Visual saliency estimation for images and video

F Perazzi, A Hornung, P Krähenbühl… - US Patent 9,025,880, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Saliency estimation has become a valuable tool in image processing
wherein image regions of attention, by a human observer, are defined by a mask, which is …

Image segmentation using color and depth information

G Somanath - US Patent 9,547,907, 2017 - Google Patents
Image segmentation utilizing 3D image data. A plurality of pixels of an image frame may be
segmented based at least on a function of pixel color and a pixel depth over the spatial …

Method and apparatus for object tracking and segmentation via background tracking

TE Crivelli, JMP RUA, P Perez - US Patent 10,249,046, 2019 - Google Patents
US10249046B2 - Method and apparatus for object tracking and segmentation via
background tracking - Google Patents US10249046B2 - Method and apparatus for object …

Method and apparatus for generating superpixel clusters

D Gandolph, W Putzke-Roeming… - US Patent 9,971,951, 2018 - Google Patents
Method and apparatus for generating superpixel clusters A method and an apparatus (20)
for generating a superpixel cluster for an image are described. A clustering unit (23) …

Method for superpixel life cycle management

R Matthias, J Jachalsky, B Rosenhahn - US Patent 9,349,194, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method and an apparatus for life cycle management for Superpixels
associated to frames of a sequence of frames are described. An area occupied by a …

Method for superpixel life cycle management

R Matthias, J Jachalsky, B Rosenhahn - US Patent 9,105,109, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method and an apparatus for life cycle management for Superpixels
associated to frames of a sequence of frames are described. An area occupied by a …

Fast, progressive approach to supervoxel-based spatial temporal video segmentation

X Xu, A Nakamura - US Patent 10,304,192, 2019 - Google Patents
The two-step architecture of the supervoxel-based spatial temporal video segmentation
method ensures speed and scalability. The computationally intensive first step uses a highly …

Method and apparatus for generating temporally consistent superpixels

J Jachalsky, K Mittal - US Patent 9,646,386, 2017 - Google Patents
This application claims the benefit, under 35 USC S365 of International Application
PCT/EP2014/066631, filed Aug. 1, 2014, which was published in accordance with PCT …

Method and apparatus for generating superpixels for multi-view images

D Gandolph, W Putzke-Roeming… - US Patent App. 14 …, 2016 - Google Patents
A method and an apparatus for generating temporally and multi-view consistent superpixels
for a sequence of multi-view images. A sequence generator generates an ordered sequence …