Patent ID: 6801661
Filing Date: 2004-10-05
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A method for representing an image in terms of the shape properties of its identified segments of interest, said method comprising the steps of:(a) providing a digital image with identified segments of interest; (b) analyzing a segment of interest to identify one or more of its perceptually significant components, wherein perceptually insignificant components are removed from the segment of interest; (c) representing a perceptually significant component in terms of its shape properties, thereby providing a shape representation; (d) characterizing an image segment as a composition of the shape representations of its perceptually significant components, thereby providing a characterized image segment; and (e) repeating steps (b) to (d) to represent the image as a composition of its characterized segments; wherein step (b) includes removing perceptually insignificant components from the boundary model of the identified segments with a morphological filter.