Patent ID: 8885887

Claim:
A system for stabilizing, detecting, and recognizing objects in video captured from a mobile platform, comprising: one or more processors and a memory, the memory having instructions encoded thereon such that upon execution of the instructions, the one or more processors perform operations of: receiving a video captured from a mobile platform, the video having a plurality of image frames; stabilizing the video by registering the image frames to a global coordinate system to generate stabilized image frames; applying a bio-inspired attention algorithm to the stabilized image frames to produce a set of locations in the stabilized image frames that are salient points representative of an object of interest; generating an image chip that surrounds each salient point; extracting high-dimensional feature vectors from the image chip; and classifying the feature vectors as an object class, whereby through classifying the feature vectors, an object of interest can be identified in the video as captured from the mobile platform.