Method for finding a pattern which may fall partially outside an image
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1. A method for finding a whole pattern, a portion of the whole pattern falling outside the boundary of an image, the method including:
- for each candidate pose of a search model of the whole pattern that results in a transformed search model that falls partially outside the boundary of the image, applying a match-quality metric to only a subset of search model features and corresponding image features, the subset being uniquely determined by the pose.
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Abstract
A method is provided for finding a whole pattern in an image, where at least a portion of the whole pattern falls outside the boundary of the image. The method includes, for each candidate pose of a search model of the whole pattern that results in a transformed search model that may extend beyond the boundary of the image, applying a match-quality metric to only a subset of search model features and corresponding image features, the subset being uniquely determined by the pose. The features which do not overlap the image at that pose of the model are completely excluded from the metric computation. All the relevant available information is used, using no arbitrarily hypothesized information. The higher-level strategy of the search procedure is free to consider poses where the model extends partially outside the image, and the results of each metric computation will be the most true value possible.
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1. A method for finding a whole pattern, a portion of the whole pattern falling outside the boundary of an image, the method including:
for each candidate pose of a search model of the whole pattern that results in a transformed search model that falls partially outside the boundary of the image, applying a match-quality metric to only a subset of search model features and corresponding image features, the subset being uniquely determined by the pose. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for finding a whole pattern, at least a portion of the whole pattern falling outside the boundary of an image, the method including:
for each candidate pose of a search model of the whole pattern that results in a transformed search model that falls partially outside the boundary of the image, computing a match-quality score by considering only model features of the transformed search model that overlap the image, thereby ignoring model features of the transformed search model that fall outside the boundary of the image. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for finding a pattern which may fall partially outside a boundary of an image, the method comprising:
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providing a search model, the search model having a model boundary; providing an image, the image having an image boundary and a pattern only partially contained within the image boundary; performing a search strategy for systematically generating a sequence of candidate poses of the search model, some of the candidate poses possibly resulting in a partial overlap of the search model and the image; computing a match-quality metric for each candidate pose in the sequence of candidate poses to provide a plurality of metric results; and using the plurality of metric results to determine the pose of the pattern in the image. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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