MULTI-SCALE PYRAMID ARRANGEMENT FOR USE IN AN IMAGE SEGREGATION

摘要

Multiple sets include multiple scale-spaced pyramids representing each of the image and selected characteristics of the image relevant to the identification of the illumination and material aspects of the image.

主权项

1. An automated, computerized method for processing an image, comprising the steps of:
providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory; forming a set of scaled-spaced pyramid representations of the image file, the set of scaled-spaced pyramids including a scale-spaced pyramid representing the image and at least one image characteristic scale-spaced pyramid, the image characteristic scale-spaced pyramid representing a characteristic of the image relevant to a segregation of the image into intrinsic illumination and material reflectance components of the image; and performing an image segregation operation on the image of the image file as a function of the scale-spaced pyramids, to generate intrinsic images corresponding to the image.