Patent Document ID: 20120070074
Application ID: 13228509
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for training a landmark detector, comprising: receiving training data including a plurality of training bags including: a plurality of positive training bags, each including a plurality of positively annotated instances; and a plurality of negative training bags, each including at least one negatively annotated instance; initializing a classification function by training a first weak classifier based on the positive training bags and the negative training bags; evaluating all training instances using the classification function; for each of a plurality of remaining weak classifiers: calculating a cost value gradient based on spatial context information of each instance in each positive bag evaluated by the classification function; calculating a gradient value associated with each weak classifier based on the cost value gradients; selecting a weak classifier of the plurality of remaining weak classifiers having a lowest associated gradient value; determining a weighting parameter associated with the selected weak classifier; and adding the selected weak classifier to the classification function.