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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 )...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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