Patent ID: 7031499
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for recognizing an object in an image, comprising: providing a plurality of gallery images, each gallery image including an identified object; pairing each gallery image with a probe image of an unidentified object to generate a plurality of pairs of images; applying a first set of template filters to the probe image of each pair to obtain a first feature value for each application of each template filter, and applying a second set of template filters to the each gallery image of each pair to obtain a second feature value for each application of each template filter; summing, for each application of each template filter, the first and second feature values; setting, for each application, a score to an acceptance weight if the sum is greater than a predetermined threshold, and otherwise setting the score to a rejection weight; summing the scores for all of the applications; and identifying the probe image with any gallery image when the score is greater than zero.