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US 12,236,713 · App. 18/713,653 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

System and method for identifying a person in a video

Inventors: David Mendlovic (Tel Aviv, IL); Dan Raviv (Tel Aviv, IL); Lior Gelberg (Tel Aviv, IL); Khen Cohen (Tel Aviv, IL); Mor-Avi Azulay (Tel Aviv, IL); Menahem Koren (Tel Aviv, IL)
Assignee: Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd.
G06V40/176G06V10/82G06V20/41G06V40/161G06V40/171
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Patent No.
US 12,236,713
App. No.
18/713,653
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer readable media for identifying a person in a video are disclosed. Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory computer readable media may include at least one processor that may be configured to generate a spatiotemporal emotion data compendium (STEM-DC) from the video and to process the STEM-DC using a deep fully adaptive graph convolutional network (FAGC) to determine a first person representation vector that represents the person in the video.

Claims (13)

1. A system for identifying a person in a video, comprising:

a computing device configured to generate a spatiotemporal emotion data compendium (STEM-DC) from the video; and to process the STEM-DC using a deep fully adaptive graph convolutional network (FAGC) to determine a first person representation vector that represents the person in the video,

wherein the generating the STEM-DC includes generating an iterated feature vector (IFV), and wherein the generating the IFV includes iterating a series of landmark feature vectors weighted by functions of transition probabilities between basic emotional states of the person detected in subsequent frames of the video.

2. The system of claim 1 , further configured to compare the first person representation vector with a subsequent second person representation vector determined from a subsequent video and subsequent STEM-DC, to thereby identify the person as appearing in the subsequent video when the first and second person representation vectors are substantially similar.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the first and second person representation vectors are based on an identifiable trait of the person in the video.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the identifiable trait includes at least one of face, emotion, gait, body, limb, or typing style.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the functions of transition probabilities are represented by a transition weight sum matrix.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the basic emotional states is determined by projecting an emotion feature vector onto a series of emotion basis vectors.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the series of landmark feature vectors for a given facial image includes L landmarks characterized by P features.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the series of landmark feature vectors is determined by processing facial images extracted from the video using a pretrained facial landmark extraction net (FLEN), to identify the L facial landmarks each characterized by P features.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the facial images from the video are extracted by locating and rectifying images of a person's face located in the video.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the FAGC includes a feature extraction module and a data merging module that includes a plurality of convolution blocks.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein a resolution of the basic emotional states is increased for a video having a higher frame rate.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 9, 2024
From: MENDLOVIC, DAVID; RAVIV, DAN; GELBERG, LIOR; COHEN, KHEN; AZULAY, MOR-AVI; KOREN, MENAHEM
To: RAMOT AT TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY LTD.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 63284643 · Dec 1, 2021
Related Publication 20240420504A1 · Dec 19, 2024
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