATA FOR A MEDIA-BASED PRINTABLE PRODUCT - In some embodiments, a server for creating photo-based projects is disclosed. The server executes a method for establishing a client-server connection between the server and a user-operated computer connected to the network, receiving images from the computer and storing the images in the a data repository, receiving a use-case identifier, performing photo analysis on the images, comprising: identifying similar images, identifying faces in the images, identifying objects in the images, identifying undesirable images and identifying relevant portions of the images, performing use-case specific heuristics on the images, comprising: grouping similar images, grouping images having identical faces, grouping images having identical objects, removing undesirable images, and cropping images to highlight relevant portions of said images, and, generating an ordered project subsequent to execution of the use-case specific heuristics, wherein the ordered project comprises the images placed in a particular order and pre-processed for printing in book form. | 07-10-2014 |
20140193048 | Retrieving Visual Media - Examples of the present disclosure may include methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions. An example method for retrieving visual media can include receiving a text query associated with a target content. A first group of visual media is identified based on correspondence of metadata of the visual media with the text query, and keyframes from the first group of identified visual media are selected. The method further includes detecting instances of a content type in the selected keyframes, and grouping similar instances of the content type into clusters. The target content is associated with a cluster having a greatest quantity of similar instances. | 07-10-2014 |
20140205157 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: obtaining a first image and a second image; determining a first direction of a certain first reference point of a first region of a user included in the first image and a second direction of a certain second reference point of a second region of the user included in the second image; extracting a first feature quantity from the first region and a second feature quantity from the second region; generating a third feature quantity from the first feature quantity or a fourth feature quantity from the second feature quantity on the basis of the first direction or the second direction; and authenticating the user on the basis of similarity between the first feature quantity or the third feature quantity. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205158 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a grouping unit that detects a part of an object from contents and performs grouping of each object, a correlation degree calculating unit that calculates a correlation degree between the objects of which the grouping is performed by the grouping unit, and a display control unit that controls a display of a diagram of a correlation between the objects indicating the correlation between the objects, based on the correlation degree between the objects which is calculated by the correlation degree calculating unit. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205159 | WRINKLE DETECTION METHOD, WRINKLE DETECTION DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING WRINKLE DETECTION PROGRAM, AS WELL AS WRINKLE EVALUATION METHOD, WRINKLE EVALUATION DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING WRINKLE EVALUATION PROGRAM - A wrinkle detection method comprises the steps of obtaining face data of a subject; setting one or more analytical regions on the obtained face data; producing plural pieces of wrinkle component extracted data by extracting wrinkle components extending in one direction or in plural directions at different angles from each other in an angle range in which wrinkles tend to extend and which is set in advance for the set one or more analytical regions; producing plural pieces of wrinkle component emphasized data corresponding to the pieces of wrinkle component extracted data, respectively, by emphasizing the wrinkle components; producing composite data by combining the pieces of wrinkle component emphasized data; and detecting a wrinkle component having an intensity equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value from the composite data as a wrinkle of the subject. | 07-24-2014 |
20140219517 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR EFFICIENTLY RECOGNIZING FACES OF IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH VARIOUS ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS - An apparatus for recognizing faces with different illuminations may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including detecting and extracting face data of a first candidate face of a first image and a second candidate face of a second image. The first image is associated with a first light intensity and the second image associated with a second light intensity different from the first light intensity. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to analyze face data to determine whether the first candidate face corresponds to an area in the first image that is substantially the same as an area of the second candidate face and evaluate data of the first and second areas to determine whether the first and second candidate faces are valid or invalid faces. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219518 | ESTIMATING APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - An estimating apparatus configured to estimate a correct attribute value is provided. The estimating apparatus extracts feature quantities from an image including a person, calculates a first likelihood of the feature quantity for respective attribute classes; calculating second likelihoods for the respective attribute classes from the first likelihoods for the respective attribute classes; specifies the attribute class having the highest second likelihood; calculates an estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class and estimated attribute values of selected classes by using the feature quantity; and applies the second likelihood on the estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class as a weight, applies the second likelihoods on the estimated attribute values of the selected classes as a weight and add the same, and calculates a corrected attribute value of the specific attribute class. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219519 | TRAFFIC CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD THEREOF, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - There is provided a traffic control apparatus including: an image input unit configured to input an image including a face of a user; a face detecting unit configured to detect a face area of the user from the image; a generating unit configured to obtain a difference between a state of the detected face area and a state of a optimal face area, and generate presentation information for instructing the user to move his or her face to a position suitable for the face recognition when the difference is large; and a noticing unit having a plurality of keys arranged in a matrix pattern, and configured to illuminate, blink, or extinguish one or the plurality of keys for specifying the position that the face is to be moved to on the basis of the presentation information. | 08-07-2014 |
20140233811 | SUMMARIZING A PHOTO ALBUM - Embodiments generally relate to summarizing a photo album. In one embodiment, a method includes grouping photos into a plurality of groups of photos, and selecting a plurality of representative photos, where each representative photo represents a respective group from the plurality of groups, where the selecting is based on a quality score of each of the photos, and where each quality score is based on different types of attributes. The method also includes providing the plurality of representative photos to a user. | 08-21-2014 |
20140241592 | Systems and Methods for Automatic Image Editing - Various embodiments are disclosed for automatic image editing. One embodiment is a method for editing an image in an image editing device that comprises obtaining the image and analyzing attributes of the image, wherein the attributes correspond to facial attributes of at least one individual shown in the image. The method further comprises retrieving from a database a modification previously obtained by the image editing device, wherein retrieving the modification is performed based on the analyzed attributes of the image. The retrieved modification is applied to the image based on the attributes of the image. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241593 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An authentication apparatus includes a feature acquiring unit that acquires a feature of an authentication target; an extracting unit that extracts one or more registered persons having features similar to the acquired feature; a determining unit that determines whether any registered person having a feature similar to the feature of at least one extracted registered person exits in the registered persons; a first identifying unit that, if the determination is negative, identifies the registered person having the feature having a highest degree of similarity with the acquired feature as the authentication target; a specific information accepting unit that accepts information specific to the authentication target; and a second identifying unit that, if the determination is affirmative and the accepted specific information coincides with the information specific to any extracted registered person, identifies the registered person having the coinciding specific information as the authentication target. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241594 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An information processing apparatus which communicates with an external apparatus having a face authentication function, comprises a unit which acquires a type of the authentication function of the external apparatus from the external apparatus; a unit which receives image data held in the external apparatus and a face feature amount used by the external apparatus for the authentication function; and a unit which controls, in accordance with a result of comparing a type of a face authentication function of the information processing apparatus with the type of the authentication function of the external apparatus, whether to use the received face feature amount for the authentication function of the information processing apparatus, or to re-generate, from the received image data, a face feature amount corresponding to the type of the authentication function of the information processing apparatus. | 08-28-2014 |
20140254890 | PREDICTIVE THEFT NOTIFICATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF THEFT - Predictive theft notifications are used to coordinate appropriate responses to persons who are likely to commit acts of theft. Image data is generated and processed in a computer processing device to recognize the presence of a facial image comprising a face of a person. An analysis is performed of data representative of the facial image to determine a biometric match relative to one or more biometric models of facial images stored in a database. Based on this analysis, at least one predictive notification is generated with regard to a future potential theft of merchandise from the secured facility. The predictive notification is generated based upon a determination of the biometric match. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254891 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING FACE IMAGES, AND APPARATUS FOR INDUCING POSE CHANGE, AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING FACES - A face image registration apparatus comprising: a face video image acquiring unit configured to acquire a front face image and at least one or more moving video images corresponding to predefined face pose changes; a similarity measurement unit configured to measure a similarity of the acquired front face image and each of the acquired at least one or more moving video images; an image selection unit configured to select at least images from the at least one or more moving video images based on the measured similarities; | 09-11-2014 |
20140254892 | FACE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING USERS BASED ON USER GROUPING - A face recognition apparatus comprising: a database that stores face information mapped to each corresponding user; a face recognition unit configured to recognize the face information of a user; a user management unit configured to classify the face information into groups of the users of which the face information is not similar one another so that the users having the similar face information does not fall within the same groups to store the classified face information in the database. | 09-11-2014 |
20140254893 | GLOBAL IDENTIFICATION (ID) AND AGE VERIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A multi-process identity and/or age verification process and system for user's connected to a network such as the Internet. The process and system verify the identity of the user by: verifying personal information of the user; verifying identification documentation associated with the user; and conducting an online face-to-face verification of the user over the network. | 09-11-2014 |
20140270406 | Suja's Aesthetic Grading SAG - check pattern - Techniques have been developed to measure and/or quantify beauty for facial aesthetic grading and for ‘Biometrics in facial aesthetics’. The ‘check pattern for aesthetic grading’ may be considered as another milestone towards an ideal proportion for facial aesthetics; this is a proof for the fact that in their respective spheres—space to matter and matter to space—all is adjusted in number, weight and measure. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270407 | ASSOCIATING METADATA WITH IMAGES IN A PERSONAL IMAGE COLLECTION - Various technologies pertaining to assigning metadata to images in a personal image collection of a user based upon images and associated metadata assigned thereto that are accessible to the user by way of a social network application are described. An account of the user in a social network application is accessed to retrieve images and metadata that is accessible to the user. A face recognition algorithm is trained based upon the retrieved images and metadata, and the trained face recognition algorithm is executed over the personal image collection of the user, where the personal image collection of the user is external to the social network application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270408 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMAGE - A device may request, and a server may provide, access to information associated with an image based on trusted face recognition. The server may receive a first image, registration, and associated information from a first device. The first image may include feature data, which the server may extract to create a first feature template. The server may store, and correlate, the first feature template, registration and associated information for the first image. A second device may extract feature data from a second image, create, and provide to the server, a second feature template. The server may authenticate the second device. The server may compare the second feature template with stored feature templates to identify a match. The server may determine whether to share associated information for a match with, and return an access indication to, the second device based, in part, on the authentication. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270409 | EFFICIENT PREVENTION OF FRAUD - This disclosure is directed to methods and systems for selective identification of biometric data for efficient compression. An evaluation module operating on a biometric device may determine if a set of acquired biometric data satisfies a quality threshold for subsequent automatic or manual recognition, while satisfying a set of predefined criteria for efficient compression of a corresponding type of biometric data, the determination performed prior to performing data compression on the acquired biometric data. The evaluation module may classify, decide or identify, based on the determination, whether to retain the acquired set of acquired biometric data for subsequent data compression. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270410 | FACIAL CAPTURE MANAGING ACCESS TO RESOURCES BY A DEVICE - Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling access to resources by a client device. Methods may include receiving a user request to access a resource on the device and determining whether the resource requires a facial capture. If the resource requires a facial capture, a camera of the device may be automatically activated to capture an image and the resource may be rendered on the device. In some cases, access to the resource may be limited based on whether the image includes a face or not. A record associating the image and the requested resource may be stored, for example, on the device or on a remote server. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270411 | Verification of User Photo IDs - The presence of a target object within a query image may be identified based on the spatial consistency of feature points matched between the query image and a template image describing the target object. A query image and a template image describing a target object to be sought in a query image are received. Feature points are extracted from the query image and the template image using a SIFT method. Query feature points are each matched to the nearest neighbor template feature point. A matched pair of query points is assigned a confidence indicator based on the distance between each parameter of the query feature point and template feature point. The confidence indicators are mapped within a binned four-dimensional space. If the number of confidence indicators mapped to any bin is greater than a threshold value, then the target object has been detected within the query image. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270412 | LIVENESS DETECTION SYSTEM BASED ON FACE BEHAVIOR - A liveness detection method comprising: receiving plural pictures of a video stream comprising a face and an adjacent background; determining motion of the face and the background, the motion determined over the plural pictures; comparing the motion between the face and the background; and determining whether the face corresponds to an actual, live user or an image of the user based on the comparison, the determinations performed by a processor. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286542 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING IMAGE PROCESSING OPERATIONS RELEVANT TO PARTICULAR IMAGERY - Image data, such as from a mobile phone camera, is analyzed to determine a colorfulness metric (e.g., saturation) or a contrast metric (e.g., Weber contrast). This metric is then used in deciding which of, or in which order, plural different image recognition processes should be invoked in order to present responsive information to a user. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286543 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING DIGITAL MEDIA BASED ON FACE RECOGNITION - In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus for organizing digital media, particularly digital photos, using face recognition. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a computer-based method for organizing digital photos comprises: extracting objects of interest from a plurality of photographs; cropping said plurality of photographs to generate images of isolated objects of interest; applying a recognition algorithm to determine the similarity of isolated objects of interest with a reference; displaying a plurality of objects arranged as a function of the determined similarity; and receiving user input to associate said objects with a particular classification. | 09-25-2014 |
20140294254 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING USER CERTIFICATION AND METHOD THEREOF - A method of certifying a user is provided. The method includes: generating a learning system; if a reference image is registered, analyzing the reference image by using the learning system to detect characteristic information; storing the detected characteristic information; photographing a user to acquire a user image; analyzing the user image by using the learning system to detect face characteristic information and additional information of the user; and comparing the face characteristic information and the additional information with stored characteristic information to certify the user. Therefore, a user certification is accurately performed. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294255 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE AUTHORIZATION OF A PERSON TO ACCESS A SECURE AREA - The present invention relates to a method for controlling the authorization of a person to access a secure area, in particular a cockpit of a passenger aircraft, comprising: (1) providing an access control apparatus for detecting a set of biometric features, which apparatus can be enabled by entering a predetermined access code; (2) transfer of the access code by the person to the access control apparatus; (3) detecting by means of the access control apparatus a set of biometric features of the person transferring the access code; (4) saving the set of biometric features of the person; and (5) subsequently enabling access for the person for a predetermined time period, wherein solely verifying the set of biometric features of the person seeking access allows access to be enabled again for the person during the predetermined time period. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294256 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image storage unit that stores a plurality images having supplementary information respectively, an image analysis unit that performs an image analysis of each image stored in the image storage unit; and a time correction unit that corrects an imaging time that is included in the supplementary information of the image in such a manner that the plurality of images are arranged in an actual imaging time of the images in a case where the plurality of images are arranged in an order of the imaging time among the supplementary information, based on at least one of a result of the image analysis by the image analysis unit and a GPS information that is included in the supplementary information of the images. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294257 | Methods and Systems for Obtaining Information Based on Facial Identification - The methods and systems disclosed enable the association of data with individuals, organizations, places, objects, things with information, or a rating or score. Computer vision is used to identify the subject or capture an image of the subject's face. A portable computing device, such as a wearable computer, may include the cameras, microphones, to capture the image and communicate with a remote server or data sources. Facial data is sent to the remote server processing facial recognition processing to match the facial data with an identity. Upon determining a match, information about the matching identity is transmitted to the user of the portable computing device. The information about the subject may be the identity, or business or social information, or interests and hobbies. A score may be assigned to the subject that rates one or more aspects of the subject. | 10-02-2014 |
20140294258 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING IMAGES - Systems and method for comparing images are disclosed. In particular, certain disclosed embodiments relate to determining whether a user of a mobile device corresponds to a previously authenticated user, the user having been previously authenticated via an identity document. The determination may be made by accessing an integrated circuit component of the identity document, capturing a first image corresponding to a portion of the identity document containing a photographic image of the previously authenticated user, and capturing a second image corresponding to a user of the mobile device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140301612 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR FRIEND RECOMMENDATIONS - A method is for friend recommendation which includes obtaining a first picture sent by a user, and determining one or more users associated with the first picture based on attribute information of the first picture. The method also includes, when it is determined that a total number of the users associated with the first picture is two or more, detecting whether a first user and a second user from the one or more users associated with the first picture are friends. Further, the method includes, when it is detected that the first user and the second user are not friends, sending friend recommendation information to one of the first user and the second user, wherein the friend recommendation information contains information of the other of the first user and the second. It is more likely that the friend recommendation information is of real interest of the users receiving the information. | 10-09-2014 |
20140301613 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING FACES - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for matching faces. The method includes receiving an image of a face of a first person from a device of a second person, comparing the image of the face of the first person to a database of known faces in a contacts list of the second person, identifying a group of potential matching faces from the database of known faces, and displaying to the second person the group of potential matching faces. In one variation, the method receives input selecting one face from the group of potential matching faces and displays additional information about the selected one face. In a related variation, the method displays additional information about one or more face in the displayed group of potential matching faces without receiving input. | 10-09-2014 |
20140307929 | FACIAL RECOGNITION - An example method includes receiving a first image and a second image of a face of a user, where one or both images have been granted a match by facial recognition. The method further includes detecting a liveness gesture based on at least one of a yaw angle of the second image relative to the first image and a pitch angle of the second image relative to the first image, where the yaw angle corresponds to a transition along a horizontal axis, and where the pitch angle corresponds to a transition along a vertical axis. The method further includes generating a liveness score based on a yaw angle magnitude and/or a pitch angle magnitude, comparing the liveness score to a threshold value, and determining, based on the comparison, whether to deny authentication to the user with respect to accessing one or more functionalities controlled by the computing device. | 10-16-2014 |
20140314284 | DATA ACQUISITION FOR MACHINE PERCEPTION SYSTEMS - Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for obtaining examples that break a visual expression classifier at user devices such as tablets, smartphones, personal computers, and cameras. The examples are sent from the user devices to a server. The server may use the examples to update the classifier, and then distribute the updated classifier code and/or updated classifier parameters to the user devices. The users of the devices may be incentivized to provide the examples that break the classifier, for example, by monetary reward, access to updated versions of the classifier, public ranking or recognition of the user, a self-rewarding game. The examples may be evaluated using a pipeline of untrained crowdsourcing providers and trained experts. The examples may contain user images and/or depersonalized information extracted from the user images. | 10-23-2014 |
20140321720 | MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORK DISTANCE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS USING PHOTOGRAPHS - There are provided a method, a system and a computer program product for using a digital image in a social network. The system receives the digital image. The system runs an image processing technique on the digital image. The system determines, based on the run image processing technique, a social distance between the users in the digital image. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321721 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM - The present invention aims to encourage the input of comment on content requiring the viewing user's input and prevent the comment from failing to be input in a case where the content is displayed and the viewing user inputs the comment on the content. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321722 | FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - The present invention provides a facial image display apparatus that can display moving images concentrated on the face when images of people's faces are displayed. A facial image display apparatus is provided wherein a facial area detecting unit ( | 10-30-2014 |
20140328521 | SOCIAL INTERACTION USING FACIAL RECOGNITION - A method for facilitating real-world interaction includes receiving information regarding geographical positions of a plurality of client devices, determining that a subset of the plurality of client devices are within a given distance of each other, matching a face detected in an image captured by one of the plurality of client devices to facial data stored in a user database, and providing, to the one of the plurality of client devices, information regarding a user associated with the facial data. | 11-06-2014 |
20140341442 | IMAGE MASKS FOR FACE-RELATED SELECTION AND PROCESSING IN IMAGES - In some implementations, a method includes identifying one or more face regions of an image, the face regions including pixels that depict at least a portion of one or more faces of persons. The face regions are identified based on identifying facial landmarks of the faces. The method determines an associated face mask for each of the faces based on the face regions, where each face mask indicates which pixels in the image depict the corresponding face. Face pixels can be selected for processing by applying the face masks, and image pixels outside the faces can be selected by inversely applying the face masks. The selected pixels can be provided to a processing operation for adjustment of the selected pixels. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341443 | JOINT MODELING FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION - This disclosure describes a system for jointly modeling images for use in performing facial recognition. A facial recognition system may jointly model a first image and a second image using a face prior to generate a joint distribution. Conditional joint probabilities are determined based on the joint distribution. A log likelihood ratio of the first image and the second image are calculated based on the conditional joint probabilities and the subject of the first image and the second image are verified as the same person or as different people based on results of the log likelihood ratio. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341444 | Systems and Methods for User Login - Systems and methods are provided for user login. For example, a login request from a first user is received, the login request being associated with fast login based on at least information associated with facial authentication; one or more first facial images of the first user are acquired; one or more first facial features are extracted from the one or more first facial images; the first facial features are compared with a predetermined feature template; and in response to a comparison result associated with the first facial features and the predetermined feature template exceeding a predetermined threshold, the first user is allowed to log in based on predetermined first user information of the first user. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341445 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION BASED ON FACE RECOGNITION, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure relates to a method for identity authentication based on face recognition. The method comprises: initiating an interaction authentication request, which includes requested interaction tracks, and sending the interaction authentication request to an authentication client; receiving face interaction information sent by the authentication client; extracting face action tracks from the face interaction information; determining whether the face action tracks are consistent with the requested interaction tracks; if the face action tracks are consistent with the requested interaction tracks, determining that the authentication is passed, otherwise determining that the authentication fails. The above solution could prevent the authentication server from being cheated by face pictures or videos taken previously and could ensure that the face pictures or videos passing the authentication is taken in real time from a real person. Besides, the present disclosure relates to a system for identity authentication based on face recognition and computer storage medium. | 11-20-2014 |
20140348398 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - According to at least one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a detector, a classifier and a display controller. The detector detects face images in images. The classifier classifies, based on the face images, one or more images corresponding to a first face into a first group and one or more images corresponding to a second face into a second group. The display controller displays on a screen, if a number of images in the first group is greater than or equal to a threshold and a number of images in the second group is less than the threshold, a first representative image of the first group that is distinguishable from a second representative image of the second group. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348399 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IMPROVING HUMAN FACE RECOGNITION - An image processing method includes following steps; capturing an image including a human face; executing a face detection in a predetermined area of the image; adjusting an exposure value of the predetermined area to an expected value when the face detection does not recognize the human face; executing the face detection and analyzing an image information in a face area of the image when the exposure value of the predetermined area reaches the expected value; and selecting a model parameter and an image adjusting parameter correspondingly according to the image information, processing the face area of the image, and outputting a processed image to a human face recognition system. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348400 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR CHARACTER INPUT - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for character input which has an input predicting function for presenting, to a user, a candidate group for a phrase predicted to be input by the user, the program causing a computer to execute: an image recognizing step of recognizing a person included in an image by image recognition when a character is being input to an application program handling the image; and a candidate adding step of adding a phrase related to the person recognized from the image to a candidate group of phrases to be presented when a character is being input to the application program. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355843 | 3D FACE RECOGNITION METHOD BASED ON INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY INFORMATION IN GEOMETRIC IMAGE - A 3D face recognition method based on intermediate frequency information in a geometric image as follows: (1) preprocessing a library and test models of 3D faces, including 3D face area cutting, smoothing processing and point cloud thinning, and discarding the lower portion of the face; (2) mapping the remainder of the face to a 2D grid using grid parameters, and performing linear interpolation on the 3D coordinates of the grid top to acquire the 3D coordinate attributes and generating a geometric image of a 3D face model; (3) performing multi-scale filtering with a multi-scale Haar wavelet filter to extract horizontal, vertical, and diagonal intermediate frequency information image images as invariable facial features; (4) calculating the similarity between the test model and the library set model with a wavelet domain structuring similarity algorithm; and (5) judging the test and library set model models with the maximum similarity belong to the same person. | 12-04-2014 |
20140363059 | RETAIL CUSTOMER SERVICE INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A retail store is provided with both physical retail products and a virtual interactive product display. A system is provided that monitors a customer's movements, product interactions, and purchase behavior while looking at both physical items and while using the virtual interactive product display. Emotional reactions to physical items and the virtual display are also tracked. User movement through the physical store is tracked using sensors placed throughout the store. Profiles of this movement are created anonymously, and then associated with known customer identities on the occurrence of an identification event. In-store, on-line, and virtual customer data are combined to create a comprehensive customer data store. A retail clerk uses smart eyewear to select a customer and request identification. Upon identification, a subset of the data store is downloaded for viewing through the smart eyewear to increase the effectiveness of the clerk when assisting the customer. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369571 | MEASUREMENT-TARGET-SELECTING DEVICE, FACE-SHAPE-ESTIMATING DEVICE, METHOD FOR SELECTING MEASUREMENT TARGET, AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING FACE SHAPE - A measurement-target-selecting device that is capable of estimating a face shape with high precision and at low computational time. In this device, a face texture assessment value calculating part ( | 12-18-2014 |
20140376785 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - A system for enhancing a facial expression includes a processing circuit is configured to receive video of a user, generate facial data corresponding to a face of the user, analyze the facial data to identify a facial expression, enhance the facial data based on the facial expression, and output modified video including the enhanced facial data. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376786 | ASSISTED PHOTO-TAGGING WITH FACIAL RECOGNITION MODELS - Embodiments of the invention perform assisted tagging of images, including tagging of people, locations, and activities depicted in those images. A batch of images is received comprising images of faces, including at least some faces that have not yet been tagged. A facial recognition algorithm is applied to the faces to determine matching data comprising possible tags for each untagged face. A logic engine applies logic rules to reduce the likelihood that certain matches are correct. The most likely match from among the possible matches is selected for suggestion to the user for verification. Once verified, the metadata of the image indicating the recognized people within the image is updated. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376787 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A personal authentication apparatus comprises an input unit configured to input image data; a face detection unit configured to detect a face region of a person included in the image data input by the input unit, and to detect feature data from the detected face region; a facial expression determination unit configured to determine a facial expression from the face region detected by the face detection unit; a storage unit configured to store feature data used to authenticate a person in correspondence with respective facial expressions of a plurality of faces; a selection unit configured to select feature data corresponding to the facial expression determined by the facial expression determination unit from the storage unit; and an authentication unit configured to authenticate a person by comparing the feature data of the face region detected by the face detection unit, and the feature data selected by the selection unit. | 12-25-2014 |
20150016693 | Method and Apparatus for Prioritizing Image Quality of a Particular Subject within an Image - A device capable of digital imaging detects multiple faces in image data received from an image sensor, performs pattern recognition to check if at least one of the detected faces is a priority face belonging to a ranked set of reference faces, adjusting at least one imaging related parameter (e.g., focus setting, exposure level, depth of focus in a plenoptic camera) of the device based on a region of interest (ROI) corresponding to the highest priority recognized face, and capturing an image. | 01-15-2015 |
20150023569 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND INTERACTIVE HUMAN FACE LOGIN METHOD - A portable electronic apparatus and an interactive human face login method are disclosed. The portable electronic apparatus comprises a face database, a user interface, an image capturing device, and a recognition circuit. The face database stores a plurality of facial expression feature information. The user interface randomly generates a plurality of facial expression indications used for guiding a user to sequentially show a plurality of facial expressions. The image capturing device captures the facial expressions to output a plurality of facial expression images. The recognition circuit receives a login request and determines whether the facial expressions are consistent with the facial expression indications according to the facial expression feature information and the facial expression images. The login request is allowed if the facial expressions are consistent with the facial expression indications. | 01-22-2015 |
20150030213 | System and Method for Creating a Virtual Backdrop - Some implementations may provide a method for generating a portrait of a subject for an identification document, the method including: receiving, at a mobile device, a photo image of the subject, the photo image including a foreground and a background, wherein the foreground includes the subject's face and the background does not include the subject's face; determining the background of the photo image based on the photo image alone and without user intervention; masking the determined background from the photo image; and subsequently generating the portrait of the subject based on the photo image with the background masked. | 01-29-2015 |
20150030214 | PROGRAMMABLE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a programmable display apparatus that enables post-hoc identification of a user who has been permitted to access an application through facial authentication. The programmable display apparatus stores feature data of a face of a user and identification information of the user in association with each other. The programmable display apparatus performs facial authentication based on image data of a user obtained through image capture and on the feature data. The programmable display apparatus permits a user to access the application if the user has been authenticated. The programmable display apparatus stores identification information of the authenticated user and a history indicating a state in which the access has been permitted in association with each other. | 01-29-2015 |
20150043790 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a registration unit, a display, and an authentication unit. The image capturing unit captures a face image of a user. The registration unit registers the captured face image. The display displays, in a case where a face image is to be captured and registered, a guide image for capturing, in addition to a first image which is the face image of the user, at least any one of an upward-oriented image and a downward-oriented image, the upward-oriented image being an image in which a face of the user is oriented upward relative to the first image, the downward-oriented image being an image in which the face is oriented downward relative to the first image. The authentication unit performs face authentication by comparing a face image obtained by the image capturing unit with a registered face image. | 02-12-2015 |
20150049922 | METHOD FOR LOGGING A USER IN TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A method is provided for logging a first user in to a mobile device being in a locked mode. The method comprising: storing a password associated with the first user and information that relates to a facial image of that first user; when the mobile device is in a locked mode: receiving a password inserted by a user; comparing the received password with the stored password and determining whether they match; if a match is found, prompting an image capturing device to capture an image; retrieving information that relates to a facial image from the captured image and comparing that information with the stored information; if the retrieved information matches the stored information, unlocking the mobile device. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049923 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes an instruction accepting unit, an obtaining unit, an extraction unit, a determination unit, and a permission unit. The instruction accepting unit is configured to accept an instruction from a user. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain an image. The extraction unit is configured to extract first biometric information and second biometric information from the image obtained by the obtaining unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether the first biometric information and the second biometric information are different. The permission unit is configured to permit execution of the instruction accepted by the instruction accepting unit in a case where the determination unit determines that the first biometric information and the second biometric information are different. | 02-19-2015 |
20150049924 | METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - The present disclosure discloses a method and a terminal device for processing an image. The method includes: acquiring an image; recognizing a face contained in the image; acquiring information of character features according to the face in the image; processing the image according to the information of character features; and obtaining the processed image. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, by automatically recognizing the face in the image, and acquiring the information of character features thereby acquiring a cosmetic process mode corresponding to the information of character features, and then processing the image according to the selected cosmetic process mode, manual setting of cosmetic process parameters can be avoided and the efficiency of image processing can be improved. | 02-19-2015 |
20150055834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED FACIAL RECOGNITION - A method, apparatus and computer program product for an improved facial recognition system are provided. Some embodiments may utilize a weighted block division of an image and capture a property measurement for pixels residing within a block. The measurements may be converted to vectors, compressed, and compared against compressed vectors of enrolled images to identify a characteristic or an image of a matching subject. Training processes may be utilized in order to optimize block divisions and weights. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055835 | Image Processing Apparatus and Storage Medium - An image processing apparatus including: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform: acquiring target image data and template image data; specifying a partial image in a target image based on a result of detecting a face area; and compositing the specified partial image in a specific area in a template image, wherein, when a single face area is detected, a first partial image including the single face area and having a size determined based on a size of the single face area is specified, and, when a plurality of face areas are detected, a second partial image including at least one of the face areas, having a shape homothetic to the specific area and having a maximum size within the target image is specified. | 02-26-2015 |
20150063656 | System and Method for Digitally Watermarking Digital Facial Portraits - Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: receiving a digitally watermarked digital facial portrait of the person, the digital facial portrait embedded with at least one digital watermark identifying payload data linking the digital facial portrait to the person portrayed in the digital facial portrait; receiving results of comparison between the digital facial portrait of the person and the person presenting the digitally watermarked digital facial portrait; retrieving the at least one digital watermark in response to receiving comparison results that the person portrayed in the digital facial portrait is the person presenting the digitally watermarked digital facial portrait; and determining that the digital facial portrait is authentic based on the retrieved at least one digital watermark. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063657 | System and Method for Digitally Watermarking Digital Facial Portraits - Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063658 | System and Method for Digital Watermarking - Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063659 | System and Method for Digital Watermarking - Some implementations may provide a method that includes: receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a first digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a first portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; receiving, at a mobile device, data encoding a second digital watermark present on the identification document; extracting a second portion of personally identifiable information encoded by a spatial luminance pattern associated with the first digital watermark; and validating the identification document based on at least one of the first portion of personally identifiable information or the second portion of personally identifiable information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071504 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING FACES - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for matching faces. The method includes receiving an image of a face of a first person from a device of a second person, comparing the image of the face of the first person to a database of known faces in a contacts list of the second person, identifying a group of potential matching faces from the database of known faces, and displaying to the second person the group of potential matching faces. In one variation, the method receives input selecting one face from the group of potential matching faces and displays additional information about the selected one face. In a related variation, the method displays additional information about one or more face in the displayed group of potential matching faces without receiving input. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078631 | Method and System For Localizing Parts of an Object in an Image For Computer Vision Applications - A system is provided for localizing parts of an object in an image by training local detectors using labeled image exemplars with fiducial points corresponding to parts within the image. Each local detector generates a detector score corresponding to the likelihood that a desired part is located at a given location within the image exemplar. A non-parametric global model of the locations of the fiducial points is generated for each of at least a portion of the image exemplars. An input image is analyzed using the trained local detectors, and a Bayesian objective function is derived for the input image from the non-parametric model and detector scores. The Bayesian objective function is optimized using a consensus of global models, and an output is generated with locations of the fiducial points labeled within the object in the image. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078632 | FEELING MONITORING SYSTEM - A feeling monitoring system includes a facial image acquisition portion, a feeling information acquisition section, and a feeling display generation section. The facial image acquisition portion is capable of acquiring a facial image of an occupant individually sitting in each seating position of two or more seating positions in a vehicle. The feeling information acquisition section acquires feeling information representing the feeling of the occupant based on the facial image acquired from the facial image acquisition portion. The feeling display generation section generates a feeling display corresponding to the feeling information acquired by the feeling information acquisition section. | 03-19-2015 |
20150086086 | Image Classification And Information Retrieval Over Wireless Digital Networks And The Internet - A method and system for matching an unknown facial image of an individual with an image of a celebrity using facial recognition techniques and human perception is disclosed herein. The invention provides a internet hosted system to find, compare, contrast and identify similar characteristics among two or more individuals using a digital camera, cellular telephone camera, wireless device for the purpose of returning information regarding similar faces to the user The system features classification of unknown facial images from a variety of internet accessible sources, including mobile phones, wireless camera-enabled devices, images obtained from digital cameras or scanners that are uploaded from PCs, third-party applications and databases. Once classified, the matching person's name, image and associated meta-data is sent back to the user. The method and system uses human perception techniques to weight the feature vectors. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086087 | Demographic Analysis of Facial Landmarks - A set of training vectors may be identified. Each training vector may be mapped to either a male gender or a female gender, and each training vector may represent facial landmarks derived from a respective facial image. An input vector of facial landmarks may also be identified. The facial landmarks of the input vector may be derived from a particular facial image. A feature vector may containing a subset of the facial landmarks may be selected from the input vector. A weighted comparison may be performed between the feature vector and each of the training vectors. Based on a result of the weighted comparison, the particular facial image may be classified as either the male gender or the female gender. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086088 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR VERIFYING A SIGNATORY OF A DOCUMENT - Systems and method for verifying a user signing a document are disclosed. In particular, certain disclosed embodiments relate to verifying that a user signing a document corresponds to a previously authenticated user, the user having been previously authenticated using a source of machine-readable identity data. The verifying may be made by receiving, from the source of machine-readable identity data, first digital image data indicative of a first image of the previously authenticated user and first identity data, and receiving from a camera, a captured second image comprising second digital image data that corresponds to the user. Responsive to the first image and the second image being determined to represent the same user, verification data is generated and associated with the document. | 03-26-2015 |
20150092996 | AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD - An authentication apparatus includes first and second storage units in which feature data of different authentication targets are stored, a feature extraction unit that extracts feature data of a subject from an image including the subject, a recognition unit that compares the extracted feature data of the subject and the feature data of the authentication targets stored in the first storage unit and the second storage unit to generate similarity results, and recognize one of the authentication targets as the subject based on the comparison results, and an update unit that updates the feature data stored in the second storage unit with the extracted feature data of the subject based on the comparison results. | 04-02-2015 |
20150092997 | PERSON RECOGNITION APPARATUS, PERSON RECOGNITION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - There are provided a person recognition apparatus, method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium which can perform accurate person recognition according to a time dependent face change. A sorting section sorts a plurality of images by shooting date and time. A group division section divides the plurality of images into a plurality of groups according to a predetermined shooting date and time range. A face recognition section extracts feature amounts by face recognition for each group. An in-group person determination section determines a person having a similarity of a predetermined reference threshold value or higher as the same person and integrates the feature amounts relevant to the person for each group. An inter-group person recognition section recognizes persons having a similarity of a predetermined recognition threshold value or higher as the same person between two groups based on the feature amounts integrated in adjacent groups. | 04-02-2015 |
20150098631 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING EVIDENCE OF A PERSON'S SITUATION - An apparatus and a method are provided for detecting and recording, in an electronic device, evidence of a person's situation. Situation data is detected using a situation data sensor in the electronic device. Situation data can be data representing evidence of a person's situation, wherein such evidence can show a person's place in relation to another person or thing, or the state of a person being able to interact with another person or thing. Next, biometric data of the user of the electronic device is detected. Biometric data can be data that represents one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits of a person. Thereafter, a report is created using the situation data and the biometric data, wherein the report includes evidence of the situation of the user of the electronic device. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098632 | MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD, MONITORING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH MONITORING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A monitoring system configured to monitor a monitoring target, the monitoring system includes:
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20150098633 | FACE DETECTION APPARATUS, FACE DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A face detection apparatus detecting a face from an image which is captured by an imaging unit and includes the face, includes: a position detection unit that detects a position of a face part of the face from the image; an initial state determination unit that determines a model initial state on the basis of the position of the face part; and a model fitting unit that generates a model of the face on the basis of the image by using the model initial state. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098634 | FACE DETECTION APPARATUS, FACE DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A face detection apparatus detecting a face from an image including the face of a target person in a region imaged by an imaging unit, includes: a model fitting unit generating a first model of the face based on a first image from the imaging unit; a tracking unit fitting the first model to a second image from the imaging unit; a position detection unit detecting positions of face parts based on the second image; and a comparison unit determining whether or not a deviation occurs between the positions of the face parts in the first model fitted by the tracking unit and the positions of the face parts detected by the position detection unit. When the comparison unit determines that the deviation occurs, the model fitting unit generates a second model of the face based on the second image. | 04-09-2015 |
20150104082 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to process an image photographed by the camera and determine a user face within the image; and a controller configured to control the processor to determine whether same user faces appear in a plurality of video frames by tracing one or more user faces within the respective video frames included in the image. | 04-16-2015 |
20150110365 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING BIOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS IN AN IMAGE - A method for detecting biometric characteristics in a captured biometric data image is provided that includes determining, by a processor, an approximate location for a biometric characteristic in a frame included in captured biometric data, and determining region of interest positions over the frame. Moreover, the method includes calculating a set of feature values for each position, generating a displacement for each set of feature values and generating a median displacement, and adjusting the biometric characteristic location by the median displacement. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110366 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING USER LIVENESS - A method for determining user liveness is provided that includes extracting, by a processor, overlapping differential signals from a first differential signal. Moreover, the method includes calculating principal component analysis coefficients for each extracted differential signal, selecting a subset of the principal component analysis coefficients for each extracted differential signal, and generating an activity result for each extracted differential signal based on the principal component analysis coefficient subset. | 04-23-2015 |
20150117725 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT FOR IDENTIFYING FACIAL FEATURES - A method for identifying facial features comprises following steps: An image tracing step is performed to receive video data of a plurality of face images and to obtain a real-time background image from the video data by a video tracing technique. A data calculating step is performed to calculate a video data difference between a current face image and the real-time background image. A process setting step is performed to set an iteration number according to the video data difference. A coordinate requesting step is performed to obtain facial feature coordinates of a previous face image, the previous one of the current face image, serving as initial facial feature coordinates. A localization step is performed to obtain current facial feature coordinates of the current image by conducting an iterative calculation according to the iteration number and based on the initial facial feature coordinates. | 04-30-2015 |
20150125047 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of a user, a registered user information holder that holds face identification data of a registered user, a face recognition section that detects a face image of a registered user existing in the shot image by using face identification data held in the registered user information holder, and an information processing section that executes information processing based on a detection result by the face recognition section. The face identification data includes information on a face image of a user shot in advance and an after-processing image obtained by performing predetermined processing on the face image. | 05-07-2015 |
20150125048 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of a user, a registered user information holder that holds face identification data of a registered user, and a first authentication section that detects a face image of a registered user existing in the shot image by using face identification data held in the registered user information holder. The information processing device further includes a second authentication section that detects an image of an object having a predetermined positional relationship with a region of the face image detected by the first authentication section, and an information processing section that executes information processing based on detection results by the first authentication section and the second authentication section. The second authentication section uses information obtained in detection processing by the first authentication section for detection processing of the image of the object. | 05-07-2015 |
20150125049 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACIAL REPRESENTATION - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can align face images, classify face images, and verify face images by employing a deep neural network (DNN). A 3D-aligned face image can be generated from a 2D face image. An identity of the 2D face image can be classified based on provision of the 3D-aligned face image to the DNN. The identity of the 2D face image can comprise a feature vector. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131872 | FACE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION - The present invention provides, in at least one aspect, methods and systems that detect at least one face in at least one digital image, determine and store area co-ordinates of a location of the at least one detected face in the at least one digital image, apply at least one transformation to the at least one detected face to create at least one portrait of the at least one detected face, rotate the at least one portrait at least until the at least one portrait is shown in a vertical orientation and a pair of eyes of the at least one face shown in the at least one portrait are positioned on a horizontal plane; and store the rotated at least one portrait. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131873 | EXEMPLAR-BASED FEATURE WEIGHTING - In an example embodiment, for each of the image exemplars, a first location offset between an actual landmark location for a first landmark in the image exemplar and a predicted landmark location for the first landmark in the image exemplar is determined. Then, a probability that the image recognition process applied using the first feature produces an accurate identification of the first landmark in the image exemplars is determined based on the first location offsets for each of the image exemplars. A weight may then be assigned to the first feature based on the derived probability. An image recognition process may then be performed on an image, the image recognition process utilizing a voting process, for each of one or more features, for one or more landmarks in the plurality of image exemplars, the voting process for the first feature weighted according to the weight assigned to the first feature. | 05-14-2015 |
20150146941 | BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION - In real biometric systems, false match rates and false non-match rates of 0% do not exist. There is always some probability that a purported match is false, and that a genuine match is not identified. The performance of biometric systems is often expressed in part in terms of their false match rate and false non-match rate, with the equal error rate being when the two are equal. There is a tradeoff between the FMR and FNMR in biometric systems which can be adjusted by changing a matching threshold. This matching threshold can be automatically, dynamically and/or user adjusted so that a biometric system of interest can achieve a desired FMR and FNMR. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294136 | FACIAL RECOGNITION WITH BIOMETRIC PRE-FILTERS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for facial recognition processing using biometric pre-filters. The computer determines a first eye-to-eye distance of a first detected face of a first image, and wherein the eye-to-eye distance is a biometric measurement. The computer receives a selection of a demographic characteristic. The computer determines a search range for the first eye-to-eye distance based, at least in part, on the selection of the demographic characteristic, and the first eye-to-eye distance. The computer identifies a second image from a plurality of images, wherein the second image includes a second eye-to-eye distance that is included in the determined search range for the first eye-to-eye distance. The computer applies a facial recognition algorithm to the second image to determine at least one potential identity that is associated with the first detected face. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294138 | TAG SUGGESTIONS FOR IMAGES ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an image portraying at least a first person, accessing a social graph, determining a social-graph affinity for a first set of users, determining a facial-recognition scores for the first set of users based on the social-graph affinity for each user and a facial-representation associated with each user, where the facial-representation for each user is compared with the image, and generating one or more tag suggestions for the first person portrayed in the image based on the facial-recognition scores. | 10-15-2015 |
20150310259 | USING FACIAL DATA FOR DEVICE AUTHENTICATION OR SUBJECT IDENTIFICATION - Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for authenticating a user to computing device. In one exemplary embodiment, an indication of a request by a user to unlock a mobile device in a locked state is received. One or more images of the face of the user are captured. Facial components of the user from the one or more captured images are extracted. A determination is made as to whether the user is an authorized user or a non-authorized user based at least in part on a comparison of the facial components of the user extracted from the one or more captured images to facial components of the authorized user from one or more authentication images of the authorized stored on the mobile device. If the user is determined to be the authorized user, the mobile device unlocked; otherwise, the mobile device is maintained in its locked state. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310289 | Liveness Detection - The present disclosure concerns a method of verifying the presence of a living face in front of a camera ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150317510 | RATING PHOTOS FOR TASKS BASED ON CONTENT AND ADJACENT SIGNALS - Technologies for selecting a representative subset of images from a set of images, the selecting based at least in part on rating the images in the set based on task, Image, and/or adjacent information. An Indication of the task may be embodied in a query provided by a user. The task may indicate the user's intended use of the subset of images. The set of images may be grouped into one or more clusters that are based on technical attributes of the images in the set, and/or technical attributes indicated by the task. Adjacent information may be obtained from sources that are generally unrelated or indirectly related to the images in the set. Technical attributes such as face quality, face frequency, and relationship are based on facial recognition functionality that detects faces and their features in an image, and that calculates information such as a face signature that, across the images in the set, uniquely identifies an entity that the face represents, and that determines facial expressions such as smiling, sad, and neutral. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317511 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING FACIAL RECOGNITION - A method for recognizing a face in an image is performed by a facial recognition system. The system retrieves an image and detects a face within the image. The system then determines a set of facial feature positions for a set of facial features. The set of facial feature positions are used to separate the face into a set of facial feature parts. For each part, the system extracts a set of image features. The extracted features are concatenated into a full feature. The system performs dimension reduction on the full feature to derive a final feature. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317512 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING FACE AGING ERRORS WHEN PERFORMING FACIAL RECOGNITION - A computer implemented method and apparatus for mitigating face aging errors when performing facial recognition. The method comprises receiving an indication of a face that needs to be searched in an image set, where each image in the image set comprises a timestamp that identifies a creation date of the image, the creation date being in a continuum of successive time intervals; and identifying the indicated face in images taken in each time interval of a plurality of successive time intervals for the indicated face, wherein each face found in images taken in a previous successive time interval is used as a reference set for identifying the face in images taken in a next successive time interval. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317513 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL DETECTION USING REGIONAL SIMILARITY DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS - A method and apparatus for facial recognition by a computing device using an adaptive search window and regional similarity distribution analysis are disclosed herein. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324630 | GROUPING FACE IMAGES USING STATISTIC DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATE - A computer-implemented method for sorting face images of different individuals into different groups includes obtaining face images comprising faces of unknown individuals by a computer processor; calculating similarity functions between pairs of face images by the computer processor; joining face images that have values of the similarity functions above a predetermined threshold into a hypothetical face group, wherein the face images in the hypothetical face group hypothetically belong to a same person; conducting non-negative matrix factorization on values of the similarity functions in the hypothetical face group to test truthfulness of the hypothetical face group; and identifying the hypothetical face group as a true face group if a percentage of the associated similarity functions being true is above a threshold based on the non-negative matrix factorization. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324631 | IMAGE PRODUCT CREATION BASED ON FACE IMAGES GROUPED USING IMAGE PRODUCT STATISTICS - A computer-implemented method for creating an image product by accurately grouping faces includes receiving an initial set of face groups for a plurality of face images, training classifiers between pairs of face groups in the initial set of face groups using image-product statistics by a computer processor, classifying the plurality of face images by classifiers to output binary vectors for the plurality of face images by the computer processor, calculating a value for an improved similarity function using the binary vectors for each pair of the plurality of face images, grouping the plurality of face images into modified face groups based on values of the binary similarity functions by the computer processor, and creating an image product based at least in part on the modified face groups | 11-12-2015 |
20150332086 | Tagging Visual Media on a Mobile Device - This document describes techniques enabling tagging of visual media on a mobile device. In some cases the techniques determine, based on meeting a threshold of manual tagging of a person or object, to “bulk” tag visual media stored on the mobile device. Thus, the techniques can present, in rapid succession, photos and videos with the recognized person or object to enable the user to quickly and easily confirm or reject the recognition. Also, the techniques can present numerous faces for recognized persons or sub-images for recognized objects on a display at one time, thereby enabling quick and easy confirmation or rejection of the recognitions. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339515 | FACIAL RECOGNITION APPARATUS, RECOGNITION METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND INFORMATION DEVICE - A facial recognition apparatus comprises a photographing parameter input unit that receives a photographing parameter(s); a lighting information estimation unit that estimates lighting information based on the photographing parameter(s); and a recognition accuracy control unit that controls a recognition accuracy parameter(s) based on the lighting information. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339516 | COLLATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND IMAGE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - A collation apparatus that collates an input image with registered images includes: a feature extracting unit extracting feature quantities from a region of an object in the input image; a calculating unit calculating, per each of the feature quantities, similarity degrees between the feature quantities extracted from the input image and corresponding feature quantities of the registered image, for each of the registered images; an integrating unit integrating, using a parameter, the similarity degrees for the feature quantities; an estimation unit estimating as to whether or not the object in the input image is identical with an object in each of the registered images; and a parameter learning unit learning the parameters to be used by the integrating unit, based on an estimation result of the estimation unit and the similarity degree integrated by the integrating unit. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347459 | METHOD AND DEVICE RELATING TO INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A method and an arrangement for use in a device, such as a communication device, may be configured to generate an assembly based on one or more images. The system may include an image retrieval portion for retrieving the one or more images from an image source, an arrangement for fetching data corresponding to the one or more images, and converting the data to presentable information, and an arrangement for generating the assembly including the one or more images and the presentable information provided with description. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347819 | Compact Face Representation - A deep learning framework jointly optimizes the compactness and discriminative ability of face representations. The compact representation can be as compact as 32 bits and still produce highly discriminative performance. In another aspect, based on the extreme compactness, traditional face analysis tasks (e.g. gender analysis) can be effectively solved by a Look-Up-Table approach given a large-scale face data set. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347820 | Learning Deep Face Representation - Face representation is a crucial step of face recognition systems. An optimal face representation should be discriminative, robust, compact, and very easy to implement. While numerous hand-crafted and learning-based representations have been proposed, considerable room for improvement is still present. A very easy-to-implement deep learning framework for face representation is presented. The framework bases on pyramid convolutional neural network (CNN). The pyramid CNN adopts a greedy-filter-and-down-sample operation, which enables the training procedure to be very fast and computation efficient. In addition, the structure of Pyramid CNN can naturally incorporate feature sharing across multi-scale face representations, increasing the discriminative ability of resulting representation. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347822 | Facial Landmark Localization Using Coarse-to-Fine Cascaded Neural Networks - The present invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by performing facial landmark localization in a coarse-to-fine manner with a cascade of neural network levels, and enforcing geometric constraints for each of the neural network levels. In one approach, the neural network levels may be implemented with deep convolutional neural network. One aspect concerns a system for localizing landmarks on face images. The system includes an input for receiving a face image, and an output for presenting landmarks identified by the system. Neural network levels are coupled in a cascade from the input to the output for the system. Each neural network level produces an estimate of landmarks. The estimate of landmarks is more refined than an estimate of landmark of a previous neural network level. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347823 | Real-Time Image and Audio Replacement for Visual Aquisition Devices - According to some aspects, disclosed systems and methods include obtaining an image displaying an object; and performing pattern recognition on the image to determine a characteristic of the object. The systems and methods also include searching a central repository based on the characteristic to determine a candidate match associated with the object, the candidate match being associated with a preference, the preference comprising display instructions for the image; and modifying the image based on the display instructions for the image. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347824 | NAME BUBBLE HANDLING - Apparatus has at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable code stored therein which when executed controls the at least one processor: to determine a name relating to a face in an image; to calculate a first maximum length attribute for a name bubble for the face at a first zoom level; to select a part of the name for inclusion in the name bubble having regard to the first maximum length attribute; to calculate a second maximum length attribute for the name bubble for the face at a second zoom level, the first and second zoom levels being different and the first and second maximum length attributes being different; and to select a part of the name for inclusion in the name bubble for the face at the second zoom level having regard to the second maximum length attribute. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347825 | COGNITIVE IMAGE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION - Embodiments are directed to an image processing station for associating a non-trusted data set with a trusted data set. The station includes a memory and a user interface configured to receive the trusted data set and the non-trusted data set. The station further includes a processor system communicatively coupled to the memory and the user interface. The processor system is configured to generate, based at least in part on processing the trusted data set and the non-trusted data set, a confidence value that represents a probability that at least a portion of the non-trusted data set identifies at least a portion of the trusted data set. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347826 | COGNITIVE IMAGE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION - Embodiments are directed to an image processing station for associating a non-trusted data set with a trusted data set. The station includes a memory and a user interface configured to receive the trusted data set and the non-trusted data set. The station further includes a processor system communicatively coupled to the memory and the user interface. The processor system is configured to generate, based at least in part on processing the trusted data set and the non-trusted data set, a confidence value that represents a probability that at least a portion of the non-trusted data set identifies at least a portion of the trusted data set. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356348 | FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A facial expression recognition apparatus ( | 12-10-2015 |
20150362986 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION BASED ON FACE RECOGNITION - A method for biometric authentication based on face recognition, the method includes changing a first processor to an active state to try a detection of face area of a subject for a preset time period with respect to image information of the subject that is successively acquired; changing the second processor to an idle state when the face area is not detected for the preset time period and allowing a second processor in an active state to try a detection of face area; and returning the first processor to the active state and resuming biometric authentication using the detected face area when if the face area is detected by the second processor. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363634 | Face Hallucination Using Convolutional Neural Networks - Face hallucination using a bi-channel deep convolutional neural network (BCNN), which can adaptively fuse two channels of information. In one example, the BCNN is implemented to extract high level features from an input image. The extracted high level features are combined with low level details in the input image to produce the higher resolution image. Preferably, a proper coefficient is obtained to adaptively combine the high level features and the low level details. | 12-17-2015 |
20150371081 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH FACIAL RECOGNITION FUNCTION - The present invention discloses an information processing method for an electronic device with a facial recognition function, an information processing device for an electronic device with a facial recognition function, and an information processing method for an electronic device with an iris recognition function. The present invention detects a face or iris of an operating user, and determines whether it matches the facial image or iris image which is stored in the electronic device in advance. If it is determined that the face of the user who is operating the electronic device does not match the facial image stored in the electronic device, the user interface of the electronic device is switched to a user preset state. The present invention can effectively protect user's privacy. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379330 | Entropy-Reducing Low Pass Filter for Face-Detection - In one embodiment, a method for detecting faces in video image frames includes comparing a current image frame to a previously processed image frame to determine similarity, discarding the current image frame if the current image frame and the previously processed image frame are, detecting at least one detected facial image in the current image frame, comparing the at least one detected facial image to at least one most recently stored facial image stored in a most recently used (MRU) cache to determine similarity, discarding the at least one detected facial image if the at least one detected facial image and the at least one most recently stored facial image are similar; and storing the at least one detected facial image in the MRU cache if the at least one detected facial image and the at least one most recently stored facial image are not similar. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379331 | PASSIVE DRIVER IDENTIFICATION - A system for passive driver identification comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive a collection of face data from a vehicle event recorder. The processor is configured to 1) determine a set of face data of the collection of face data that is associated with a trip; 2) determine a first album associated with the trip, wherein the set of face data associated with the trip is similar to face data of other trips in the first album, and wherein the set of face data associated with the trip is dissimilar to face data of a set of trips in a second album; and 3) assign an identifier that associates the trip to the first album. | 12-31-2015 |
20160004903 | GRAPHIC DATA ALTERATION TO ENHANCE ONLINE PRIVACY - A computer alters at least one recognizable metric or text in a digitally encoded photographic image by operating an alteration algorithm in response to user input data while preserving an overall aesthetic quality of the image and obscuring an identity of at least one individual or geographic location appearing in the image. An altered digitally-encoded photographic image prepared by the altering of the at least one recognizable metric or text in the image is stored in a computer memory. User feedback and/or automatic analysis may be performed to define parameter values of the alteration algorithm such that the alteration process achieves preservation of aesthetic qualities while obscuring an identity of interest. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004904 | FACIAL TRACKING WITH CLASSIFIERS - Concepts for facial tracking with classifiers is disclosed. One or more faces are detected and tracked in a series of video frames that include at least one face. Video is captured and partitioned into the series of frames. A first video frame is analyzed using classifiers trained to detect the presence of at least one face in the frame. The classifiers are used to initialize locations for a first set of facial landmarks for the first face. The locations of the facial landmarks are refined using localized information around the landmarks, and a rough bounding box that contains the facial landmarks is estimated. The future locations for the facial landmarks detected in the first video frame are estimated for a future video frame. The detection of the facial landmarks and estimation of future locations of the landmarks are insensitive to rotation, orientation, scaling, or mirroring of the face. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005171 | Image Analysis Device, Image Analysis System, and Image Analysis Method - An image analysis device according to the present invention includes a storage unit storing an image and information of a detected object included in the image, an input unit receiving a target image serving as a target in which an object is detected, a similar image search unit searching for a similar image having a feature quantity similar to a feature quantity extracted from the target image and the information of the object included in the similar image from the storage unit, a parameter deciding unit deciding a parameter used in a detection process performed on the target image based on the information of the object included in the similar image, a detecting unit detecting an object from the target image according to the decided parameter, a registering unit accumulating the target image in the storage unit, and a data output unit outputting the information of the detected object. | 01-07-2016 |
20160019411 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Personality Analysis Based On Social Network Images - A computer-implemented system and method for personality analysis based on social network images are provided. A plurality of images posted to one or more social networking sites by a member of these sites are accessed. An analysis of the images is performed. Personality of the member is evaluated based on the analysis of the images. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019413 | Display Device Content Selection Through Viewer Identification And Affinity Prediction - Method and device are described for customizing the content selection to present on a display device based on identifying the viewer of the device. In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to selecting from among a group of digital images, those images that are most likely to be of interest to the viewer. In general, many of the images available to the display device will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Using the relationship information to predict subject affinity, the display device computes an image affinity for each image by accumulating the individual subject affinity predictions between the viewer and each subject identified in each image. The image affinities are used to select images for presentation on the display device. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019414 | Display Device Content Selection Through Viewer Identification And Affinity Prediction - Method and device are described for customizing the content selection to present on a display device based on identifying the viewer of the device. In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to selecting from among a group of digital images, those images that are most likely to be of interest to the viewer. In general, many of the images available to the display device will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Using the relationship information to predict subject affinity, the display device computes an image affinity for each image by accumulating the individual subject affinity predictions between the viewer and each subject identified in each image. The image affinities are used to select images for presentation on the display device. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019417 | FACE IMAGE TRACKING SYSTEM - A face image tracking system for a site includes a storage unit storing face images of persons that were acquired when the persons visited the site, an imaging unit configured to capture a face image of a person when the person requests deletion of a face image of the person stored in the storage unit, and a processing unit configured to extract one or more stored face images that have at least a threshold similarity to the face image of the person captured by the imaging unit, and delete one of the extracted face images from the storage unit. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019418 | SAVING DEVICE FOR IMAGE SHARING, IMAGE SHARING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE SHARING METHOD - The saving device for image sharing includes an image acquiring unit configured to acquire the images offered by a sharer of the images, a sharee information storing unit configured to store sharee information with respect to at least one sharee, a subject assessing unit configured to assess whether or not a person subject is included in the acquired images, an image associating unit configured to associate the images assessed as not including a person subject with the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information, and a shared image determining unit configured to determine the images to be shared with the sharee or sharees from among the associated images and the images assessed as including a person subject, based on the sharee information. The image sharing system and an image sharing method use such a device. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026854 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF IDENTIFYING USER USING FACE RECOGNITION - At least one example embodiment discloses a user authentication method including acquiring representative reference images classified from a pre-stored first reference image of a user based on desired criteria, acquiring representative input images classified from a first input image based on the desired criteria, calculating a similarity between the first input image and the first reference image based on the representative input images and the representative reference images, and authenticating a user based on the calculated similarity. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026884 | CONTROLLED ACCESS TO FUNCTIONALITY OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - Various embodiments of the invention may be used to verify that a person being authorized by biometric techniques to use a device is a living person and not some form of recording intended to spoof the system. Some embodiments may try to cause a change in a measured biometric feature, and compare images taken before and after the change to verify the change occurred. In some embodiments, multiple stages of verification may be used, either to increase the difficulty of spoofing the security system, or to provide different levels of security for different levels of access to the device's functionality. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034747 | RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION TERMINAL - An information terminal includes acquiring an image of a first subject that is captured by a first sensor provided on a back surface of a surface on which a screen of the information terminal is disposed, and when displaying the image on the screen, changing a degree of scaling up/down of the image and a position at which the image is displayed in accordance with a position of a second subject that is imaged by a second sensor provided to the information terminal. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034749 | Facial Image Bucketing with Expectation Maximization and Facial Coordinates - Facial image bucketing is disclosed, whereby a query for facial image recognition compares the facial image against existing candidate images. Rather than comparing the facial image to each candidate image, the candidate images are organized or clustered into buckets according to their facial similarities, and the facial image is then compared to the image(s) in most-likely one(s) of the buckets. The organizing uses particular selected facial features, computes distance between the facial features, and selects ones of the computed distances to determine which facial images should be organized into the same bucket. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034750 | ASSET SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for monitoring assets at a premises on a utility grid. Face print information is extracted from image data received . The face print information comprises an amount of data less than the amount of data comprising the image data of the face. Asset management information from an asset management system is also received. Multiple image data may be received and vector information is determined that corresponds to the trajectory of movement of a face. A security alert is generated by correlating the asset management information with the face print information and/or the vector information and transmitting in real time the security alert to a monitoring center. A security alert may also be generated from image data reflecting abnormal running conditions of a device. Security alerts would be of a size and format necessary for transmission on any existing network, including a narrow band network. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034782 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF COLLATING CATEGORIES OF IMAGES - An image processing apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds a plurality of images; a condition checking unit that checks imaging conditions of the plurality of images; a collation determining unit that determines whether to collate images among the plurality of images based on the imaging conditions of the images; a collation unit that collates the images determined to be collated by the collation determining unit to obtain a degree of similarity; and a classifying unit that classifies the collated images into a same category when the degree of similarity is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold. | 02-04-2016 |
20160034789 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID FACE RECOGNITION - A face recognition method is provided to use sparse representation and regularized least squares-based classification on a computing device. The method includes obtaining an image to be recognized as a test sample y and a set of training images of certain subjects as training sample matrix T, obtaining a sparse representation of the test sample and the training samples including an initial estimation of a sparse vector a, and constructing a new face dictionary comprising training samples with non-zero corresponding coefficients in the sparse vector a for the initial estimation. The method also includes obtaining new coefficients by solving a regularized least squares problem based on the constructed new face dictionary, and determining a face identity of the test sample based on minimum class residual calculated by using the new coefficients. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042225 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACE ALERT - Various embodiments described herein notifying users regarding photos in which they may appear and suggest photo tags accordingly. Subject to user preferences and privacy settings, facial recognition with respect to a specific user of a social networking system may be performed on one or more photos added by, or otherwise associated with, other entities of the social networking system. For those photos in which the specific user is facially recognized, a suggested photo tag for the specific user may be associated with the recognized photos and the specific user may be alerted accordingly. Depending on the embodiment, the specific user may be provided with an option to confirm the suggested photo tag, decline the suggested photo tag, or do nothing. In the event the specific user declines the suggested photo tag with respect to a particular photo, other users may be prevented from tagging the specific user with respect to the particular photo. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048722 | Embedding Biometric Data From a Wearable Computing Device in Metadata of a Recorded Image - According to an example method implemented by an imaging device, an image is recorded of a subject to which a wearable computing device is secured. Responsive to the recording, the imaging device wirelessly receives data from the wearable computing device. The data includes an identifier of the wearable computing device and biometric data of the subject. The identifier and biometric data are embedded as metadata in the recorded image. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048736 | FALSE FACE REPRESENTATION IDENTIFICATION - Systems and methods for identifying a false representation of a human face are provided. In one example, a method for identifying a false representation of a human face includes receiving a plurality of different data streams captured by a respective plurality of sensors of differing sensor types sensing a candidate face. In a cascading plurality of stages, one or more of the different data streams are analyzed, wherein each of the stages comprises a different analysis. In one of the cascading plurality of stages, the method determines that one or more of the different data streams corresponds to a false representation of the human face. Based on determining that one or more of the different data streams corresponds to a false representation of a human face, an indication of the false representation is outputted. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055369 | AUTOMATIC IMAGE PRODUCT CREATION FOR USER ACCOUNTS COMPRISING LARGE NUMBER OF IMAGES - A computer-implemented method of grouping faces in large user account for creating an image product includes adding the face images obtained from an image album in a user's account into a first chunk; if the chunk size of the first chuck is smaller than a maximum chuck value, keeping the face images from the image album into the first chunk; otherwise, automatically separating the face images from the image album into a first portion and one or more second portions; keeping the first portion in the first chunk; automatically moving the second portions to subsequent chunks; automatically grouping face images in the first chunk to form face groups; assigning the face groups to known face models associated with the user account; and creating a design for an image-based product based on the face images in the first chunk associated with the face models. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055370 | System and Methods of Generating User Facial Expression Library for Messaging and Social Networking Applications - Embodiments are provided that utilize images of users to represent true or personalized emotions for the users in messaging or social networking applications. A library of user facial expression images is generated for this purpose, and made accessible to messaging or social networking applications, such as on a smartphone or other user devices. The images of facial expressions include face photographs of the user that convey emotions or expressions of the user, such as a happy face or a sad face. An embodiment method includes detecting an image accessible by an electronic device, determining whether the image shows a face of the user and whether the image shows a facial expression expressed by the face of the user, adding the image to a library of facial expressions of the user in accordance with the determining step, and sending a message including the image as an emoticon. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055371 | SMART GLASSES AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING AND PROMPTING FACE USING SMART GLASSES - Smart glasses and a method for recognizing and prompting a face are provided. The smart glasses store a database recording a plurality of profile information and business card information thereof. In the method, an image located in the field of view of the smart glasses is captured by an image capturing unit and at least one face appearing in the image is recognized. Facial features of each of the recognized faces are compared with those of the profile information in the database to find the profile information matching the facial features. In particular, if profile information matching the facial features is found, business card information corresponding to the profile information is displayed on a display unit; if profile information matching the facial features is not found, the business card information of a business card appearing in the image is recognized to associate the business card information with the recognized face. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063033 | METHOD, APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A NOTIFICATION ON A FACE RECOGNITION ENVIRONMENT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - According to a method for providing a notification on a face recognition environment of the present disclosure, the method includes obtaining an input image that is input in a preview state, comparing feature information for a face included in the input image with feature information for a plurality of reference images of people stored in a predetermined database to determine, in real-time, whether the input image satisfies a predetermined effective condition for photographing. The predetermined effective condition for photographing is information regarding a condition necessary for recognizing the face included in the input image at a higher accuracy level than a predetermined accuracy level. The method further includes providing a user with a predetermined feedback for photographing guidance that corresponds to whether the predetermined effective condition for photographing is satisfied. According to the method, a condition of a face image detected for face recognition is checked, and if there is an unsuitable element in recognizing the face, it is notified to a user such that an obstruction environment hindering the face recognition by the user is removed, for enhancing a success rate of the face recognition. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063311 | FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND FACIAL IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM - The present invention provides a facial image display apparatus that can display moving images concentrated on the face when images of people's faces are displayed. A facial image display apparatus is provided wherein a facial area detecting unit ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160063313 | AD-HOC, FACE-RECOGNITION-DRIVEN CONTENT SHARING - Example embodiments relate to ad-hoc, face-recognition-driven content sharing. In example embodiments, a system matches a face in a face image extracted from a video stream from a sharing device to a face profile of a receiving user, where the face profile of the receiving user is generated based on a training face image that is extracted from a training video stream of a training device of the receiving user. In response to generating a temporary token that is associated with the face profile, the system sends the temporary token and an arbitrary handle from the face profile to the sharing device. At this stage, the system receives a context identifier from the sharing device and provides the context identifier to the receiving device of the receiving user. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063316 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INCREASING FACIAL RECOGNITION WORKING RANG THROUGH ADAPTIVE SUPER-RESOLUTION - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for increasing facial-recognition working range through adaptive super-resolution. One embodiment takes the form of a process that includes calculating one or more video metrics with respect to an input set of video frames. The process also includes obtaining a metric-specific weighting factor for each of the calculated video metrics. The process also includes calculating a weighted sum based on the obtained metric-specific weighting factors and the corresponding calculated video metrics. The process also includes selecting, based at least in part on the calculated weighted sum, a super-resolution technique from among a plurality of super-resolution techniques. The process also includes outputting an indication of the selected super-resolution technique. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063336 | Generating Weights for Biometric Tokens in Probabilistic Matching Systems - Generating weights for biometric tokens in probabilistic matching systems is disclosed, where these weights are generated from computations performed on matched sets and unmatched sets of a reference data set. In an embodiment, scores from a similarity scoring function are distributed among bins, and a weight is computed for each bin as the log of (the matched set ratio/the unmatched set ratio), where the ratios are computed as the number of scores in a particular bin as compared to the total size of the set. The weights may then be used subsequently with scores computed by the scoring function to assess confidence of a computed similarity score, and are directed toward making the output of the probabilistic matching system more data-driven and more accurate. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION - At least one example embodiment discloses a facial recognition apparatus configured to obtain a two-dimensional (2D) input image including a face region of a user, detect a facial feature point from the 2D input image, adjust a pose of a stored three-dimensional (3D) facial model based on the detected facial feature point, generate a 2D projection image from the adjusted 3D facial model, perform facial recognition based on the face region in the 2D input image and a face region in the 2D projection image, and output a result of the facial recognition. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070953 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus, a degree-of-relevance calculation unit calculates a degree of relevance between each of a plurality of images on the basis of a person's face, determination results of scenes and objects, GPS information, and a degree of similarity. An important image extraction unit extracts images captured over a certain period of time including a reference date for determining a degree of importance of the image, and images captured over a certain period of time including a relevant date relevant to the reference date, as important image, from the plurality of images. A relevant image extraction unit extracts a certain number of images as relevant images from important images in which the degree of relevance for a selected image selected from the plurality of images by an instruction which is input through an instruction input unit is equal to or greater than a threshold. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070954 | TAG SUGGESTIONS FOR IMAGES ON ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an image portraying at least a first person, accessing a social graph, determining a social-graph affinity for a first set of users, determining a facial-recognition scores for the first set of users based on the social-graph affinity for each user and a facial-representation associated with each user, where the facial-representation for each user is compared with the image, and generating one or more tag suggestions for the first person portrayed in the image based on the facial-recognition scores. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070956 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Facial Feature Verification Model - A method and an apparatus for generating a facial feature verification model. The method includes acquiring N input facial images, performing feature extraction on the N input facial images, to obtain an original feature representation of each facial image, and forming a face sample library, for samples of each person with an independent identity, obtaining an intrinsic representation of each group of face samples in at least two groups of face samples, training a training sample set of the intrinsic representation, to obtain a Bayesian model of the intrinsic representation, and obtaining a facial feature verification model according to a preset model mapping relationship and the Bayesian model of the intrinsic representation. In the method and apparatus for generating a facial feature verification model in the embodiments of the present disclosure, complexity is low and a calculation amount is small. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070957 | FACIAL RECOGNITION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing facial recognition. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a first digital photograph. A first face template is generated for each face detected in the first digital photograph. Second user identifiers that are associated with a first user identifier are determined. A digital photograph index of photographs, user identifiers, and areas in the digital photographs in which a face of a user identified by user identifier is located is accessed. Second user identifiers are selected, and second face templates are generated from the faces of the user the digital photographs. First face templates that match second face templates are identified, and for each first face template that matches a second face template, data is generated specifying the area in the first digital photograph in which the face of the second user is located. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078279 | IMAGE ANALYSIS USING A SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSOR FOR FACIAL EVALUATION - Image analysis for facial evaluation is performed using logic encoded in a semiconductor processor. The semiconductor chip analyzes video images that are captured using one or more cameras and evaluates the videos to identify one or more persons in the videos. When a person is identified, the semiconductor chip locates the face of the evaluated person in the video. Facial regions of interest are extracted and differences in the regions of interest in the face are identified. The semiconductor chip uses classifiers to map facial regions for emotional response content and evaluate the emotional response content to produce an emotion score. The classifiers provide gender, age, or ethnicity with an associated probability. Localization logic within the chip is used to localize a second face when one is evaluated in the video. The one or more faces are tracked, and identifiers for the faces are provided. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078280 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An image processing method includes steps of: providing a source face image and a target face image; extracting facial features from the source face image and the target face image respectively; detecting feature dimensions of the facial features from the source face image and the target face image respectively; pairing the facial features from the source face image with the facial features from the target face image; and, forming an output face image by adjusting the facial features from the source face image in at least one of the feature dimensions according to the paired features from the target face image in the corresponding feature dimensions. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078281 | SECURE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for determining whether a communication session is authorized are provided. In some aspects, a method includes initiating a communication session between a first user and a second user, and obtaining an identity attribute associated with a third user engaged in the communication session. The method also includes determining whether the third user is the first user, the second user, or an unauthorized user based on the obtained identity attribute. The method also includes determining whether the communication session is authorized based on whether the third user is determined to be the first user, the second user, or the unauthorized user. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078282 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING IMAGE FEATURE - At least one example embodiment discloses an image feature extracting method. The method includes determining a probabilistic model based on pixel values of pixels in a kernel, determining image feature information of a current pixel of the pixels in the kernel and determining whether to change the image feature information of the current pixel based on a random value and a probability value of the current pixel, the probability value being based on the probabilistic model. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078283 | METHOD OF EXTRACTING FEATURE OF INPUT IMAGE BASED ON EXAMPLE PYRAMID, AND FACIAL RECOGNITION APPARATUS - At least one example embodiment discloses a method of extracting a feature of an input image. The method includes constructing an example pyramid including at least one hierarchical level based on stored example images, generating a codebook in each of the at least one hierarchical level, calculating a similarity between the codebook and the input image, and extracting a feature of the input image based on the similarity. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078284 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND OBJECT IDENTIFICATION METHOD - An object identification apparatus selects, for each partial area of an object in a registered image, a corresponding sample image from sample images based on feature quantities of the partial area, for objects in the registered image, sets a similarity of feature quantities for each partial area between objects of an identical individual and between objects of different individuals based on a similarity related to the selected sample images for each partial area, makes a discriminator learn based on the set similarity, acquires a similarity for each partial area between objects in an input image and the registered image, and determines whether the object in the input image is identical to the object in the registered image based on the acquired similarity and a result of discrimination by the discriminator. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078302 | IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention relates to systems and processes for the management of image data captured by a network covering a plurality of imaging nodes. The systems and processes may include a surveillance network arranged to receive surveillance streams from a plurality of checkpoints that are spatially separated along a route, extracting image data containing facial image content from the surveillance streams, and identifying individual people and determining an elapsed time between distinct checkpoints along the route, to track progress of people along the route. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078319 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Readable Recording Medium for Detecting a Location of a Face Feature Point Using an Adaboost Learning Algorithm - The present disclosure relates to detecting the location of a face feature point using an Adaboost learning algorithm. According to some embodiments, a method for detecting a location of a face feature point comprises: (a) a step of classifying a sub-window image into a first recommended feature point candidate image and a first non-recommended feature point candidate image using first feature patterns selected by an Adaboost learning algorithm, and generating first feature point candidate location information on the first recommended feature point candidate image; and (b) a step of re-classifying said sub-window image classified into said first non-recommended feature point candidate image, into a second recommended feature point candidate image and a second non-recommended feature point candidate image using second feature patterns selected by the Adaboost learning algorithm, and generating second feature point candidate location information on the second recommended feature point recommended candidate image. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC FACIAL FEATURES FOR SPEAKER RECOGNITION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing speaker verification. A system configured to practice the method receives a request to verify a speaker, generates a text challenge that is unique to the request, and, in response to the request, prompts the speaker to utter the text challenge. Then the system records a dynamic image feature of the speaker as the speaker utters the text challenge, and performs speaker verification based on the dynamic image feature and the text challenge. Recording the dynamic image feature of the speaker can include recording video of the speaker while speaking the text challenge. The dynamic feature can include a movement pattern of head, lips, mouth, eyes, and/or eyebrows of the speaker. The dynamic image feature can relate to phonetic content of the speaker speaking the challenge, speech prosody, and the speaker's facial expression responding to content of the challenge. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086016 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING FEATURE FROM INPUT IMAGE - At least one example embodiment discloses a method of extracting a feature from an input image. The method may include detecting landmarks from the input image, detecting physical characteristics between the landmarks based on the landmarks, determining a target area of the input image from which at least one feature is to be extracted and an order of extracting the feature from the target area based on the physical characteristics and extracting the feature based on the determining. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086017 | FACE POSE RECTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A pose rectification method for rectifying a pose in data representing face images, comprising the steps of:
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20160086018 | FACIAL RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - An active-imaging system useful for biometric facial recognition has an optical head with a short-wave infrared (SWIR) imager, an illuminator, and a processor. The imager and illuminator are aligned and mounted on a single pan-tilt stage. The illuminator produces a wavelength of light greater than 1400 nm and less than 1700 nm, which is centered on the imager field of view. An electronics box having power supplies, communications electronics, and a light source for the illuminator can be included. The electronics box is connected to the optical head by an umbilical having cables to deliver light and power to support data communication to and from the optical head. The processor is connected to the electronics box for comparing SWIR-illuminated facial images captured by the imager to a database of visible-spectrum face images. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086019 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFICATION AND SHARING OF DIGITAL IMAGES WITH FACE SIGNATURES - Methods and systems are provided for sharing a digital image depicting one or more faces. The method may include linking a plurality of computer terminals to a computer network, each computer terminal associated with an individual; receiving a digital image at at least one of the computer terminals; executing a face recognition routine on the digital image, the face recognition routine detecting at least one face in the digital image, each detected face corresponding to a person, the face recognition routine recognizing at least one of the persons as being one of the individuals; and for each individual recognized in the digital image by the face recognition routine, initiating dissemination of the digital image to the computer terminal associated with respective individual whose face is recognized in the digital image. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086022 | Image sharing with facial recognition models - An image sharing server provides several ways of sharing images between users. After a user contributes images to the image sharing server, the user can interact with the image sharing server to identify and tag people in the images, share the images with other users, and organize the images into memory boxes. Memory boxes can also be shared between users, and multiple users can be granted the ability to add images to a shared memory box. In addition, the image sharing server can prompt a user to share his or her images with other users who contributed related images. The image sharing server also performs facial recognition to automatically identify people in images, and facial recognition models can be shared between users. | 03-24-2016 |
20160103485 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRACKING GAZE OF GLASSES WEARER - An apparatus for tracking a gaze of a glasses wearer simultaneously captures at least two face images by a camera, extracts glasses feature points when glasses are present within the face images by confirming whether the glasses are present within the captured face images, and calculates a gaze vector based on the extracted glasses feature points. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103852 | Auto Tagging in Geo-Social Networking System - In one embodiment, a social networking system automatically tags one or more users to an image file by creating a list of potential matches, and selecting a subset of potential matches based on location, asking a first user to confirm the subset of potential matches, and tagging one or more matched users to the image file. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104034 | CONTINUOUS ENROLLMENT FOR FACE VERIFICATION - Techniques for performing continuous enrollment for face verification are provided. In one embodiment, a computing device can receive, from a user, an indication that the user wishes to authenticate himself/herself with the computing device via face verification. In response to the indication, the computing device can capture, using a camera, a series of images of the user's face and can authenticate the user by evaluating each of the series of images against a face template for the user, where the user is authenticated based on an N-th image in the series. Once the user has been authenticated, the computing device can select one or more images from the series prior to the N-th image and can add the selected images to the user's face template. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104035 | PRIVACY FOR CAMERA WITH PEOPLE RECOGNITION - A method to provide privacy protection on a video includes performing people recognition on the video, when a registered person is recognized, determining if a privacy setting is turned on, and, when the privacy setting is turned on, performing privacy protection on the video. Performing privacy protection on the video includes pausing a recording of a live video, obscuring the registered person in the live video or a recorded video, or skipping ahead or deleting part of the recorded video. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104309 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING FACIAL COMPOSITE IMAGE, RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - Disclosed is an apparatus for generating a facial composite image, which includes: a database in which face image and partial feature image information is stored; a wireframe unit configured to apply a face wireframe to a basic face sketch image, the face wireframe applying an active weight to each intersecting point; a face composing unit configured to form a two-dimensional face model to which the wireframe is applied, by composing images selected from the database; and a model transforming unit configured to transform the two-dimensional face model according to a user input on the basis of the two-dimensional face model to which the wireframe is applied. Accordingly, a facial composite image with improved accuracy may be generated efficiently. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110585 | DETECTING AN ATTENTIVE USER FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED CONTENT ON A DISPLAY - Provided is a method of detecting an attentive user to provide personalized content on a display. People proximate to a display are identified. Upon such identification, a user attentive to the display is detected amongst the people proximate to the display. Identity of the attentive user is determined and personalized content is displayed based on the identity of the attentive user. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110586 | IMAGE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image recognition apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. An image recognition apparatus may include a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to, determine an occlusion pattern of a face in a facial image representing the face by comparing the facial image with a standard facial image representing a standard face, and identify the facial image using a region determined by the occlusion pattern in the facial image. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110587 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION - A facial recognition method includes identifying a first makeup pattern in a region of interest (ROI) of a first image, applying one of the first makeup pattern and a candidate makeup pattern to a ROI of a second image corresponding to the ROI of the first image to generate a third image and recognizing a face based on the first image and the third image. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110588 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an image acquirer configured to acquire a shot image of a user from an imaging device; a registered user information holder configured to hold face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication section configured to execute authentication processing of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; a shooting condition controller configured to adjust a shooting condition to bring a characteristic of the face image close to a characteristic of a face image of an acquisition source of the face identification data and make the imaging device perform shooting in order to improve an authentication result in the face authentication section; and an information processing section configured to execute information processing on the basis of an authentication result of a face image obtained by adjustment. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110589 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: an image acquirer acquiring a shot image of a user; a registered user information holder holding face identification data of a registered user; a face authentication carrying out authentication of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder; an information processing section executing information processing on a basis of an authentication result by the face authentication section; a face identification data registration section updating the face identification data on a basis of a face image extracted from the shot image; and a provisionally-registered data holder temporarily holding data relating to the face image when the face image satisfies a predetermined condition. The face identification data registration section determines whether or not to update the face identification data on the basis of the face image by evaluating the data. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110590 | FACIAL IDENTIFICATION METHOD, FACIAL IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A facial identification method includes changing an image size for facial identification, converting the image of changed size to an LBP domain, and detecting a face through scanning across the converted image. At least one or more of steps of converting and scanning is executed by a plurality of processing units. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117547 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFICATION - A method and system for de-identifying a video sequence are provided. The method may include the steps of capturing a video sequence, comprising a number of individual frames, including one or more users performing one or more actions, and using activity recognition to recognize one of the one or more actions. One or more of the plurality of frames may be defined as comprising the recognized one or more actions, and a portion of the one or more of the plurality of frames may be identified to remain visible. The non-identified portions of the one or more of the plurality of frames and the non-defined frames may be de-identified. This method may be applied to the determine of whether a user has ingested a medication pill. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117556 | TECHNIQUES FOR GROUPING IMAGES - Techniques for grouping images are disclosed. In some situations, the techniques include identifying at least one event-based image group among a plurality of images based on an event that is associated with each identified image, receiving a selection of one or more objects in a first image of the identified event-based image group, identifying other images in the identified event-based image group that each include at least one of the selected one or more objects, and associating the identified images with the first image. In one instance, the selected objects include individuals captured in the image. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125227 | FACIAL STRUCTURAL SHAPING - An eyebrow shaping method includes providing an image of a face. Multiple guidelines are determined on the image and points and areas are located via the guidelines. A face is shaped with contouring and lightening to have Golden Ratio proportions via the different points and zones. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125228 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING FACE INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for analyzing face information in an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting at least one face region from an image that is being captured by a camera module, zooming in the at least one detected face region, and analyzing the at least one detected and zoomed in face region according to at least one analysis item. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125229 | FACIAL STRUCTURAL SHAPING - An eyebrow shaping method includes providing an image of a face. Multiple guidelines are determined on the image and points and areas are located via the guidelines. A face is shaped with contouring and lightening to have Golden Ratio proportions via the different points and zones. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125270 | System And Method For Providing Objectified Image Renderings Using Recognition Information From Images - An embodiment provides for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a library of images. For each image in the collection, a captured image may be analyzed to recognize information from image data contained in the captured image, and an index may be generated, where the index data is based on the recognized information. Using the index, functionality such as search and retrieval is enabled. Various recognition techniques, including those that use the face, clothing, apparel, and combinations of characteristics may be utilized. Recognition may be performed on, among other things, persons and text carried on objects. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132717 | FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A face recognition method is provided. The method includes dividing an input video into different sets of frames and detecting faces of each frame in the input video. The method also includes generating face tracks for the whole video. Further, the method includes applying a robust collaborative representation-based classifier to recover a clean image from complex occlusions and corruptions for a face test sample and perform classification. In addition, the method also includes outputting the video containing the recognized face images. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132718 | FACE RECOGNITION USING GRADIENT BASED FEATURE ANALYSIS - Computer-readable storage media, computing devices and methods are discussed herein. In embodiments, a computing device may be configured to perform facial recognition based on gradient based feature extractions of images of faces. In embodiments, the computing device may be configured to determine directional matching patterns of the images from the gradient based feature extraction and may utilize these directional matching patterns in performing a facial recognition analysis of the images of faces. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132720 | VECTOR-BASED FACE RECOGNITION ALGORITHM AND IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM - Systems and methods for performing face recognition and image searching are provided. A system for face recognition and image searching includes an ingestion system, a search system, a user device, and a database of galley files that include feature vectors. The ingestion system crawls the internet starting with a seed URL to scrape image files and generate feature vectors. Feature vectors of images input by a user may be compared by the search system to feature vectors in the gallery files. A method for generating feature vectors includes landmark detection, component aligning, texture mapping, vector computation, comparing cluster centers defined by vectors stored in a database with vectors generated based on an input image, linear discriminant analysis, and principal component analysis. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132721 | Confidential Content Display in Flexible Display Devices - Confidential content within a file is masked for display on a flexible display device. A legend relating the masking to the confidential content is displayed in a hidden area created by bending the flexible display device. The flexible display device monitors secondary users and their gaze towards the flexible display device and the hidden area to determine if unauthorized secondary users can see the display and hidden area of the flexible display device. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132723 | Automatic Photo Capture Based on Social Components and Identity Recognition - In one embodiment, a mobile device automatically captures image frames by acquiring a real-time video sequence, selecting one or more frames from the real-time video sequence based on social network information and identity recognition, and storing the selected one or more frames in a local storage of the mobile device. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING FACIAL FEATURE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION - A method and an apparatus for extracting a facial feature and a method and an apparatus for recognizing a face are provided, in which the apparatus for extracting a facial feature may extract facial landmarks from a current input image, sample a skin region and a facial component region based on the extracted facial landmarks, generate a probabilistic model associated with the sampled skin region and the facial component region, extract the facial component region from a face region included in the input image using the generated probabilistic model, and extract facial feature information from the extracted facial component region. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140405 | PREVENTING FACE-BASED AUTHENTICATION SPOOFING - System and techniques for preventing face-based authentication spoofing are described herein. A visible light emitter may be controlled to project a pattern into a camera's field of view during an authentication attempt. An image may be obtained from the camera for the authentication attempt. A potential spoofing region on image may be identified by finding the pattern. An authentication attempt based on a face found in the potential spoofing region may be prevented. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140406 | FALSE FACE REPRESENTATION IDENTIFICATION - Systems and methods for identifying a false representation of a human face are provided. In one example, a method for identifying a false representation of a human face includes receiving a plurality of different data streams captured by a respective plurality of sensors of differing sensor types sensing a candidate face. In a cascading plurality of stages, one or more of the different data streams are analyzed, wherein each of the stages comprises a different analysis. In one of the cascading plurality of stages, the method determines that one or more of the different data streams corresponds to a false representation of the human face. Based on determining that one or more of the different data streams corresponds to a false representation of a human face, an indication of the false representation is outputted. | 05-19-2016 |
20160148041 | METHOD FOR FACE RECOGNITION THROUGH FACIAL EXPRESSION NORMALIZATION, RECORDING MEDIUM AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for face recognition through facial expression normalization includes: fitting an input two-dimensional face image into a three-dimensional face model by using a three-dimensional face database; normalizing the three-dimensional face model into a neutral-expression three-dimensional face model by using a neutral-expression parameter learned from the three-dimensional face database; converting the neutral-expression three-dimensional face model into a neutral-expression two-dimensional face image; and recognizing the neutral-expression two-dimensional face image from a two-dimensional face database. Accordingly, face recognition may be performed with high reliability without a loss of information. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148043 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS - A system for enhancing a facial expression includes a processing circuit configured to receive video of a user, generate facial data corresponding to a face of the user, analyze the facial data to identify a facial expression, enhance the facial data based on the facial expression, and output modified video including the enhanced facial data. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154993 | AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF HAIR IN IMAGES | 06-02-2016 |
20160154994 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING FACE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING FACE | 06-02-2016 |
20160162728 | SKIN ANALYSIS METHOD, SKIN ANALYSIS DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SKIN ANALYSIS DEVICE - A control method for controlling a skin analysis device is a control method for controlling a skin analysis device including a camera for obtaining a face image of a subject, a display for displaying the face image of the subject, and a computer, wherein the control method causes the computer of the skin analysis device to execute: obtaining the face image of the subject; determining a target extraction criterion for each of a plurality of skin areas of the face image based on a position on the face image; and extracting a target that satisfies the determined extraction criterion from the face image; and displaying the extracted target on the display of the skin analysis device. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162729 | IDENTITY VERIFICATION USING BIOMETRIC DATA - A method for identity verification using biometric data is disclosed herein. The method comprises receiving, by a processor, an image of an identification document and receiving a video associated with a face of a user. A predefined number of frames is selected in the video. Based on the selection, it is determined whether the video depicts a live person. Additionally, the face of the user in the video is compared with the image of the identification document and, based on the comparing, results of the identity verification are provided. | 06-09-2016 |
20160163028 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - The present application discloses a method and a device for image processing. The method comprises: performing facial recognition on an image to be processed; determining a skin area to be processed in a facial area according to detection results; determining the locations of skin blemishes in the skin area to be processed; removing the skin blemishes in the facial area according to the determined locations of the skin blemishes in the skin area to be processed to obtain a processed image. The method and the device for image processing can modify people's skin in an image automatically, that is to say, both light-colored blemishes and obvious problems on the skin are removed. In contrast to the solutions for removing skin blemishes manually in various existing APPs for skin beautification, the method provided by the present application provides a better experience for users. | 06-09-2016 |
20160171284 | GROUPING FACE IMAGES USING STATISTIC DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATE | 06-16-2016 |
20160171286 | FACE DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH LOOKUP TABLE | 06-16-2016 |
20160171288 | FACILITATING LEGAL APPROVAL OF DIGITAL IMAGES | 06-16-2016 |
20160171289 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | 06-16-2016 |
20160171290 | TAGGING AN INDIVIDUAL IN A DIGITAL IMAGE | 06-16-2016 |
20160171291 | FACE RECOGNITION BASED ON SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PROXIMITY | 06-16-2016 |
20160171805 | SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENTRANCE/EXIT USING BLOCKING AISLE | 06-16-2016 |
20160180147 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF FACE AND THEREBY LOCALIZE THE EYE REGION FOR IRIS RECOGNITION | 06-23-2016 |
20160180148 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INTRINSIC IMAGES USING A SINGLE REFLECTANCE TECHNIQUE | 06-23-2016 |
20160180150 | Systems and Methods for Real-Time User Verification in Online Education | 06-23-2016 |
20160180151 | GENERATING NUMERIC EMBEDDINGS OF IMAGES | 06-23-2016 |
20160180152 | MANAGED NOTIFICATION SYSTEM | 06-23-2016 |
20160180154 | OBJECT POPULARITY DETECTION | 06-23-2016 |
20160188958 | Detecting Facial Liveliness - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for detecting facial liveliness are provided. Implementations include actions of processing first and second facial images of a subject to determine first and second corneal reflections of an object, the first and second facial images being captured at first and second sequential time points, determining a corneal reflection change of the object based on the determined first and second corneal reflections, comparing the determined corneal reflection change of the object to a motion associated with the first and second time points, and determining facial liveliness of the subject based on a result of the comparison. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188960 | Personalized, Automated Receptionist - Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a personalized, automated receptionist are provided herein. A method for providing an automated receptionist for a host user includes obtaining one or more images of a work environment of the host user; processing the one or more images to determine if at least one visitor is present in the work environment; and if the at least one visitor is determined to be present in the work environment, notifying the host user that the at least one visitor is present in the work environment, wherein at least one of the steps are performed by at least one hardware device. The method may be initiated, for example, when the host user is not present in the work environment. The automated receptionist can optionally (i) provide a greeting to the at least one visitor; (ii) enable communication between the at least one visitor and the host user; and/or (iii) provide one or more information items to the at least one visitor when the host user is not present. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188961 | Personalized, Automated Receptionist - Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a personalized, automated, receptionist are provided herein. A method for providing an automated receptionist for a host user includes obtaining one or more images of a work environment of the host user; processing the one or more images to determine if a visitor is present in the work environment; and if the visitor is determined to be present in the work environment, notifying the host user that the visitor is present in the work environment, wherein at least one of the steps are performed by at least one hardware device. The method may be initiated, for example, when the host user is not present in the work environment. The automated receptionist can optionally (i) provide a greeting to the visitor; (ii) enable communication between the visitor and the host user; and/or (iii) provide one or more information items to the visitor when the host user is not present. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188963 | METHOD OF FACE DETECTION, METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING, FACE DETECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - A method of face detection to be performed by an apparatus including an image pickup module includes: obtaining a first image including image information of an object that is in focus; obtaining a pseudo distance between the image pickup module and the object when the first image is obtained by the obtaining; determining a first ratio of a plurality of ratios as a scaling value based on the pseudo distance; and performing face detection of the first image by changing the scaling value based on the first ratio. | 06-30-2016 |
20160188964 | SYSTEM FOR VIDEO BASED FACE RECOGNITION USING AN ADAPTIVE DICTIONARY - The method includes a dictionary including a target collection defined by images that are known with a defined level of certainty to include a subject and an imposter collection defined by images of individuals other than the subject. In the method, images of an area are captured over a period of time. In respect of each image: a matching calculation is carried out, based upon a comparison of the image captured with the images in the dictionary to result in a measure of confidence that the subject is in the area; and an inference determination is made to replace one of the target collection images with a further image that is known with the defined level of certainty, the determination being a function of the measure of confidence resultant from the captured image, the measure resultant from one or more previously captured images and the associated capture times. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189006 | ROBUST ERROR CORRECTION WITH MULTI-MODEL REPRESENTATION FOR FACE RECOGNITION - The present invention provides a face recognition method on a computing device, comprising: storing a plurality of training face images, each training face image corresponding to a face class; obtaining one or more face test samples; applying a representation model to represent the face test sample as a combination of the training face images and error terms, wherein a coefficient vector is corresponded to the training face images; estimating the coefficient vector and the error terms by solving a constrained optimization problem; computing a residual error for each face class, the residual error for a face class being an error between the face test sample and the face test sample's representation model represented by the training samples in the face class; classifying the face test sample by selecting the face class that yields the minimal residual error; and presenting the face class of the face test sample. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189413 | IMAGE CREATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE CREATION APPARATUS - An image creation method executed by a control unit including the steps: extracting a plurality of specific portions in a facial region of a facial image created by photographing a face from a front; selecting a plurality of illustration part images, which is viewed from a different view point from the front, corresponding to the specific portions; and making a portrait image of the face viewed from the different view point from the front, based on the illustration part images selected in the step of selecting. | 06-30-2016 |
20160191822 | HEART RATE DETECTION DEVICE AND FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM WITH THE HEART RATE DETECTION DEVICE - According to an embodiment, a facial recognition system includes an image sensor, a facial recognition processing unit, a heart rate detection unit, and an authentication unit. The image sensor detects incident light by an infrared pixel, and outputs detected infrared information. The facial recognition processing unit recognizes the face of a person based on image information signal captured by the image sensor. The heart rate detection unit reads the heart rate of the person from pulses in a blood vessel in the face based on the infrared information. The authentication unit receives facial recognition signal outputted from the facial recognition processing unit. The authentication unit authenticates the person as an identical person when the heart rate is inputted, and authenticates the person as a photograph when the heart rate is not inputted. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196467 | Three-Dimensional Face Recognition Device Based on Three Dimensional Point Cloud and Three-Dimensional Face Recognition Method Based on Three-Dimensional Point Cloud | 07-07-2016 |
20160203305 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTHENTICATING USER | 07-14-2016 |
20160203366 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING PRINCIPAL FACIAL IMAGE IN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SAME | 07-14-2016 |
20160253549 | Estimating personal information from facial features | 09-01-2016 |
20160253551 | Polarization Imaging for Facial Recognition Enhancement System and Method | 09-01-2016 |
20160378788 | AUTOMATIC METATAGGING IN IMAGES - Various systems and methods for implementing automatic image metatagging are described herein. A system for metatagging media content comprises a camera system; a user input module to receive user input from a user to capture media content via the camera system; a camera control module to: activate the camera system to capture a scene, and obtain an image with at least a portion of a face of the user; a user identification module to identify the user based on the image; and a metatagging module to tag the scene with the user as an author of the scene | 12-29-2016 |
20160379041 | FACE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Face recognition of a face, to determine whether the face correlates with an enrolled face, may include generating a personalized three-dimensional (3D) face model based on a two-dimensional (2D) input image of the face, acquiring 3D shape information and a normalized 2D input image of the face based on the personalized 3D face model, generating feature information based on the 3D shape information and pixel color values of the normalized 2D input image, and comparing the feature information with feature information associated with the enrolled face. The feature information may include first and second feature information generated based on applying first and second deep neural network models to the pixel color values of the normalized 2D input image and the 3D shape information, respectively. The personalized 3D face model may be generated based on transforming a generic 3D face model based on landmarks detected in the 2D input image. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379042 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CONFIRMING IDENTITY - A system, apparatus, and method for confirming the identity of a person for access using an image of that person. The system includes a camera, a data storage device, a subject identification device, and a processor to compare a plurality of current images of the subject to a plurality of stored images of that subject and confirm that the subject live and an approved subject. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379043 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACE RECOGNITION - A system and method for generating a descriptor for a face is provided. The descriptor is operable to generate information about a given region in a face image to enable face recognition. The descriptor provided herein is a low dimension relative to many existing descriptors providing similar face recognition accuracy. In another aspect, a system and method for face recognition is provided. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACE IMAGE RECOGNITION - A method for face image recognition is disclosed. The method comprises generating one or more face region pairs of face images to be compared and recognized; forming a plurality of feature modes by exchanging the two face regions of each face region pair and horizontally flipping each face region of each face region pair; receiving, by one or more convolutional neural networks, the plurality of feature modes, each of which forms a plurality of input maps in the convolutional neural network; extracting, by the one or more convolutional neural networks, relational features from the input maps, which reflect identity similarities of the face images; and recognizing whether the compared face images belong to the same identity based on the extracted relational features of the face images. In addition, a system for face image recognition is also disclosed. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379045 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INFORMING A USER DURING APPROACH TO A DESTINATION - A mode of transportation, a device, and a method for informing a user on approaching a destination which includes predefining the destination for the user requesting an identification of a person present at the destination, comparing the identification with associated person-related data and, in response to the result of the comparison, outputting a note to the user with respect to the person. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379046 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC-BASED TIMEKEEPING - A computerized system for biometric-based tracking of individuals. The system includes at least one processor configured to execute the instructions of one or more software modules stored on a nonvolatile computer readable medium, a media storage database, a time entry database configured to store at least one time entry, and an image processing module configured to transmit a digital image to a facial recognition service, to receive a response from the facial recognition service indicating an identity of a recognized person in the digital image, to store the digital image to the media storage database, and to store a time entry to the time entry database. The time entry includes the identity and the time at which the digital image was taken. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379050 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AUTHENTICITY OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT - A method for determining authenticity of an object includes, detecting the object included in each of a plurality of two-dimensional images captured at different angles, detecting one or more feature points in the detected object, generating three-dimensional data representing a surface around each of the one or more feature points, generating a similarity value of the generated three-dimensional data relative to referential three-dimensional data, with respect to each of the one or more feature points, and determining whether or not the object is a real object, based on the similarity value generated with respect to each of the one or more feature points. | 12-29-2016 |
20160379072 | VIDEO DETECTION METHOD, VIDEO DETECTION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The application relates to a video detection method, a video detection system, and a computer program product, which can implement liveness detection for a human body. The video detection method comprises: obtaining video data acquired by a video data acquisition device; determining a to-be-detected object based on the video data; obtaining a to-be-detected signal corresponding to the to-be-detected object; and determining whether the to-be-detected signal is a liveness physiological signal, wherein the to-be-detected signal is a frequency domain signal corresponding to the video data of the to-be-detected object | 12-29-2016 |
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