PROCESSING IMAGE DATA

• US 20120007975A1
• Filed: 06/01/2011
• Published: 01/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Lyons, Nicholas P., Zhang, Tong, Damera-Venkata, Niranjan
• Application Number:
  US13/150,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20120007975A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for identifying an image having a target individual therein. An example system includes an image capture system that generates image data representing a set of a captured images of a predetermined area, an image database that stores the image data, a feature information database that stores feature information for identifying a person caught in an image as the target individual, a target individual image database that stores exemplar image data representing an image of the individual, and a processing subsystem for processing the image data to detect the target individual using the feature information and the exemplar image data.

Claims

1. An image processing system for identifying an image having a target individual therein, comprising:

an image capture system that generates image data representing a set of a captured images of a predetermined area;

an image database that stores the image data;

a feature information database that stores feature information for identifying a person caught in an image as the target individual;

a target individual image database that stores exemplar image data representing an image of the individual; and

a processing subsystem for processing the image data to detect the target individual using the feature information and the exemplar image data.

2. The image processing system of claim 1, further comprising using the location of the area and a time of capture of the image data in order to provide an indication of an area where the target individual is present.

3. A method for image processing, comprising:

generating target image data representing an image of a target individual;

providing feature data representing a description of the target individual;

providing image input data representing images captured using image capture devices positioned in a monitored area; and

using the target image data and the feature data to identify images from the input data in which the target individual has been detected.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising using the location of the area and a time of capture of the image data in order to provide an indication of an area where the target individual is present.