A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to determine a foreground value (F) and opacity value (a) for each pixel on the set wherein a is determined via a subpixel edge-offset to facilitate a separation the foreground region from background portions of the image. The foreground value (F) and opacity value (a) are then employed to smoothly mix the foregroun...

A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to determine a foreground value (F) and opacity value (.alpha.) for each pixel on the set wherein .alpha. is determined via a subpixel edge-offset to facilitate a separation the foreground region from background portions of the image. The foreground value (F) and opacity value (.alpha.) are then employed to smoothly...

A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to determine a foreground value (F) and opacity value (.alpha.) for each pixel on the set wherein .alpha.is determined via a subpixel edge-offset to facilitate a separation the foreground region from background portions of the image. The foreground value (F) and opacity value (.alpha.) are then employed to smoothly ...

Artifacts are detected in a cyclopean virtual image generated from stereo images. A disparity map is generated from the stereo images. Individual projected images are determined based on the disparity map and the corresponding stereo images. A difference map is computed between the individual projected images to indicate the artifacts. A source patch in the virtual image is defined relative to an artifact. A replacement target patch is generated using a split-patch search technique as a composit...

Artifacts are detected in a cyclopean virtual image generated from stereo images. A disparity map is generated from the stereo images. Individual projected images are determined based on the disparity map and the corresponding stereo images. A difference map is computed between the individual projected images to indicate the artifacts. A source patch in the virtual image is defined relative to an artifact. A replacement target patch is generated using a split-patch search technique as a composit...

A roller for use in a coating machine comprises a metal core 1 having a dielectric cover 2. The cover is provided with an engraved pattern of ridges and grooves. The core is also provided with a pattern in register with the pattern in the cover such that an electrostatic field generated above a web supported on the roller may be made substantially uniform.

The present invention involves a new system and method for probabilistic exemplar-based tracking of patterns or objects. Tracking is accomplished by first extracting a set of exemplars from training data. The exemplars are then clustered using conventional statistical techniques. Such clustering techniques include k-medoids clustering which is based on a distance function for determining the distance or similarity between the exemplars. A dimensionality for each exemplar cluster is then estimate...

A system is provided for selecting a foreground region of an image, given a set of pixels defining the boundary of the foreground region of the image. The system includes a component to dilate the pixel set and a component to determine a foreground value (F) and to determine an opacity value (a) based on estimated foreground and background values for each pixel of the dilated set to facilitate a separation of the region from background portions of the image.

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture altering a displayed image presented to a user on a viewing device using a user-controlled orientation of the viewing device to determine how the displayed image is to be presented. The viewing device includes a plurality of tilt sensors that are used to determine the orientation of the viewing device. As the user moves the orientation of the viewing device, the tilt sensors detect the change in the device orientation. These changes in orientation ...

The present invention involves a new system and method for probabilistic exemplar-based tracking of patterns or objects. Tracking is accomplished by first extracting a set of exemplars from training data. The exemplars are then clustered using conventional statistical techniques. Such clustering techniques include k-medoids clustering which is based on a distance function for determining the distance or similarity between the exemplars. A dimensionality for each exemplar cluster is then estimate...