摘要 |
A method for automatically locating instances of a target pattern in digital images, comprising the steps of: providing a digital image; detecting a first simple feature associated with the target patterns in the digital image; for each detected feature, searching, in its spatial neighborhood, a second or a plural of other features associated with the target patterns; for each pair of plural of features detected, checking the consistency of image intensity profile with the target pattern within the spatial neighborhood as delimited by the feature points detected in the searching and detecting steps; and labeling those image regions that are found to be consistent with the structure of the target pattern in the checking step.
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