Patent ID: 8655093
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for segmenting a plurality of images, comprising the steps of: generating a temporally stable depth map including one or more segments in accordance with an image; determining one or more temporally unstable residual pixels of one or more subsequent images; clustering one or more of the one or more temporally unstable residual pixels and one or more of the one or more segments in one or more of the one or more subsequent images in accordance with one or more common characteristics thereof; determining whether one or more differences between one or more of the one or more segments in the image and one or more corresponding segments included in one or more subsequent images is greater than a predetermined threshold; computing a disparity of one or more of the one or more segments in each of the one or more subsequent images where the differences were determined to be greater than the predetermined threshold; and combining the segments of the one or more subsequent images having their disparity recomputed with segments from the image having disparities included in the temporally stable depth map that are similar to the recomputed disparity, to segment the one or more subsequent images.