Image recognition device and method for recognizing images
View Patent ↗A method for detecting and recognizing objects in images includes obtaining a video stream and pre-processing the video stream to obtain an image queue arranged in a frame playing order and storing the image queue into a storage device. An image frame of the image queue from the storage device is read and at least one object in the image frame is detected and recognized. An image recognition device is also provided.
1. An image recognition method operable in an image recognition device, the image recognition device comprising a first processing module, a second processing module, and a storage device, the image recognition method comprising:
obtaining a video stream and pre-processing the video stream to obtain an image queue arranged in a frame playing order, by the first processing module;
storing the image queue into the storage device, by the first processing module; and
reading an image frame of the image queue from the storage device and recognizing the image frame to detect at least one object in the image frame, by the second processing module;
wherein the second processing module reads the image frame one by one in sequence according to a frame order of the image queue, the second processing module comprises a plurality of threads and a plurality of processing units, each of the plurality of threads corresponds to one of the plurality of processing units, the method of reading the image frame of the image queue from the storage device and recognizing the image frame to detect the at least one object in the image frame by the second processing module comprises:
controlling the thread to read one image frame of the image queue from the storage device and transmitting the image frame to the corresponding processing unit; and
recognizing the image frame to detect the at least one object in the image frame, by the corresponding processing unit.
2. The image recognition method of claim 1 , wherein the method of obtaining the video stream by the first processing module comprises:
obtaining the video stream from the storage device, by the first processing module.
3. The image recognition method of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of processing units comprises one or more image recognition models, each of the image recognition models is configured to recognize a type of object.
4. The image recognition method of claim 1 , wherein the block method of recognizing the image frame to detect the at least one object in the image frame by the second processing module comprises:
recognizing the image frame to obtain category information of the at least one object, by the second processing module; and
saving the category information as a label of the at least one object into the image frame.
5. The image recognition method of claim 1 , wherein the method of recognizing the image frame to detect the at least one object by the second processing module:
adjusting image parameters of the image frame and recognizing an adjusted image frame to detect the at least one object, by the second processing module;
wherein the image parameters comprise a pixel parameter and a brightness parameter.
6. An image recognition device comprising:
a storage device;
a first processing module obtaining a video stream and pre-processing the video stream to obtain an image queue arranged in a frame playing order;
the first processing module further storing the image queue into the storage device; and
a second processing module reading an image frame of the image queue from the storage device and recognizing the image frame to detect at least one object in the image frame;
wherein the second processing module reads the image frame one by one in sequence according to a frame order of the image queue, the second processing module comprises a plurality of threads and a plurality of processing units, each of the plurality of threads corresponds to one of the plurality of processing units, each of the plurality of threads is configured to read one image frame of the image queue from the storage device and transmit the image frame to the corresponding processing unit to detect the at least one object.
7. The image recognition device of claim 6 , wherein the first processing module obtains the video stream from the storage device.
8. The image recognition device of claim 6 , wherein each of the plurality of processing units comprises one or more image recognition models, each of the image recognition models is configured to recognize a type of object.
9. The image recognition device of claim 6 , wherein the second processing module recognizes the image frame to obtain category information of the at least one object and saves the category information as a label of the at least one object into the image frame.
10. The image recognition device of claim 6 , wherein the second processing module further adjusts image parameters of the image frame and recognizes an adjusted image frame to detect the at least one object.
11. The image recognition device of claim 6 , wherein the image parameters comprise a pixel parameter and a brightness parameter.