AUTOMATED METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROBUST IMAGE OBJECT RECOGNITION AND/OR CLASSIFICATION USING MULTIPLE TEMPORAL VIEWS

摘要

An automated method for classifying an object in a sequence of video frames. The object is tracked (122) in multiple frames of the sequence of video frame, and feature descriptors (106) are determined (124) for the object for each of the multiple frames. Multiple classification scores (108) are computed (126) by matching said feature descriptors for the object for each of the multiple frames with feature descriptors for a candidate class in a classification database (127). Said multiple classification scores (108) are aggregated (128) to generate an estimated probability that the object is a member of the candidate class. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.