WO2005050542A1 - System and method for extracting a face from a camera picture for representation in an electronic system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates generally to computer vision technology for recognizing images, and more particularly, to computer vision technology that extracts an image, such as a person's face, from a picture, for representation in an electronic system.
- an image such as a person's face
- people are/will be able to meet each other online, in a so-called "virtual space" and, in order to identify themselves in this virtual space, they need to be represented by a personal icon.
- a virtual space may be realized by any P2P system (e.g., global networking).
- a display could show a map of all rooms including pictures, i.e., iconic representations, of the persons who are currently in each room.
- Face recognition systems may be employed for determining faces in an image.
- a representative face recognition system is described in U.S. Patent No. 6,108,437 which is directed to a feature extraction system that processes an image for determining whether a face is present in an image and for determining its position in the image.
- One application of a face recognition system is described in U.S. Patent No. 5,781,650 which is directed to a system for determine facial features from an extracted image in order to classify a person's age from his/her image.
- the prior art computer vision systems are thus deficient in that none of these systems is used to capture and process an image of a person in order to use it to represent the person in another system, e.g., a PCC or, like system requiring interfacing of humans and machines.
- a computer vision system that aims to present an image of a face as representation of a person's identity in an organization or system.
- the computer vision system and method addresses the timing/selection of a desired image.
- an image may be selected in which the subject person is gazing at the camera, or in which the person is smiling, etc.
- a computer vision system and methodology is provided that implements includes face recognition for capturing a picture of the person that needs to be represented in another electronic system that uses or presents images, for example, and to extract or 'cut out' the face from that picture.
- the system and method is further able to take the snapshot on the moment that the person is gazing straight towards the camera or even at the moment that a person's facial appearance is in a desired state, e.g., is smiling, and render the extracted image suitable for representation in another electronic system.
- the inventive system addresses the timing/selection of a desired image to be extracted.
- Figure 1 illustrates a schematic view of an embodiment of an apparatus for detecting and extracting an image from a video camera output (digital stream);
- Figure 2 illustrates one application for using an extracted portrait of a person for identifying that person as an icon in a personal content container device connectable via a WiFi network. The most natural way of representing a person is by a picture of the person's face.
- a first step is processing of an image to check for the presence of a face (using facial features).
- a camera device 15 adapted to generate still image or full-motion video images generates, respectively, a first real- world image 12 or series of images (an image sequence), e.g., of a person or group of people, for example.
- This image may be digitized and converted to a digital stream 18 for input into a image recognition processor or like device 20, for example, which may apply facial recognition to capture a snapshot 22 of the target person's face from the first (larger) image before extracting it.
- a image recognition processor or like device 20 may apply facial recognition to capture a snapshot 22 of the target person's face from the first (larger) image before extracting it.
- the digital stream of the image or image sequence may be parsed for detecting in the datastream various sub-strings which may comply with certain substring characteristics, viz., the characteristics of a human face. Then, computer vision techniques are utilized to "cut out" the face from a possible larger picture.
- the camera device 15 and image processor 20 may be separate devices or embodied as a single stand-alone unit.
- a time of the taking and receipt of the still image/video image may be programmed, and determinable by computer vision, such as at the moment when a person is smiling or when gazing towards the camera device. That is, the image sequence may extract the snapshot of the target person's face 22a when the face in the image is smiling or fully faces the camera. Then, the extracted image 22a is stored in a memory storage system or database 25, comprising non- volatile (or volatile) memory storage media. The extracted image may be stored together with contextual data/meta data such as time, place, camera, and if known that person's "personID".
- the stored image 22a and associated contextual/meta data may be subsequently (or immediately) imported to or retrieved from the same system or second distinct system 30 executing any application requiring visual identification of the person.
- the stored image 22a may be displayed as an icon 22b on a screen display 45 of an electronic system 30, e.g., a mobile telephone 50.
- the extracted image may be printed on paper in a later processing stage.
- the above-described principle may be applied in various camera/computer vision systems: 1) a smart security camera that is adapted to create a logging list of 'portrait photos' of people entering or leaving a particular building; 2) a portable "infotainment" (content used for information or entertainment) players such as the Portable Content Container (PCC) may support use of user icons in an ad-hoc sharing situation; 3) a PC or TV camera could be adapted to use the extracted image to create user icons that could be used to represent a particular person; e.g., representation in virtual community spaces (with advantageously, the feature that the extracted photo is up-to-date); 4) a PC, TV or bathroom mirror display system may be adapted to include an integrated camera that makes a daily snapshot of the person's face.
- PCC Portable Content Container
- a camera-equipped mobile phone may be used to quickly make a snapshot and to use this picture as a representation of the person's telephone number (caller ID, address book etc). The picture would pop up if this person calls the user's phone, for instance; and 6) a camera at the entrance of a building or a reception may make snapshots of people entering so that these could be used to instantly create a visitor's badge using a camera and computer vision at the entrance/reception of a company building.
- a 'face scanning system' may be employed to continuously scan faces of people entering to see if they are new, or make a snapshot on explicit request.
- An additional feature may include the employment of the system programmed to frequently capture portrait pictures of a person so that a face recognition system may be kept up-to-date and to gradually adapt the recognition pattern to be able to recognize a person over a long time.
- the invention may facilitate and render possible the maintenance of an electronic photo frame of a target user that may be frequently updated (e.g., daily) with a recent picture of the target user.
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