Geodesic image and video processing
US8437570B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 23, 2008 |
| Grant date | May 7, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 1, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30212
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of geodesic image and video processing is proposed. In an embodiment, the method uses a geodesic distance transform to construct an image filter. The filter can be used in a variety of image editing operations such as segmentation, denoising, texture smoothing, image stitching and cartooning. In one embodiment, the method may be made efficient by utilizing parallelism of the algorithm to carry out processing steps on at least two processing cores concurrently. This efficiency may enable high-resolution images and video to be processed at ‘real time’ rates without the need for specialist hardware.
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