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Title: System and method for the detection of anomalies in an image

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1092896

Preferred aspects of the present invention can include receiving a digital image at a processor; segmenting the digital image into a hierarchy of feature layers comprising one or more fine-scale features defining a foreground object embedded in one or more coarser-scale features defining a background to the one or more fine-scale features in the segmentation hierarchy; detecting a first fine-scale foreground feature as an anomaly with respect to a first background feature within which it is embedded; and constructing an anomalous feature layer by synthesizing spatially contiguous anomalous fine-scale features. Additional preferred aspects of the present invention can include detecting non-pervasive changes between sets of images in response at least in part to one or more difference images between the sets of images.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
Assignee:
Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
Patent Number(s):
8,526,723
Application Number:
13/660,672
OSTI ID:
1092896
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Method and apparatus for data clustering including segmentation and boundary detection patent March 2008
Information processing device and information processing method, image processing device and image processing method, and computer program patent July 2012
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Merge and removal in a planar map of an image patent June 2012
Tiling and merging framework for segmenting large images patent December 2011
Vectorized image segmentation via trixel agglomeration patent October 2006
Planar map to process a raster image patent April 2011

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