DETECTING SILHOUETTE EDGES IN IMAGES

Patent №

US 7,206,449

Granted

2007-04-17

Filed 2003

Owner

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10391999

A method detects silhouette edges in images. An ambient image is acquired of a scene with ambient light. A set of illuminated images is also acquired of the scene. Each illuminated image is acquired with a different light source illuminating the scene. The ambient image is combined with the set of illuminated to detect cast shadows, and silhouette edge pixels are located from the cast shadows.

VisionG06T 5/50G06T 11/00G06T 2207/10152G06T 2207/20192

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Natural language0.01
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Ownership

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.

assignment · 138950513

Assignors

RASKAR, RAMESH, YU, JINGYI

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

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