Cooperative camera network
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1. A cooperative camera network station comprising:
- at least one camera;
an initialization component connected to said at least one camera;
a differencing component connected to said at least one camera; and
a color signature extraction component connected to said differencing component.
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Abstract
A cooperative camera network involving segmenting an image of an object and extracting a color signature from it. The color signature may be matched with the other signatures in an attempt to identify the object. There also can be combining and fusing the tracking of people and objects with image processing and the identification of the people and objects being tracked in an area or facility.
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16 Claims
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1. A cooperative camera network station comprising:
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at least one camera; an initialization component connected to said at least one camera; a differencing component connected to said at least one camera; and a color signature extraction component connected to said differencing component. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method for identifying an object comprising:
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obtaining a first image of a scene; obtaining a second image of the scene; differencing the first and second images into a segmented image having substantially dissimilar regions of the first and second images retained; thresholding regions that have a set threshold level of dissimilarity and adding them to the segmented image; and extracting a color signature from the segmented image; and matching the color signature with a color signature in a database. - View Dependent Claims (6)
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- 7. The method of clam 6, wherein the histogram comprises the number of pixels in the segmented image for each color value of a range of color values for a first color.
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9. A method for identifying an object comprising:
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obtaining a first image of a scene; obtaining a second image of the scene; differencing the first and second images into a segmented image having substantially dissimilar regions of the first and second images retained; thresholding regions that have a set threshold level of dissimilarity and adding them to the segmented image; and extracting a color signature from the segmented image by attaining a histogram of the segmented image, wherein the histogram comprises the number of pixels in the segmented image for each color value of a range of color values for a first color; matching the color signature with a color signature in a database; and matching the histogram with a histogram of the color signature in the database by selecting color values that have pixels in both histograms; noting the smaller number of pixels of the two numbers for each selected color value; adding the smaller numbers of pixels of all of the selected color values to a first sum; adding up the numbers of pixels for all of the color values of the histogram of the segmented image to a second sum; dividing the first sum by the second sum to attain a value of a match of the color signature in the database with the color signature of the segmented image, for the first color. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. An identification system comprising:
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means for imaging; means for initializing connected to said means for imaging; means for storing data connected to said means for imaging; means for segmenting connected to said means for storing data; and means for identifying connected to said means for storing data, wherein said means for identifying comprises; means for determining a color signature of an image; and means for comparing the color signature with at least another color signature. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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