Patent ID: 8494237
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for processing a three-dimensional digital image representation representative of a subject head shape having cranial deformities to generate a corresponding three-dimensional digital representation of a corresponding non-deformed modified head shape, comprising: providing a database library of a first plurality of first three-dimensional digital image representations of subject head shapes having cranial deformities captured directly from corresponding subjects, and a second plurality of second three-dimensional digital image representations of corresponding modified head shapes, each of said second three-dimensional digital image representations corresponding to one of said first three-dimensional digital image representations, each modified head shape corresponding to said subject head shape corrected for cranial deformities; providing a support vector machine; utilizing said database library plurality of said first and second three-dimensional digital image representations to train said support vector machine to operate on new three-dimensional digital image representations captured directly from new subjects and to compute for each new three-dimensional digital image representation a corresponding second three-dimensional digital representation of a corresponding modified head shape; receiving a new three-dimensional digital image representation of a head having cranial deformities captured from a new subject; operating said support vector machine such that said support vector machine operates on said new first three-dimensional digital image representation to generate a corresponding new three-dimensional second digital image representation of a modified head shape corresponding to said new first three-dimensional digital image representation and correcting for said cranial deformities.