System and method for assessing usability of captured images
First Claim
1. A system for estimating image quality of a digital image, the system comprising:
- a processing device; and
a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions that are configured to cause the processing device to;
access a corpus of digital images of one or more subjects taken by one or more image capturing devices,receive, for at least a subset of the corpus of digital images, an indicator that one or more patches of each image in the subset is out of focus,train a classifier by obtaining and storing in a data store;
an n-dimensional feature representation of each pixel in each image; and
a focus value that represents an extent to which each pixel in the image is in focus or out of focus, anduse the classifier to analyze pixels of a new digital image and output an assessment of whether each analyzed pixel in the new digital image is in focus or out of focus.
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Abstract
A system estimates quality of a digital image by accessing a corpus of digital images of one or more subjects, such as a facet of a property. The system will receive, for at least a subset of the corpus, an indicator that one or more patches of each image in the subset is out of focus. The system will train a classifier by obtaining a feature representation of each pixel in each image, along with a focus value that represents an extent to which each pixel in the image is in focus or out of focus. The system will use the classifier to analyze pixels of a new digital image and assess whether each analyzed pixel in the new digital image is in focus or out of focus. The system may use the image to assess whether an incident occurred, such as storm-related damage to the property.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for estimating image quality of a digital image, the system comprising:
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a processing device; and a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions that are configured to cause the processing device to; access a corpus of digital images of one or more subjects taken by one or more image capturing devices, receive, for at least a subset of the corpus of digital images, an indicator that one or more patches of each image in the subset is out of focus, train a classifier by obtaining and storing in a data store; an n-dimensional feature representation of each pixel in each image; and a focus value that represents an extent to which each pixel in the image is in focus or out of focus, and use the classifier to analyze pixels of a new digital image and output an assessment of whether each analyzed pixel in the new digital image is in focus or out of focus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for estimating image quality of a digital image, the system comprising:
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a processing device; an imaging device; and a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions that are configured to cause the processing device to; access a corpus of digital images of one or more subjects taken by one or more image capturing devices, receive, for at least a subset of the corpus of digital images, an indicator that one or more patches of each image in the subset is out of focus, train a classifier by obtaining and storing in a data store; an n-dimensional feature representation of each pixel in each image; and a focus value that represents an extent to which each pixel in the image is in focus or out of focus, and use the classifier to analyze pixels of a new digital image and generate an assessment of whether each analyzed pixel in the new digital image is in focus or out of f determine whether the assessment for the new digital image satisfies a usability criterion; and if the assessment satisfies the usability criterion, use the new digital image to determine whether that new digital image depicts damage that corresponds to a particular incident, otherwise automatically cause the imaging device to capture an additional new digital image. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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13. A method of estimating image quality of a digital image, the method comprising:
by a processing device, executing programming instructions that cause the processing device to; access a corpus of digital images of one or more subjects taken by one or more image capturing devices, receive, for at least a subset of the corpus of digital images, an indicator that one or more patches of each image in the subset is out of focus, train a classifier by obtaining and storing in a data store; an n-dimensional feature representation of each pixel in each image; and a focus value that represents an extent to which each pixel in the image is in focus or out of focus, and use the classifier to analyze pixels of a new digital image and output an assessment of whether each analyzed pixel in the new digital image is in focus or out of focus. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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