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Article: New York Inventors Develop Digital Color Image Sky Detection Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 6, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 6 -- Andrew C. Gallagher of Brockport, N.Y., Jiebo Luo of Pittsford, N.Y., and Wei Hao of Webster, N.Y., have developed a digital color image.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting sky in a digital color image having pixels is disclosed. The method includes identifying pixels from the digital color image representing an initial sky region; developing a model based on the identified sky pixels, wherein such model is a mathematical function that has inputs of pixel position and outputs of color; and using the model to operate on the digital color image to classify additional pixels not included in the initial sky region as sky." ...