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US20090310828 |
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...
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US20090310829 |
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...
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US20090309702 |
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...
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US20090309700 |
AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR
The authentication apparatus calculates authenticities based upon similarity between detected face image data and a plurality of items of registered face image data prepared beforehand. In...
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US20090304239 |
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...
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US20090304238 |
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...
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US20090285454 |
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...
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US20090285456 |
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...
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US20090285455 |
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;...
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US20090285457 |
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...
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US20090285488 |
Face tracking method for electronic camera device
The present invention discloses a face tracking method for electronic camera devices. The method is applied to an electronic camera device having a face database and a face classifier, and the face...
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US20090268028 |
FLOW LINE TRACING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SUPPORTING FLOW LINE TRACING SYSTEM
A flow line creation section generates flow line data indicative of a trajectory of a customer moving in a monitored area. The generated flow line data is stored in a flow line database. A customer...
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US20090262988 |
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...
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US20090262989 |
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...
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US20090262213 |
IMAGING DEVICE AND SUBJECT DETECTION METHOD
An imaging device includes a first detection part which detects one or more subjects in an image captured by the image capturing part capturing an image continuously; a second detection part which...
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US20090262987 |
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...
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US20090256678 |
METHODS FOR TAGGING PERSON IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION TO DIGITAL DATA AND RECOMMENDING ADDITIONAL TAG BY USING DECISION FUSION
Person identification information is extracted from digital data with a high accuracy and additional tag is recommended by adopting a decision fusion. In other words, the person identification...
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US20090257625 |
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...
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US20090251541 |
Intelligent Vehicle Access Control System
An apparatus for the automatic inspection of a motor vehicle has an identification and psychological profiling zone, an automatic inspection zone and a manual inspection zone. A biometric and heart...
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US20090251560 |
VIDEO LIGHT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING FACIAL RECOGNITION USING A VIDEO CAMERA
A video lighting system ( 100 ) for use with a personal computer or other electronic device ( 103 ) includes a display ( 105 ) that is used in connection with a microprocessor running facial...
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US20090252383 |
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...
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US20090238419 |
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....
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US20090238410 |
FACE RECOGNITION WITH COMBINED PCA-BASED DATASETS
A face recognition method for working with two or more collections of facial images is provided. A representation framework is determined for a first collection of facial images including at least...
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US20090232364 |
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...
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US20090232363 |
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...
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US20090232365 |
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...
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US20090226048 |
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...
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US20090226047 |
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...
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US20090226046 |
Characterizing Or Recommending A Program
A method of characterizing a program includes defining a scene as a portrayal of an emotion of a first character and identifying each scene within a first program to apportion the first program...
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US20090226049 |
Practical Modeling and Acquisition of Layered Facial Reflectance
Techniques are described for modeling layered facial reflectance consisting of specular reflectance, single scattering, and shallow and deep subsurface scattering. Parameters of appropriate...
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US20090226045 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPEATABLE FACIAL DISTORTION
In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for repeatable facial distortion. One embodiment of a method for generating a secure facial image from an original facial image includes...
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US20090220127 |
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...
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US20090219405 |
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, EYE OPEN/CLOSED DEGREE DETERMINATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS
An information processing apparatus inputs an image, detects the face of a person from the input image, and calculates a feature amount associated with the open/closed state of eyes of the detected...
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US20090220128 |
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...
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US20090214087 |
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;...
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US20090207269 |
Image processing device, camera device, communication system, image processing method, and program
An image processing device includes a face detector configured to detect a face based on a taken image, and an output processor configured to have a function to execute privacy-mask processing for...
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US20090208068 |
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...
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US20090201389 |
DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
Provided are a digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The digital image processing apparatus includes a digital signal processing unit that recognizes a facial...
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US20090202114 |
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...
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US20090196464 |
Continuous face recognition with online learning
System and method of face classification. A system ( 10 ) comprises a face classifier ( 40 ) that provides a determination of whether or not a face image detected in a video input ( 20 )...
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US20090196467 |
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...
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US20090196506 |
SUBWINDOW SETTING METHOD FOR FACE DETECTOR
Disclosed herein is a subwindow setting method for a face detector for detecting whether one or more facial images exist in each of subwindows having a set size while sequentially setting the...
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US20090196465 |
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...
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US20090196466 |
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...
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US20090190804 |
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...
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US20090190803 |
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...
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US20090185046 |
Camera and Image Processing Program
To insert an inserting-image at an appropriate position of image data by providing an imaging unit imaging an image of an object and generating the image data, a recognizing unit performing face...
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US20090185056 |
ELECTRONIC CAMERA
An electronic camera includes an imaging device. The imaging device has an imaging surface capturing an object scene and repeatedly outputs an object scene image. An orientation of the imaging...
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US20090185723 |
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...
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US20090180673 |
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...
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