Patent ID: 7324693
Filing Date: 2008-01-29
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A digital image processing method for automatically outlining a contour of the figure of a human body in a digital image, comprising the steps of: a) testing parameters of a region within the digital image according to a plurality of cascaded tests; b) determining whether the region contains characteristic features of the human body figure within the digital image; c) computing location parameters of the characteristic features in the region for the figure of a human body within the digital image, where the region is related to the human body figure; d) determining boundary parameters for the figure of a human body corresponding to the location parameters of the characteristic features in the region; e) computing an information map of the digital image; f) computing a set of indicative pixels for the contour of the figure of a human body; and g) automatically outlining the contour of the human body figure using the set of indicative pixels, the information map, and a contour outlining tool.