FEATURE DENSITY OBJECT CLASSIFICATION, SYSTEMS AND METHODS
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Abstract
A system capable of determining which recognition algorithms should be applied to regions of interest within digital representations is presented. A preprocessing module utilizes one or more feature identification algorithms to determine regions of interest based on feature density. The preprocessing modules leverages the feature density signature for each region to determine which of a plurality of diverse recognition modules should operate on the region of interest. A specific embodiment that focuses on structured documents is also presented. Further, the disclosed approach can be enhanced by addition of an object classifier that classifies types of objects found in the regions of interest.
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59 Claims
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38. An object data processing system comprising:
at least one processor configured to execute; a plurality of diverse recognition units stored on at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, each recognition unit comprising at least one recognition algorithm and having feature density selection criteria; and a data preprocessing unit executed by at least one processor, the data preprocessing unit comprising an invariant feature identification algorithm and configured to; obtain a digital representation of a scene, the scene comprising one or more textual media; generate a set of invariant features by applying the invariant feature identification algorithm to the digital representation; cluster the set of invariant features into regions of interest in the digital representation of the scene, each region of interest having a region feature density; classify, by a region classifier, at least one of the regions of interest according to object type as a function of attributes derived from the region feature density and the digital representation, wherein the at least one of the classified regions of interest corresponds to text; and use a classification result corresponding to the at least one of the regions of interest to classify another of the regions of interest according to object type, wherein the another of the regions of interest corresponds to a region of interest for images. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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58. An object data processing system comprising:
at least one processor configured to execute; a plurality of diverse recognition units stored on at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, each recognition unit comprising at least one recognition algorithm and having feature density selection criteria; and a data preprocessing unit executed by at least one processor, the data preprocessing unit comprising an invariant feature identification algorithm and configured to; obtain a digital representation of a scene, the scene comprising one or more textual media; generate a set of invariant features by applying the invariant feature identification algorithm to the digital representation; cluster the set of invariant features into regions of interest in the digital representation of the scene, each region of interest having a region feature density; classify, by a region classifier, at least one of the regions of interest according to object type as a function of attributes derived from the region feature density and the digital representation;
wherein the at least one of the classified regions of interest corresponds to text; anduse a classification result corresponding to the at least one of the regions of interest to classify another of the regions of interest according to object type, wherein the another of the regions of interest corresponds to a region of interest for images; assign each region of interest at least one recognition unit from the plurality of diverse recognition units as a function of the region feature density of each region of interest and the feature density selection criteria of the plurality of diverse recognition units; and configure the assigned recognition units to process their respective regions of interest, wherein the preprocessing unit, based on the feature density selection criteria, determines that an OCR unit is applicable to the text, and that other recognition units are applicable to aspects of the photographs and to logos.
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59. A device comprising:
at least one processor configured to execute; a plurality of diverse recognition units stored on at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, each recognition unit comprising at least one recognition algorithm and having feature density selection criteria; and a data preprocessing unit executed by at least one processor, the data preprocessing unit comprising an invariant feature identification algorithm and configured to; obtain a digital representation of a scene, the scene comprising one or more textual media; generate a set of invariant features by applying the invariant feature identification algorithm to the digital representation; cluster the set of invariant features into regions of interest in the digital representation of the scene, each region of interest having a region feature density; and classify, by a region classifier, at least one of the regions of interest according to object type as a function of attributes derived from the region feature density and the digital representation, wherein the at least one of the classified regions of interest corresponds to text; and use a classification result corresponding to the at least one of the regions of interest to classify another of the regions of interest according to object type, wherein the another of the regions of interest corresponds to a region of interest for images.
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