Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing System, Image Processing Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Storing Image Processing Program Therein

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Sept. 2 -- NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, Japan has been assigned a patent (No. US 12406380 B2, initially filed March 12, 2020) developed by Takashi Shibata, Tokyo, Japan, and Takuya Ogawa, Tokyo, Japan, for "Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing image processing program therein."

According to the present disclosure, it is an object to provide, in particular, an image processing apparatus, an image processing system, an image processing method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an image processing program therein, capable of tracking an object in a video with high accuracy. An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: image feature calculation means for outputting an image feature of an object using a time-series image of the object; object identification means for outputting an identification result obtained by identifying an object using the image feature and a tracking result of the object; kinetic model selection means for selecting an appropriate kinetic model from a plurality of kinetic models based on the identification result and the tracking result; and object tracking means for tracking the object in time series and calculating the tracking result, from the identified object.

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