Patent 8345988 was granted and assigned to SRI International on January, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for recognizing an object, comprising providing a set of scene features from a scene, pruning a set of model features, generating a set of hypotheses associated with the pruned set of model features for the set of scene features, pruning the set of hypotheses, and verifying the set of pruned hypotheses is provided.