A face image quality assessment method includes acquiring a face image, and determining a similarity distribution distance of the face image, the similarity distribution distance including a distribution distance between an intra-person similarity distribution of the face image and an inter-person similarity distribution of the face image. The intra-person similarity distribution indicates a similarity distribution between the face image and a first-type image of a same person as the face image, and the inter-person similarity distribution indicates a similarity distribution between the face image and a second-type image of a different person from the face image. The method further includes determining image quality of the face image based on the similarity distribution distance of the face image.

An object detection method, for detecting a target object, comprising: capturing at least two detection portions with a first aspect ratio from an input image with a second aspect ratio; confirming whether any object is detected in each of the detection portions and obtaining corresponding boundary boxes for detected objects; and wherein the first aspect ratio is different to the second aspect ratio.

A method for recognizing an object in a video stream may include receiving a video stream from a video source, the video stream comprising a plurality of video frames. The method may also include selecting at least one video frame from the video frames according to a frame selection rate. The method may also include partitioning the selected video frame into a first plurality of image blocks. The method may also include recognizing, out of the first plurality of image blocks, a second plurality of image blocks which comprise an image of an object, the recognition being based on an image recognition parameter determined by a machine-learning algorithm. The method may also include determining that at least one of the second plurality of image blocks corresponds to the object based on a likelihood metric, the likelihood metric being determined by the processor based on at least the frame selection rate. The method may further include displaying, on a display, information identifying the object. A system and non-transitory computer-readable medium may also be provided.

A system and method for lateral vehicle detection is disclosed. A particular embodiment can be configured to: receive lateral image data from at least one laterally-facing camera associated with an autonomous vehicle; warp the lateral image data based on a line parallel to a side of the autonomous vehicle; perform object extraction on the warped lateral image data to identify extracted objects in the warped lateral image data; and apply bounding boxes around the extracted objects.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for identifying an item. The method includes: acquiring an item image of a to-be-identified item; setting initial position coordinates of the to-be-identified item on the item image; and executing following identifying: inputting the item image and the initial position coordinates into a pre-trained attention module to output an item feature of the to-be-identified item; inputting the item feature into a pre-trained long short-term memory network to output a predicted category and predicted position coordinates of the to-be-identified item; determining whether a preset condition is satisfied; and determining, in response to the preset condition being satisfied, a predicted category of the to-be-identified item outputted by the long short-term memory network a last time for use as a final category of the to-be-identified item.

Method, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that extracts one or more motion features from filtered position data associated with a projectile in a game and identifies a turning point in a trajectory of the projectile based on the one or more motion features. The technology may also automatically designate the turning point as a highlight moment if one or more of the turning point or the trajectory satisfies a proximity condition with respect to a target area in the game.

A set of POIs of a point cloud are received at a first filter, where each POI of the set of POIs comprises one or more points. Each POI of the set of POIs is filtered. A set of neighborhood points of a POI is selected. A metric for the set of neighborhood points is computed. Based on the metric, whether to accept the POI, modify the POI, reject the POI, or transmit the POI to a second filter, to extract at least one of range or velocity information related to the target is determined. Provided the POI is accepted or modified, the POI is transmitted to a filtered point cloud; provided the POI is rejected, the POI is prevented from reaching the filtered point cloud; provided the POI is not accepted, modified, or rejected, the POI is transmitted to a second filter.

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for determining a like grade and value or range of values for collectible cards. The system is configured to perform a method comprising: providing a graded card database comprising identifying attributes, physical characteristics, and grade information of each of graded cards, wherein the grade information comprises grade and corresponding grading entity of the graded cards; receiving at least one image of an object card; determining identifying attributes and physical characteristics of the object card based on the at least one image; selecting, from the graded card database, a comparison group including potentially a plurality of comparison cards based on the identifying attribute of the object card; determining a similarity between the object card and each comparison card based on the physical characteristic; and determining a likely grade for the object card based on the similarity. A card value database with information of traded card may be additionally provided and a likely value or range of values may be determined.

An image processing apparatus includes: an intermediate acquisition unit that acquires feature amount maps representing a feature of an image; a preprocessing unit that performs a weighting calculation regarding a pixel value on each of the acquired feature amount maps and calculates a statistical value of the weighted pixel value for each of the feature amount maps; an attention weight prediction unit that predicts an attention weight indicating an importance level of each for the feature amount maps from the statistical value of the pixel value corresponding to each of the feature amount maps; and an attention weighting unit that performs weighting on each of the acquired feature amount maps by using the attention weight.

An apparatus for determining a speed of a vehicle along a road by processing a first image and a second image of the road captured by a camera on the vehicle and comprising respective road marker images of a road marker, the apparatus arranged to: determine a location of the road marker in the first image; predict a location of the road marker in the second image based on the determined location, an estimate of the vehicle speed, and a time period between capture of the images; detect the road marker in a portion of the second image at the predicted location; estimate a distance moved by the vehicle during the time period based on the determined location, and a location of the detected road marker in the portion of the second image; and calculate the speed based on the estimated distance and the time period.