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Detecting and segmenting local deformation in a tracked video object

  • US 6,678,416 B1
  • Filed: 02/08/2000
  • Issued: 01/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method for identifying a local affine deformation occurring along an estimate of an object boundary, in which the estimated object boundary corresponds to an object being tracked among a plurality of image frames, comprising:

  • calculating an edge energy change ratio for a plurality of edge points describing said estimated object boundary; and

    identifying a portion of said object boundary less than an entire length of said object boundary as exhibiting a local affine deformation based upon said edge energy change ratio, wherein said step of identifying the portion of said object boundary comprises identifying a sequence of edge points among said plurality of edge points for which the calculated edge energy change ratio exceeds a prescribed threshold for each edge point in said sequence of edge points.

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