Method and apparatus for trajectory estimation, and method for segmentation

US8948448B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8948448-B2
Application numberUS-201113336330-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateDec 23, 2011
Priority dateMar 15, 2010
Publication dateFeb 3, 2015
Grant dateFeb 3, 2015

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A trajectory estimation apparatus includes: an image acceptance unit which accepts images that are temporally sequential and included in the video; a hierarchical subregion generating unit which generates subregions at hierarchical levels by performing hierarchical segmentation on each of the images accepted by the image acceptance unit such that, among subregions belonging to hierarchical levels different from each other, a spatially larger subregion includes spatially smaller subregions; and a representative trajectory estimation unit which estimates, as a representative trajectory, a trajectory, in the video, of a subregion included in a certain image, by searching for a subregion that is most similar to the subregion included in the certain image, across hierarchical levels in an image different from the certain image.

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What is claimed is: 1. A trajectory estimation method for estimating a trajectory of a subregion constituting all or part of a moving object in a video, said trajectory estimation method comprising: accepting images included in the video, the images being temporally sequential; generating subregions at hierarchical levels by performing hierarchical segmentation on each of the images accepted in said accepting such that a spatially larger subregion includes spatially smaller subr…

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What does patent US8948448B2 cover?
A trajectory estimation apparatus includes: an image acceptance unit which accepts images that are temporally sequential and included in the video; a hierarchical subregion generating unit which generates subregions at hierarchical levels by performing hierarchical segmentation on each of the images accepted by the image acceptance unit such that, among subregions belonging to hierarchical leve…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Iwasaki Masahiro, Nobori Kunio, Komoto Ayako, and 3 more
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Primary CPC classification G06T7/2006. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
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Publication date Tue Feb 03 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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