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Human Body Parts Detection Methods using Texture Energy Measures and Candidate Masks of Body Parts
- Inventors
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Choi Byeong Cheol, Chung Byung Ho, Han Seung Wan, Lim Jae Deok
- Application No.
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12785806 (2010.05.24)
- Publication No.
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20110123076 (2011.05.26)
- Registration No.
- 8620091 (2013.12.31)
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Project Code
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09MS5400, Development of the Illegal and Objectionable Multimedia Contents Analysis and Filtering Technology,
Chung Byung Ho
- Abstract
- An apparatus for detecting specific human body parts in an image includes: a texture energy analysis unit for analyzing energy distribution in the image and generating texture energy maps; a candidate region-of-interest extraction unit for extracting candidate regions-of-interest for the specific body parts on a given texture energy map by applying a threshold to the given texture energy map, the given texture energy map being selected among the texture energy maps; a candidate mask application unit for performing convolution between candidate masks for the specific body parts and the candidate regions-of-interest and selecting candidate body parts based on results of the convolution; and a body part detection unit for detecting the specific body parts on the image by performing verification on the candidate body parts. The verification is performed by using machine-learning models for the specific body parts.