Patents
US 9317785 B1: Method and system for determining ethnicity category of facial images based on multi-level primary and auxiliary classifiers
- Granted
- 2016-04-19
- Filed
- 2014-04-21 application 14257816
- Type
- Utility · 14 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
The present invention is a system and method for performing ethnicity classification based on the facial images of people, using multi-category decomposition architecture of classifiers, which include a set of predefined auxiliary classifiers that are specialized to auxiliary features of the facial images. In the multi-category decomposition architecture, which is a hybrid multi-classifier architecture specialized to ethnicity classification, the task of learning the concept of ethnicity against significant within-class variations, is handled by decomposing the set of facial images into auxiliary demographics classes; the ethnicity classification is performed by an array of classifiers where each classifier, called an auxiliary class machine, is specialized to the given auxiliary class. The facial image data is annotated to assign the age and gender labels as well as the ethnicity labels. Each auxiliary class machine is trained to output both the given auxiliary class membership likelihood and the ethnicity likelihoods. Faces are detected from the input image, individually tracked, and fed to all the auxiliary class machines to compute the desired auxiliary class membership and ethnicity likelihood outputs. The outputs from all the auxiliary class machines are combined in a manner to make a final decision on the ethnicity of the given face.
Source: PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 (ipg160419.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoMining Corporation 54 patents | US company or organization | State College, PA | Videomining Corporation State business registration EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state VIDEOMINING CORP Form D issuer FUZZY medium confidence: same name (legal endings aside) and state | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hankyu Moon | Oak Park, CA | 38 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Rajeev Sharma | State College, PA | 83 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Namsoon Jung | State College, PA | 45 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 | |
| Joonhwa Shin | State College, PA | 15 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06V | Image or video recognition or understanding | G06V40/162 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06F | Electric digital data processing | G06F18/24 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
| G06T | Image data processing or generation, in general | G06T2207/30201 | PVGPATDIS, file of 2026-04-10 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
| Recorded | What | From | To | Reel/frame | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-05 | Release of security interest Release of security interest | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION signed 2023-09-26 VIDEOMINING, LLC signed 2023-09-26 | WHITE OAK YIELD SPECTRUM PARALELL FUND, LP SAN FRANCISCO, CA WHITE OAK YIELD SPECTRUM REVOLVER FUND SCSP SAN FRANCISCO, CA | 65156/157 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2023-09-08 | Release of security interest Release of security interest | ENTERPRISE BANK signed 2023-09-05 | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION STATE COLLEGE, PA VIDEOMINING, LLC FKA VMC ACQ., LLC STATE COLLEGE, PA | 64842/66 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2022-02-07 | Name change Change of name | VMC ACQ., LLC signed 2022-01-18 | VIDEOMINING, LLC STATE COLLEGE, PA | 58959/406 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2022-02-07 | Name change Change of name | VMC ACQ., LLC signed 2022-01-18 | VIDEOMINING, LLC STATE COLLEGE, PA | 58959/397 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2022-02-07 | Name change Change of name | VMC ACQ., LLC signed 2022-01-18 | VIDEOMINING, LLC STATE COLLEGE, PA | 58957/67 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2022-02-01 | Name change Change of name | VMC ACQ., LLC signed 2022-01-11 | VIDEOMINING, LLC STATE COLLEGE, PA | 58922/571 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2021-12-21 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION signed 2021-05-26 | VMC ACQ., LLC STATE COLLEGE, PA | 58552/34 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2021-12-20 | Security interest Security interest Security interest | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION signed 2021-12-10 VMC ACQ., LLC signed 2021-12-10 | ENTERPRISE BANK ALLISON PARK, PA | 58430/273 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2019-02-11 | Assignment Assignment of assignor's interest | JUNG, NAMSOON signed 2014-04-22 MOON, HANKYU signed 2014-04-22 SHARMA, RAJEEV signed 2014-04-22 SHIN, JOONHWA signed 2014-04-22 | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION STATE COLLEGE, PA | 48294/637 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
| 2017-08-03 | Security interest Security interest Security interest | VIDEOMINING CORPORATION signed 2017-07-27 | FEDERAL NATIONAL PAYABLES, INC. D/B/A/ FEDERAL NATIONAL COMMERCIAL CREDIT BETHESDA, MD | 43430/818 | ECORSEXC, file of 2026-09-25 |
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