摘要 |
<p>The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for detecting and recognising an object in an image, the method comprising a plurality of stages, wherein at least one of the stages comprises an integrated approach of feature detection and object recognition of at least a part of the object. In a further embodiment at least one of the stages comprises identifying an image part that contains a feature point, and matching the image part to a set of hierarchies of templates, wherein a hierarchy comprises templates for an object to be recognised, a template describes at least a part of an object to be recognised, and a child template describes a sub-part of the part of the object described by its parent template.</p> |