An apparatus for and a method of object recognition in images and sequences of images by producing enhancements of an input digital image using digital image processing, detecting objects in the enhanced images using a detector that can determine locations of objects, consolidating detected object locations using heuristic methods, validating whether or not a detected object is an object using a classifier, and recognising using the input image and the location of a validated detected object the category and/or the category probability measure of the object. For sequence of images, an apparatus for and a method of recognizing objects in sequence of images, by further assigning a detected object an owner entity, detecting and correcting a category misclassification in sequences of three or more images comprising object classification categories of same owner entity. The invention is applied to human facial emotion recognition in images and sequence of images.
BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION