COLLECTING INFORMATION RELATING TO IDENTITY PARAMETERS OF A VEHICLE
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Abstract
The present invention discloses methods and systems for collecting information relating to identity parameters of a vehicle. According to the invention an image of the vehicle is obtained. A sub-image within the image is identified, interest points within the sub-image are detected and the sub-image is processed so as to obtain descriptors representing the interest points. The descriptors are matched to predetermined descriptors representing interest points in previously obtained images respective of known identity parameters and the information is stored in a record representing an identity of the vehicle.
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39 Claims
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1-18. -18. (canceled)
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19. A method comprising:
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obtaining one or more images of a vehicle; detecting one or more interest points within at least one of the one or more images; for at least one of the one or more interest points, processing the at least one of the one or more images to determine one or more descriptors, the one or more descriptors comprising one or more representations of the at least one of the one or more interest points; matching, with a processor, at least one of the one or more of the descriptors to one or more templates, each of the one or more templates comprising one or more descriptors determined in relation to one or more previously obtained images; calculating a confidence measure of a match between the at least one of the one or more of the descriptors and at least one of the one or more of the templates; and identifying one or more identity parameters of the vehicle based on the confidence measure. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A system comprising:
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a memory; and a processor, coupled to the memory, to; obtain one or more images of a vehicle; detect one or more interest points within at least one of the one or more images; for at least one of the one or more interest points, process the at least one of the one or more images to determine one or more descriptors, the one or more descriptors comprising one or more representations of the at least one of the one or more interest points; match at least one of the one or more of the descriptors to one or more templates, each of the one or more templates comprising one or more descriptors determined in relation to one or more previously obtained images; calculate a confidence measure of a match between the at least one of the one or more of the descriptors and at least one of the one or more of the templates; and identify one or more identity parameters of the vehicle based on the confidence measure. - View Dependent Claims (37)
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38. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
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obtaining one or more images of a vehicle; detecting one or more interest points within at least one of the one or more images; for at least one of the one or more interest points, processing the at least one of the one or more images to determine one or more descriptors, the one or more descriptors comprising one or more representations of the at least one of the one or more interest points; matching, with the processor, at least one of the one or more of the descriptors to one or more templates, each of the one or more templates comprising one or more descriptors determined in relation to one or more previously obtained images; calculating a confidence measure of a match between the at least one of the one or more of the descriptors and at least one of the one or more of the templates; and identifying one or more identity parameters of the vehicle based on the confidence measure. - View Dependent Claims (39)
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