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Method, apparatus, and program for human figure region extraction

US8023701B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Inventor

  • Yi Hu · Longbeilingcun, CN

Key dates

Filing dateJul 2, 2007
Grant dateSep 20, 2011
Priority date—
Expiry dateJul 1, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V40/165
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Upon extraction of a human figure region in an image, a face or facial part is detected in the image, and a candidate region that is deemed to include the human figure region is determined from position information of the detected face or facial part. Judgment is made as to whether each unit region having 2 pixels or more and comprising the candidate region represents the human figure region, and a set of the unit regions having been judged to represent the human figure region is determined as an estimated region which is estimated to include the human figure region. The human figure region is then extracted in the determined estimated region.

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