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Picture recognition apparatus and method

  • US 20010038714A1
  • Filed: 01/31/2001
  • Published: 11/08/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A picture recognition apparatus, comprising:

  • an object modeling execution part for estimating variations in appearance of an object caused by variations in a capturing environment and modeling the object;

    an object model registering part for previously registering the object model obtained in the object modeling execution part in a database;

    a picture information input part for inputting picture information of an object to be a recognition target;

    a similarity determining part for matching the input picture information with the object model previously registered in the object model registering part, and determining a similarity with respect to the registered object model; and

    an object recognizing part for outputting a type of the object to be a recognition target determined to be most similar among the registered object model, wherein, in the object modeling execution part, information of a plurality of pictures captured by changing a relative position and posture of the object with respect to the fixed picture information input part is input, and variations in appearance of the object caused by possible variations in a capturing environment are estimated to be modeled based on the input information of a plurality of pictures.

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