SPEEDUP OF FACE DETECTION IN DIGITAL IMAGES

Patent №

US 7,190,829

Granted

2007-03-13

Filed 2003

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10610245

Improved methods and apparatuses are provided for use in face detection. The methods and apparatuses significantly reduce the number of candidate windows within a digital image that need to be processed using more complex and/or time consuming face detection algorithms. The improved methods and apparatuses include a skin color filter and an adaptive non-face skipping scheme.

VisionG06V 40/162G06F 18/214

AI classification

Vision1.00
Evolutionary computation0.21
Machine learning0.01
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 142580020

Assignors

ZHANG, LEI, LI, MINGJING, ZHANG, HONG-JIANG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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