Patent Document ID: 20070189627
Application ID: 11353799
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A process for enhancing the appearance of a face in an image in an image sequence, comprising the process actions of: (a) identifying facial components in an initial image frame of the image sequence and determining local color models for each of these facial components; (b) inputting a subsequent image frame of the image sequence as the current image frame; (c) locating face and eye locations in the current image frame; (d) classifying pixels of the face into different facial components using the local color models and the face and eye locations to produce an initial classification map for the current image frame; (e) temporally smoothing the pixels of the initial classification map of the current image frame using a final classification map of the immediately previous image frame of the image sequence to create a final classification map of the current image frame; and (f) applying cosmetic filters to facial components defined in the final classification map of the current image frame to produce an enhanced image of the face.