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Washington (October, 2006) /PRNewswire/ - "Growth and Disparity: A Decade of U.S. Public School Construction 1995-2004," is a new study that finds that the nation's school districts spent more than $300 billion for hard bricks and mortar costs to build and renovate schools, but when counting all costs related to constructionland, fees, furnishings and interest paymentsthe total for school construction approached $600 billion.
But despite this massive investment in public infrastructure, many of the nation's children are still in crowded and substandard buildings. This report shows that the schools with the greatest need, primarily those in high-poverty and predominantly minority school districts, have seen the least investment. Further, the money spent on schools in low-income communities was more likely to go to basic health and safety needs such as asbestos removal or roof replacement rather than educational enhancements.
The study is the first to assess the nation's progress in improving public school buildings since the troubling findings in the General Accounting Office's 1995 report, "The Condition of America's Schools." The new Growth and Disparity report, by the Building Educational Success Together (BEST) partnership includes state-by-state information on school construction spending from 1995-2004.
BEST concludes that quality school facilities need to be integrated into education policy at the federal, state and local levels. The No Child Left Behind Act, which is silent on school facilities, should identify the quality of school buildings as a critical factor in closing the achievement gap. Greater attention needs to be paid to what is happening and who is benefiting from massive school construction spending.
Data was analyzed by BEST, which is made up of national and local organizations working to improve public education and communities. The BEST partners are: 21st Century School Fund (Washington); Education Law Center (Newark, NJ); KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Cincinnati); National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (Washington); National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington); Neighborhood Capital Budget Group (Chicago); New Visions for Public Schools (New York); and the Center for Cities and Schools (University of California - Berkeley, CA).
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The detection of red-eye defects is enhanced in digital images for embedded image acquisition and processing systems. A two-stage redeye filtering system includes a speed optimized filter that performs initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions and optionally applies a speed-optimized set of falsing/verification filters to determine a first set of confirmed redeye regions for correction. Some of the candidate regions which are rejected during the first stage are recorded and re-analyzed during a second stage by an alternative set of analysis-optimized filters to determine a second set of confirmed redeye regions.
1. A method of processing a digital image comprising: using a processor;
obtaining candidate face regions of an acquired digital image;
filtering the candidate face regions with a first speed optimized filter to produce a first set of candidate red-eye regions;
encoding at least a portion of the acquired digital image; and
storing the encoded portion of the acquired digital image in association with said first set of candidate red-eye regions for later image processing of said encoded image,
wherein the first speed optimized filter is applied upon image acquisition, and a second analysis-optimized filter is applied in a background or playback mode or both.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
5. A system for processing a digital image, comprising:
(a) an image acquisition subsystem;
(b) a face detector for obtaining candidate face regions of an acquired digital image;
(c) a speed optimized filter for filtering the candidate face regions to produce a first set of candidate red-eye regions;
(d) a processor for encoding at least a portion of the acquired digital image;
(e) a storage device for storing therein the encoded portion of the acquired digital image in association with said first set of candidate red-eye regions for later image processing of said encoded image; and
(f) an analysis optimized filter for filtering the candidate red-eye regions in a background or playback mode or both,
(g) wherein the speed optimized filter is applied upon image acquisition.
6. The system of
7. The system of
8. One or more non-transitory, processor-readable media having code embedded therein for programming one or more processors to perform a method of processing a digital image, wherein the method comprises:
obtaining candidate face regions of an acquired digital image;
filtering the candidate face regions with a first speed optimized filter to produce a first set of candidate red-eye regions;
encoding at least a portion of the acquired digital image; and
storing the encoded portion of the acquired digital image in association with said first set of candidate red-eye regions for later image processing of said encoded image,
wherein the first speed optimized filter is applied upon image acquisition, and a second analysis-optimized filter is applied in a background or playback mode or both.
9. The one or more non-transitory, processor-readable media of
10. The one or more non-transitory, processor-readable media of
11. The one or more non-transitory, processor-readable media of
This application is a divisional application that claims the benefit of priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/042,335, filed Mar. 5, 2008, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,970,182; which claims the benefit of priority to U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/892,884, filed Mar. 5, 2007; which is incorporated by reference, and is also a Continuation-in-Part (CIP) of U.S. patent applications Nos. 11/462,035, filed Aug. 2, 2006, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,920,723; and Ser. No. 11/282,954, filed Nov. 18, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,689,009; which are incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to digital image processing, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for detection and correction of red-eye defects and other artifacts in an acquired digital image.
Redeye is the appearance of an unnatural reddish coloration of the pupils of a person appearing in an image captured by a camera with flash illumination. Redeye is caused by light from the flash reflecting off blood vessels in the person's retina and returning to the camera.
A large number of image processing techniques have been proposed to detect and correct redeye in color images. In general, these techniques typically are semi-automatic or automatic. Semi-automatic redeye detection techniques rely on human input. For example, in some semi-automatic redeye reduction systems, a user must manually identify to the system the areas of an image containing redeye before the defects can be corrected.
Many automatic redeye reduction systems rely on a preliminary face detection step before redeye areas are detected. A common automatic approach involves detecting faces in an image and, subsequently, detecting eyes within each detected face. After the eyes are located, redeye is identified based on shape, coloration, and brightness of image areas corresponding to the detected eye locations. In general, face-detection-based automatic redeye reduction techniques have high computation and memory resource requirements. In addition, most of the face detection algorithms are only able to detect faces that are oriented in an upright frontal view; these approaches cannot detect faces that are rotated in-plane or out-of-plane with respect to the image plane.
A typical prior art redeye filter process is illustrated in
Exemplary prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 6,407,777 to DeLuca which discloses in-camera detection and correction of redeye pixels in an acquired digital image; U.S. patent application 2002/0176623 to Steinberg which discloses automated real-time detection and correction of redeye defects optimized for handheld devices; U.S. patent applications 2005/0047655 and 2005/0047656 to Luo et al which disclose detecting and correcting redeye in a digital image and in embedded systems respectively.
Now it is well known that within an image acquisition subsystem such as is embodied in typical digital cameras, the peak computing load and resource requirements occur around the time of image acquisition. Upon receiving an image acquisition request from the user the main embedded processing system must refine the image focus and exposure to achieve an optimal main acquired image; this image, in turn, must be off-loaded from the main optical sensor of the camera and subjected to further image processing to convert it from its raw format (e.g. Bayer) to a conventional color space such as RGB or YCC. Finally the acquired image must be compressed prior to saving it on a removable storage medium such as a compact flash or multimedia card.
The time taken by the camera to recover from the acquisition of a first image and reinitialize itself to capture a second image is known in the industry as the "click-to-click" time. As this is one of the most important parameters for the comparison and marketing of modern digital cameras it vital for manufacturers to minimize said "click-to-click" time. Thus any additional image processing, such as redeye filtering, which is to be added to the main image acquisition chain should be highly optimized for speed of execution in order to minimize its impact on the click-to-click time of the main system.
Evidently such a redeye filter must compromise its overall performance in terms of accuracy of detection of redeye defects and quality of image correction. An alternative would be to wait until after the main image has been acquired and perform the redeye filtering at a later time when the camera may execute the filter as a background process, or to perform the redeye filtering off-camera on a desktop PC or printer.
However there are some drawbacks to this approach. Firstly, images will be displayed on the acquiring device, immediately after acquisition, with uncorrected redeye defects; and, when images are accessed in playback mode, there will be a further delay while images are post-processed before an image can be displayed. Both drawbacks would create a negative impression on end users.
Further, as practically all digital cameras store images using lossy compression techniques there are additional disadvantages with respect to image quality as images must be decompressed and recompressed in order to perform the redeye detection and correction processes in playback or background modes. Such loss of image quality may not become apparent until later when a user wishes to print an image and it is too late to reverse the process.
If redeye processing is delayed until the images are loaded onto another device, such as a desktop PC or printer there are further disadvantages. Firstly, important meta-data relating to the acquiring device and its state at the time the image was acquired may not be available to the redeye filter process. A second disadvantage is that this post-processing device must perform redeye filtering on the entire image; where this is an embedded device such as a printer it may, itself, be relatively constrained in terms of CPU cycles and processing resources for its primary post-processing activity and it may be desirable to optimize the performance of the full redeye filter.
The detection of red-eye defects is enhanced in digital images for embedded image acquisition and processing systems. A two-stage redeye filtering process is provided whereby a speed optimized filter performs the initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions and optionally applies a speed-optimized set of falsing/verification filters to determine a first set of confirmed redeye regions for correction. Some of the candidate regions which are rejected during the first stage are recorded and re-analyzed during a second stage by an alternative set of analysis-optimized filters to determine a second set of confirmed redeye regions.
In another embodiment, the first set of confirmed redeye regions may be passed through the stage-two analysis-optimized filters.
In another embodiment the second stage filter may incorporate an enhanced correction filter which may be optionally applied to the first set of confirmed redeye regions.
A two-stage redeye filter is implemented wherein a first redeye filter process, which is optimized for speed is combined with a second redeye process which is optimized for accurate image analysis. Thus the advantages of a redeye filter implemented within the main image acquisition chain are combined with those of a redeye filter implemented in background/playback mode and the disadvantages of these two approaches are mostly eliminated.
For slow platforms (like Fujitsu for Samsung), in playback mode, a "RE lib" is called after, and preferably immediately after, an image is displayed on the screen (e.g., without waiting for the user's command). The camera is capable of multi-tasking and/or can quickly abandon a background task when there is a need to do something else. This gives a user an instantaneous or real-time result when the RE function is executed. The presence of RE may be provided in a picture, e.g., in a flashing region.
A further technique is provided for processing a digital image. Candidate face regions are obtained of an acquired digital image. The candidate face regions are filtered with a first speed optimized filter to produce a first set of candidate red-eye regions. At least a portion of the acquired digital image is encoded. The encoded portion of the acquired digital image is stored in association with said first set of candidate red-eye regions for later image processing of said encoded image.
A speed-optimized set of one or more falsing/verification filters may also be applied. The first set of candidate redeye regions may be passed through an analysis-optimized filter. Candidate face regions rejected by the filtering may be passed through an analysis-optimized filter sometime after the filtering, encoding and storing, such that one or more may be determined as candidate red-eye regions. The first speed optimized filter may be applied upon image acquisition, and the analysis-optimized filter may be applied in a background or playback mode or both.
This is applicable to more complex processes such as Golden Eye removal (e.g., a "two stage" process may be removing red-eye in real time and Golden Eye in the background. A two-stage process may include a fast filter during an acquisition chain and a slower, analysis optimized filter applied afterwards, when the camera is idling, or even on a secondary device. This helps particularly slow machines, and can also be not only predictive for playback but also a background process when a camera is not taking pictures in general. There can be an icon that shows that Red Eye was performed and/or a flashing region on a display.
The detection of red-eye defects is enhanced in digital images for embedded image acquisition and processing systems. A two-stage redeye filtering process is provided whereby a speed optimized filter performs the initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions and optionally applies a speed-optimized set of falsing/verification filters to determine a first set of confirmed redeye regions for correction. Some of the candidate regions which are rejected during the first stage are recorded and re-analyzed during a second stage by an alternative set of analysis-optimized filters to determine a second set of confirmed redeye regions.
In another embodiment, the first set of confirmed redeye regions may be passed through the stage-two analysis-optimized filters.
In another embodiment the second stage filter may incorporate an enhanced correction filter which may be optionally applied to the first set of confirmed redeye regions.
A two-stage redeye filter is implemented wherein a first redeye filter process, which is optimized for speed is combined with a second redeye process which is optimized for accurate image analysis. Thus the advantages of a redeye filter implemented within the main image acquisition chain are combined with those of a redeye filter implemented in background/playback mode and the disadvantages of these two approaches are mostly eliminated.
One generalized embodiment is illustrated in
Thus, in this embodiment the falsing & verification filters 106 generates a set of secondary candidate regions 109 in addition to the set of confirmed redeye regions 108. The set of secondary candidate regions may include members of the original candidate region set 104, which could be neither confirmed nor eliminated by the speed optimized redeye detection process 100. It may also include combined candidate regions in close proximity to each other.
This set of candidate regions 109 is saved either in a RAM buffer, or in non-volatile memory depending on the implementation of the embodiment. Where the data is saved in RAM (or volatile) memory, the image acquisition system must apply the second stage redeye filter to the image prior to powering down. The preferred form of storage is in non-volatile memory, or on a removable media card. In other embodiments this data may be stored in the image header with the part-processed image itself.
In this embodiment, a second stage, analysis optimised redeye filter 101 is next applied to the secondary set of candidate regions 109. During the analysis optimized detection process 101, the saved candidate regions 109 are preferably further analyzed at a higher resolution than during the speed optimized process. Thus, the filter 101 includes an analysis optimized set of falsing and verification filters 116, which differ either in their nature or in their operating parameters from the falsing and verification filters 106 employed in the speed optimized analysis. Nonetheless, it will be appreciated that it may be useful to perform one or more intermediate stages of optimized analysis at increasing image resolutions. This will depend on the hardware capabilities of the imaging appliance and the resources available within the image processing subsystems of the imaging appliance.
Second stage analysis may occur in response to a variety of external events. For example, a user may initiate image playback causing this filter 101 to be applied. Alternatively, a camera may signal that it has been idle for a predetermined interval and thus background redeye processing may be initiated. Where a camera can determine its motion, for example, from auto-focus data, it may be assumed that when a camera is idle, for example, where image focus does not change for a predetermined interval and no user input is received, background image processing, including stage-two redeye filtering, may be initiated.
After a set of confirmed redeye regions 118 is determined by the second stage redeye filter 101, a correction filter (pixel modifier) 102 is applied and these corrected regions are merged 115 with the initial corrected image 112 to generate a final corrected image 113.
An alternative embodiment is illustrated in
For an exemplary, non-exhaustive list of some typical filters that may be found in either the speed or analysis-optimized redeye filters 411, 412, see U.S. Application Ser. No. 10/976,336.
In the embodiments above, the speed optimized redeye detection 100 is preferably applied to a sub-sampled input image. The confirmed redeye regions 108 from this speed optimized redeye detection 100 are passed to a redeye correction module 102/102 a. The corrected redeye image 112 can be displayed on a low-resolution viewing screen of a digital camera immediately after the image acquisition process providing the user with a redeye corrected image almost instantly. However, although this initial corrected image 112 may be adequately corrected, for example, where it is a portrait-style image in which a face occupies most of an image or where large high probability red-eye regions exist, it may not be adequately corrected for images including a large groups of persons, where the candidate redeye regions are smaller or less certain. Accordingly, the second analysis optimized redeye filtering process 101 is implemented after image acquisition but prior to final image 113 display on a larger viewer, or image printing. We remark that one advantage of the present invention is that the analysis optimized redeye detection 101 and correction 102 processes may be delayed until such high resolution viewing or printing is desired by the end user.
It should be noted that in the embodiments of
As in the case, of
In the embodiment of
The regions output by the DCT prefilter 428, incorporated in the main image acquisition chain 401, can advantageously allow much of the DCT block stream to be bypassed without being processed when an image is subsequently corrected by a filter such as a background filter module 426. This allows either much faster or more detailed analysis and filtering of the DCT blocks which are determined to require processing by an analysis optimized redeye filter 406. Those skilled in the art will realize that further embodiments are possible which separate aspects of both the DCT prefilter and the otherwise conventional type redeye filter 406 between the main image acquisition chain, 401 and a background redeye detection and correction process 426.
In the second principle stage of the DCT prefilter the DCT blocks are segmented and grouped 906 based on a plurality of criteria determined from the coefficients extracted at step 904. Finally a region based analysis is performed 907 in order to determine the final candidate redeye groupings. Next it is determined if there are any valid candidate grouping 908 and if not the normal JPEG compression process is resumed 408-2. If candidate regions are determined 908 then a bounding region is determined for each 910 which is sufficiently large to include various eye-region features which may be used as part of the main prior-art redeye filter process 406 of
After the calculations required for each criteria table have been completed 932 they are copied into temporary storage 933 and the prefilter algorithm will next perform a filtering and segmentation step 907 for each of the plurality of criteria tables. This particular step is further detailed in
This region-based analysis 936 is comprised of a number of alternative techniques which will be known to those skilled in the art. In particular, we mention that regions may be combined both in inclusive, exclusive and less frequently in mutually exclusive combinations 936-1; an alternative approach to region-based analysis will employ template matching 936-2, one example of which is disclosed U.S. Pat. No. 5,805,727 to Nakano discloses matching a subregion within a DCT image using both coarse and fine template matching techniques based on the DC coefficients of the DCT blocks within the image.
An important component of the region based analysis is a re-segmentation engine 92-6 which is responsible for analyzing larger regions which may, in fact, be two distinct overlapping regions, or clusters of smaller regions which may, in fact, be a single larger region. Then once the region based analysis 936 is completed a final LUT containing the list of determined flash defect candidate regions is obtained and written to system memory.
Returning to step 954 we see that after initialization is completed the next step for the workflow of
A number of conventional techniques can advantageously be adapted for use within the redeye DCT prefilter. U.S. Pat. No. 5,949,904 to Delp discloses querying image colors within a DCT block. In particular it allows the determination of colour within the DCT block from the DC coefficient of the DCT alone. Thus from a knowledge of the DC coefficients alone color matching can be achieved. U.S. Pat. No. 6,621,867 to Sazzad et al discloses determining the presence of edges within DCT blocks based on differences between the DC coefficients in neighbouring DCT blocks.
Now additional image qualities such as texture and image sharpness/blur can be determined through an analysis of additional AC components within a DCT block. Examples of such analysis techniques are described in U.S. patent application No. 2004/0120598 to Feng and U.S. patent application No. 2004/0057623 to Schuhurke et al.
Alternative DCT block segmentation techniques may be employed in other embodiments, specifically techniques described in prior art U.S. Pat. No. 6,407,777 to DeLuca, U.S. Pat. No. 6,873,743 to Steinberg, and U.S. patent applications 2005/0047655 and 2005/0047656 to Luo et al may be advantageously employed in certain alternative embodiments.
Next, in
A potential disadvantage in the embodiment of
Accordingly we present in
Various means of sensing user activity will be known to those skilled in the art. One exemplary means include detecting camera motion and optionally correlating this with other in-camera functions such as the autofocus subsystem and the user-interface subsystem. Many cameras also incorporate a power-saving mode which determines that a camera has been inactive long enough to disable certain main subsystem. When such a mode is activated by user inactivity then additional background image processing can be initiated without interfering with the use of the appliance by the user.
Returning to
After an image is analyzed by this speed optimized redeye filter 411 it is subsequently compressed 427-1 and stored 410. In addition data relating to the location of candidate redeye regions and false positives is recorded and associated with the stored image.
Now when the camera can initiate background processing, as described above, or when the user enters playback mode and selects an image for viewing it will be partially decompressed 433 from JPEG to DCT block form. As this decompression step is lossless there is no loss of quality to the main image which is temporarily stored in memory and passed to a DCT region decompressor 430. This DCT region decompressor uses the data stored and associated with the original image to determine the specific DCT blocks which contain candidate redeye regions, and, optionally, false positive regions which may benefit from additional detection processing if sufficient time & system resources are available.
Each decompressed DCT region is then incrementally filtered by one or more redeye filters to determine corrections which should be applied to said DCT image block.
In certain embodiments, DCT blocks may be decompressed to bitmap format and filtered as a pixel block. In other embodiments adjacent, non-candidate DCT blocks may be included in the decompression 430 and filtering 412 processes. Once a decompressed DCT block region, which may consist of multiple DCT blocks, has been corrected by the redeye filter 412 then the corrected DCT image segment is passed onto a DCT block matching module 416 which, in addition to checking the alignment of DCT blocks will also check the integration of the corrected DCT blocks within the partially decompressed and temporarily stored DCT block image. When all candidate DCT blocks and any adjacent DCT blocks included in the redeye filter analysis have been corrected they are overwritten onto the partially decompressed and temporarily stored DCT block image by a DCT region overwriter 418 module. The partially decompressed and temporarily stored DCT block image is next passed to the DCT to JPEG image compression module 427-1 and is losslessly compressed back to JPEG format.
Note that in this way the only regions of the image which are decompressed using lossy techniques are those identified by the speed optimized redeye filter 411 in the image acquisition chain. As these image regions are to be corrected the effect of lossy decompression and recompression on them will thus be negligible.
Several alternative embodiments of the invention can be identified. These include (i) saving a copy of the original defect region prior to overwriting the DCT blocks which contain the image defect in the temporary copy of the DCT image. This alternative embodiment supports lossless restoration of the original image. Those skilled in the art will realize that the saved original DCT block region containing the defect can be stored within the header of the JPEG image. One prior art description of such a technique is provided in U.S. Pat. No. 6,298,166 to Ratnakar et al. where watermark data is incorporated in the image. Thus the corrected image can contain a copy of any original uncorrected regions; alternatively (ii) multiple alternative correction algorithms can be employed and these may be temporarily copied for later storage in the JPEG header for later selection by an end user through a user interface, either on the camera or subsequently in a computer based image processing application. Note that in this the overwriting step is optional; if it is used then certain image analysis criteria can be applied as an additional processing step either immediately prior to overwriting, or as an integral part of detecting or correcting red-eye or combinations thereof.
Further aspects of these embodiments are illustrated in
In other embodiments, the performance of the fast red-eye filter can be further improved by selectively applying it to a limited set of regions within the acquired image. As it is generally impractical to implement extensive image analysis during the main image acquisition chain, these regions are preferably determined prior to the initiation of the main image acquisition.
One convenient approach to pre-determine image regions which have a high probability of containing red-eye candidates is to perform pre-processing on a set of preview images. A digital camera can generally include components for enabled the acquisition of such a stream of images, e.g., captured at video rates of 15-30 frames per second (fps) at a lower resolution than that provided by the main image acquisition. A set of 320�240, or QVGA images is typical of many consumer cameras and the size and frame-rate of this preview images stream can normally be adjusted within certain limits.
In two exemplary embodiments, as illustrated in
Face detecting and tracking typically involve two principle modes: (i) a full image search mode to detect (and confirm) new face-candidate regions (601) and (ii) the main tracking mode which predicts and then confirms the new location of existing face-candidates in subsequent frames of the image stream and compiles statistical information relating to each such confirmed candidate region. Both modes can employ a variety of new and/or conventional methods including face detection, skin region segmentation, feature detection including eye and mouth regions, active contour analysis and even non-image based inputs such as directional voice analysis (e.g. U.S. 2005/0147278 to Rui et al which describes a system for Automatic detection and tracking of multiple individuals using multiple cues). As the first mode, hereafter referred to as the "seeding mode" is applied to the entire image it is computationally more intensive and is only applied occasionally—typically every 30-60 image frames. As such, new faces appearing in the image will still be detected within a couple of seconds which is sufficient for most consumer applications. The second mode is preferably applied to every image frame, although not all of the analysis cues may be applied on every frame.
Thus in normal operation only the output(s) from the second operational mode of a face tracker algorithm will be available after every frame of the preview image stream. There are three principle outputs from this second mode: (i) a list of candidate face regions which are confirmed to still contain faces; and/or (ii) a set of data associated with each such confirmed face region including its location within that frame of the image and various additional data determined from a statistical analysis of the history of said confirmed face region; and/or (iii) a predicted location for each such confirmed face region in the next frame of the preview image stream. Note that if item (ii) is used, item (iii) can be optional as sufficient data may be provided by item (ii) for a determination of predicted location.
Now it can be understood that in our embodiment these outputs from the preview face detector (600) enable the speed optimized red-eye detector 411 to be applied selectively to face regions (601) where it is expected that a red-eye defect will be found.
A face detector may advantageously be first applied to an image prior to the application of a red-eye filter (see, e.g., U.S. 2002/0172419 to Lin et al; U.S. 2002/0126893 to Held et al; U.S. 2005/0232490 to Itagaki et al and U.S. 2004/0037460 to Luo et al., which are incorporated by reference). Under normal circumstances, there generally is not sufficient time available during the main image acquisition chain, which is operable within a digital camera, to allow the application of the face detector prior to the application of a red-eye filter. The present embodiment overcomes this disadvantage of the prior art by employing the predictive output of a face tracker module (600). Although the size of the predicted region will typically be larger than the size of the corresponding face region it is still significantly smaller than the size of the entire image. Thus the advantages of faster and more accurate detection can be achieved within a digital camera or embedded image acquisition system without the need to operate a face detector (600) within the main image acquisition chain.
Note that where multiple face candidate regions (601) are tracked, then in certain embodiments, multiple predicted regions will have the speed-optimized red-eye filter applied.
Referring still to
While an exemplary drawings and specific embodiments of the present invention have been described and illustrated, it is to be understood that that the scope of the present invention is not to be limited to the particular embodiments discussed. Thus, the embodiments shall be regarded as illustrative rather than restrictive, and it should be understood that variations may be made in those embodiments by workers skilled in the arts without departing from the scope of the present invention.
In addition, in methods that may be performed according to preferred embodiments herein and that may have been described above, the operations have been described in selected typographical sequences. However, the sequences have been selected and so ordered for typographical convenience and are not intended to imply any particular order for performing the operations, except for those where a particular order may be expressly set forth or where those of ordinary skill in the art may deem a particular order to be necessary.
In addition, all references cited herein as well as the background, invention summary, abstract and brief description of the drawings, as well as U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,407,777, 7,315,631 and 7,336,821, and U.S. published patent applications Nos. 2005/0041121, 2005/0031224, 2005/0140801, 2006/0204110, 2006/0093212, 2006/0120599, 2007/0110305 and 2006/0140455, and PCT/EP2006/008358, and U.S. patent applications Nos. 60/773,714, 60/804,546, 60/865,375, 60/865,622, 60/829,127, 60/829,127, 60/821,165, 60/892,882, 60/945,558, 60/915,669 Ser. Nos. 10/772,767, 11/554,539, 11/464,083, 11/462,035, 11/282,954, 11/027,001, 10/842,244, 11/024,046, 11/233,513, 11/753,098, 11/753,397, 11/766,674, 11/769,206, 11/772,427 and 11/460,218, are all incorporated by reference into the detailed description of the preferred embodiments as disclosing alternative embodiments.
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Topsham education alliance blazes trail with solar-powered cart
TOPSHAM — The Cathance River Education Alliance has a new solar-powered cart. Now all it needs is sunshine.
A rooftop panel weighing only 3.75 pounds is powering the alliance's trail maintenance golf cart. A State Farm Insurance grant to the alliance's sustainability education programs funded the project.
The cutting-edge amorphous silicon panel has three layers, each made to capture a different portion of solar light. It charges the cart's batteries on cloudy days, and sends a constant 1.35-amp charge to the cart's 48-volt battery pack.
Rick Wilson, executive director of the alliance, said the organization needed a cart for a variety of purposes, such as carrying items into its headquarters from its parking lot to conducting trail work. While Highland Green loaned the alliance a gas-powered cart, the ecology education-driven organization purchased a used electric vehicle.
"And the next logical progression was to look at if we can have some type of solar element with the cart," Wilson said.
The panel prolongs the cart's battery power with a longer charge, Wilson said. While the battery from the electric cart can be charged by means other than a solar panel, "the length of time ... is shortened by the augmentation of the solar canopy."
Wilson said the panel cost about $1,300. The chassis of the cart was then given a 6-inch lift and all-terrain tires in order to more easily ride the trails.
The panel is relatively easy to install, Wilson said, mentioning a YouTube video showing a 10-year-old attaching one to a vehicle. "Just roll it out, attach two wires in the right place and you're good to go," he said.
Wilson said the cart, which can carry four passengers, is also being used to transport people with disabilities or who have trouble getting to the Cathance River. The Barnes Leap trail has been improved to facilitate trips by cart to the river. Many residents of the Highlands, Highland Green and members of the public can benefit from those rides.
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If you're one of the estimated seven million people in Europe using e-cigarettes such as Intellicig, do you now consider yourself a smoker or a non-smoker?
It's a question that really divides opinion among e-cigarette users. Some believe that, because they no longer smoke tobacco cigarettes and use a smoke-free alternative instead, they are no longer smokers. On the other hand, some would argue that even though e-cigarettes are a remarkable substitute for smoking tobacco products and contain significantly fewer of the known harmful chemicals produced when burning tobacco, they are still smokers.
The debate came to the fore this week when The Daily Telegraph published an article - "E-cigarettes: Will they make life insurance cheaper?"
We know that smokers are penalised in terms of life insurance premiums, but would that be reconsidered if the person had switched to electronic cigarettes?
There is no definitive answer just yet. As we enter an era of increasing e-cigarette use, many organisations and industries are still playing catch-up in terms of adapting to this new phenomenon.
Interestingly, the article refers to an insurance broker near to our headquarters in Manchester which is pioneering a new approach. Suttons Independent Financial Advisors is reported to have successfully arranged cover, at non-smoking rates, for a number of clients who use only e-cigarettes. But the Association of British Insurers argues that there is not yet enough medical evidence on e-cigarettes to make a categorical decision.
What's your experience of applying for life insurance? If you're using Intellicig e-cigarettes, do you think of yourself as a smoker, or a non-smoker?
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Finding and installing flooring options to go along with your home's fireplace is not all that difficult, but may require more consideration than you originally thought. Whether you prefer to surround your fireplace with wood, tile, carpet, or another material, there are things you should consider before installing each type of flooring.
Surrounding your fireplace with hardwood flooring can give the room both a modern and natural look. The only major deterrent, though, is the fact that wood can be damaged fairly easily. While it is fairly unlikely that your wood floors will catch fire lying in close proximity to your fireplace, the flooring has a much higher probability of getting blemishes. In other words, if you place wood flooring next to your fireplace, you might find that sparks and other debris leave burn marks or dings in the wood. Depending on your attitude, over time this might add character to the flooring. Conversely, if you want to keep your floors looking pristine, wood might not be the best material to use as flooring around your fireplace.
Tile is the material with the least susceptibility to damage when put next to a fireplace. Additionally, different kinds of tile, like Spanish and stone, can add depth to your fireplace while transforming an ordinary room into a hallmark of your home. What's more, there are many different types of tile to choose from, and any of them can prove an integral part of your home's style and decor. Tile is also one of the most durable materials to use for your flooring, which means it will likely hold up better and longer than wood and carpet.
Carpet is similar to wood flooring in that it can look great surrounding a fireplace, but has the potential to be damaged, or at the very least, get dirty from making fires. From shag to Berber, carpet is probably the most antagonistic material to surround your fireplace with simply because it is the most flammable, and can very easily swallow pieces of soot, dirt, and wood that fires leave behind. With that said, if you frame your fireplace with a large enough barrier of brick, or another less sensitive material, carpet suddenly becomes a much more appealing option for your flooring.


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Some call it the Edifice Complex. Others have named it the Law of More, or the Taj Mahal syndrome.
A decade-long spending binge to build academic buildings, dormitories and recreational facilities — some of them inordinately lavish to attract students — has left colleges and universities saddled with large amounts of debt. Oftentimes, students are stuck picking up the bill.
Overall debt levels more than doubled from 2000 to 2011 at the more than 500 institutions rated by Moody's, according to inflation-adjusted data compiled for The New York Times by the credit rating agency. In the same time, the amount of cash, pledged gifts and investments that colleges maintain declined more than 40 percent relative to the amount they owe.
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ICON Enterprises (doing business as 'CivicPlus') is a company in Kansas that specializes in building municipal websites. My company (Delaware.Net) competes with companies like this from around the country when we bid on municipal website design projects. We lost a couple of prospective new projects to CivicPlus in 2007 when we were in the middle of producing our own Content Management System (CMS) for government websites. But in 2008, we had completed building and testing our CMS system for eGovernment websites, and we have won many municipal projects from around the USA ever since. Our new system is called CivicLogic CMS. In this article, I will explain why our solution is better than some of the other options out there, and how we can help municipalities to migrate to our solution.
Here are some of the differences between us and our competitors;
Some municipal website design companies package websites into flat fees based on the number of citizens that live in the city/town in question. This flat-rate pricing doesn't work because smaller cities end up overpaying for their website, and larger cities end up paying more for add-on website modules to get a complete solution. Delaware.Net's fees for municipal websites is usually less than these other companies, and our proposals are more accurate because they are customized for each site. Our one-time development fees for municipalities have ranged typically from $8000 for a smaller municipality up to $30,000 for a very large site (included dedicated servers, backups, GIS integration, and much more than the average website), with the average Delaware.Net project being closer to $10,000. You could always spend much, much more, as evidenced by this quote given by CivicPlus.
Other firms bundle design pricing with hosting over multi-year terms, selling the website services as a lease. This can trap the municipality with a vendor over a long period of time, limiting their options. A small city website project that we just won was quoted at $27,000 for a 3-year project from CivicPlus. Our contract was under $9,000 for custom design and development, training, an Intranet, a request tracking system, email newsletter system, consulting, and more. We bill for our projects in three or four payments, so this is much more affordable. We saved that small city over $14,000, and their site will also be completed much faster on our more powerful CMS.
One of the challenges of building a custom website on a CMS is how to make the site not appear to look like a template. Our designs are custom, and we are not cranking out cookie-cutter designs. Many times we hire local photographers at each city to get the best possible result.
Marketing speak aside, you have to really demo a Content Management System (CMS) before you buy it. Your CMS is where you will be spending a lot of your time managing your website. When you try these systems, ask yourself – "how easy will this system be for my employees to use?". If a system requires 6-12 clicks to accomplish editing a page, and our system takes 2-3 clicks, ours will save your employees a LOT of time over the other system. All municipal CMS platforms are not created equally. We spent quite a bit of time looking at competing CMS solutions before we built ours, and it took us two years to get it just right. Some systems, like CivicPlus, are simply a page management system for your website. Others, like our CivicLogic system, are designed to be a true Intranet (secure staff website) for your staff, as well as being a CMS. With a true Intranet website, you can securely add personnel documents, resources, file, pages, calendars, news, messaging, and much more for your staff. Each department in your city can have their own private calendar and portal to share information. This will save your municipality time and money, and get better adoption of the whole system from your staff.
Hosting from CivicPlus last year was generally $600 per month before they went to their bundled pricing. That is a steep fee that still didn't include all of their available modules. For example, you would have to spend another $100 per month AND a $1500 setup fee if you wanted their request tracking system. A request tracking system is a VERY desirable system because it can be used to track complaints from citizens. Our system includes a better request tracking system at no additional cost, a mass email newsletter system, and a real Intranet system for $150 per month. That is a savings of $6600 per year! For a better system! It obviously isn't all about price, so you should test both systems to see what is better for your city.
A municipality that recently came to us to move away from CivicPlus cited that the number one reason was the fact that they were getting nickeled and dimed with hourly billing. The city (that I can't name) was quoted $80 PER IMAGE to change some photos in the website. If the city changed just TWO PHOTOS in their website, they would have paid more than we charge for a whole month of municipal website hosting. Hourly design rates from Civic Logic CMS are billed in 1/4 increments at about $100 per hour. Since our customers can change most images on their own with our CMS, most of those invoices can be avoided, saving you a ton of money.
If you paid for a CivicPlus website, and you are tired of overpaying for your monthly fees, we can help. Generally speaking, we can move a CivicPlus website to our CMS, Intranet, Newsletter, Request Tracking, and even our Project Management Module in a matter of two weeks. The cost to move your site would be very low, and you would recoup that fee in a matter of a couple of months because our hosting fees are so much less than CivicPlus. Your design files would also remain intact, so you wouldn't have to pay for a new design.
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9.23.12 WOMEN'S SOCCER: Gearhart's Goal Lifts Cavs Past Lake Erie
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Another early goal provided the difference for Walsh as the Cavaliers scored a 1-0 victory over Lake Erie on a cool Sunday afternoon. The Cavs improve to 5-1-1 overall and 2-1-1 in the GLIAC and are now 9-0 all-time against the Storm (1-6-1, 0-3-1).
The goal came in the 14thminute when Jessie Gearhart (Fr., 5-9, Wadsworth, OH/HS) scored on an assist from Kristin Conti (Fr., 5-8, Hartville, OH/Lake). Conti was on the left side of the box and found Gearhart on the opposite side running towards the net. Gearhart was able to get a touch on the ball and slip it back to the left side, past the goalie and into the net. It was the highlight of a strong offensive effort for the Cavaliers in the first half. Gearhart's goal was her team-high fourth of the year and second game-winning goal.
From there, the defense did its job once again as freshmen goalkeepers Taylor Stano (5-7, Massillon, OH/Jackson) and Michaella Stucky (5-5, Medina, OH/HS) combined for the fifth shutout of the year. Stano made one save in the opening half, while Stucky made a pair of saves. Overall, Lake Erie took twice as many shots in the second half than the first. The Cavs outshot the Storm 15-12 in the game.
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iPhoto to Email
Don't know if the following is possible...
iPhoto>Slide Show>Settings>Transition>Mosaic Flip>Play...it works.
Select Email>Send to myself the jpegs come up but there is no transition.
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You need to export the slideshow you have created as a movie file. Once that's done, you can then attach the movie file to an email (caution: movie files tend to be too large to practically send in emails).
A better idea would be to make the movie file, then put it in Dropbox or something like that and share the URL in email.
iPhoto to Email
Thank you for responding...it is very much appreciated.
I took the easy way out... Microsoft Office X>Power Point.
Thank you again.
I'm glad that worked for you, but bear in mind that relatively few people will be able to see your slideshow if you do it that way, as it requires the recipient to have MS Office in order to properly view the file. While a lot of PC people have this on their machines, relatively few Mac people do -- in essence you're creating a slideshow that it will cost someone up to $500 to have a look at. Just something to consider for future use.
Thank you for responding and your concern.
I apologize for this late response...things happen.
I emailed ahead to see if the individual could open MS Office>Power Point.
She could...I did.
Thank you again.
You may be right about it not working with Intel Macs - I will have to check that out to be sure although it was still working with Powerpoints from Office 2008. However, Mac Office is still not needed in order to view Powerpoint slides since pressing the space bar on a Powerpoint file allows it to be viewed. I just tested it with Powerpoints from both Office 2008 and 2011.
You're right that QuickLook is sufficient for basic viewing, but it doesn't support the kind of animated slideshows with synced music etc that people tend to send each other in emails and so forth.
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Square Enix has confirmed to GameSpot that the upcoming Director's Cut for Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be coming to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC alongside the previously announced Wii U version.
Eidos Montreal's Jean Francois Dugas revealed that the Director's Cut was going multiplatform on GameSpot's E3 2013 Live Show.
No additional information was given, nor did Square Enix confirm whether the Director's Cut would be released separately as DLC for current owners of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
The Director's Cut for Deus Ex: Human Revolution includes the Tong's Rescue mission and Missing Link downloadable content, alongside "overhauled" boss battles, "redefined" game balance and combat, "improved" artificial intelligence, and updated graphics.


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Upstream Theater's Ancient Mariner Is a Triumph
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Chapungu, an exhibition of contemporary African sculpture now on view at the Missouri Botanical Garden, will go a long way to change this image if viewers take the time to look closely, read carefully and relearn history. Chapungu is a survey of 66 sculptures by 26 artists who represent the best in Zimbabwean art today, specifically stonecarving, a relatively new practice now thriving in the country.
The artists in this exhibition are so highly skilled that it's easy to assume they come out of an ancient tradition. But stonecarving is a practice in Zimbabwe that dates back only about 40 years, with Frank McEwen's founding of an artists' workshop within the Rhodesian National Gallery. Subsequently, other workshops for stone-sculptors emerged, including Vukutu, Tengenenge and the Gallery Shona Sculpture, founded in 1970 by Roy Guthrie. That last workshop gave rise to Chapungu Sculpture Park, the source of works in the current exhibition. Guthrie still serves as the park's director.
These sculptures, placed throughout the garden and arranged according to theme, are stunning examples of stonecarving, finely wrought reflections on customs, legends, history and the natural world; they're humorous and heartbreaking, absolutely amazing examples of the art, which is certainly the most difficult and exacting of all sculptural techniques. These artists use a variety of stones, from opal to lepidolite to the extremely hard, crystalline matrix of dolomite. Many of the artists have used large blocks of serpentine or springstone, leaving parts of the reddish-yellow exterior "blanket" surface raw but carving and polishing forms within the stone's darker depths.
In every case, the sculpture's subject works perfectly with the character of the individual piece of stone. Agnes Nyanhongo's "Mbuya Nehanda -- Spirit Medium" (1995), for instance, is a dense vertical opal stone depicting a woman, face raised to the sky, holding a staff close to her body. A robed, serene figure, she represents a revered Zimbabwean national hero who led one of the first uprisings against white settlers in 1896; she was later taken to Britain and hanged.
"Mbuya Nehanda" is included in the section titled "The Role of Women." Nearby, "The Family" section contains another series of memorable pieces. Tapfuma Gutsa's "Listening to the Baby Kick" (1988) is a sensitive portrayal of pregnancy, set in the Garden's iris section. Colleen Madamombe's "The Birth" (1992) shows a new mother in the throes of childbirth as the baby emerges and slides into the waiting hands of the grandmother.
The "Social Comment" section includes sculptures that thematize Zimbabwe's political history and some of the more dramatic problems that have emerged there in recent years. Joseph Muzondo's "Bringing the Sad News" (1990) and "The Last Warrior" (1989) address the wars leading to the country's independence in 1980. Amos Supuni's "The End of Hope" is an abstracted figure lamenting economic hardship, corruption and crime. Dominic Benhura's "Our H.I.V. Friend" (1997) is a depiction of sympathy and support, with two individuals carrying the burden of a sick friend's body. AIDS has decimated African countries such as Zimbabwe; Benhura's sculpture is a powerful expression of strength in the face of a devastating scourge.
Other sections in this exhibition include "Nature and the Environment," "Custom and Legend," "Village Life," "The Role of the Elders" and "The Spirit World." The five dozen sculptures in this show share a common medium -- stone -- and many share themes. But they are marked much more by their differences, with each artist developing a distinctive style of carving. Nicholas Mukomberanwa's sharp, faceted style in "My Experience" (1992) contrasts starkly with Benhura's more spontaneous, expressive style, and Bernard Matemera allows forms to swell, balloonlike, from the smooth, polished stone. There is no mistaking one artist's style for another's.
Likewise, each artist has his or her own approach to the art. Most are largely self-taught; many have apprenticed with elder stonecarvers. Gutsa draws from a variety of sources, including Western art ("The Western world has long borrowed from Africa. I find no problem in borrowing from them," he argues). Some of the artists work with assistants, but most carving is done by the artists. Benhura begins a work by making preliminary drawings on paper but tears them up as the sculpture nears completion. In his view, the drawings often have little to do with the finished work, which he sees as a collaboration between himself and the stone.
Chapungu began its international tour in London, where it was on display at Kew Gardens before its arrival in St. Louis. Because of the enormous size of the pieces and the exhibition as a whole, the most logical exhibition space for it is a large outdoor garden. But exhibition spaces are never neutral; they contribute to, or can even determine, the meaning of the artworks they display. Imagine the buzz of cultural associations that accompanied the exhibition's stint at Kew. There, viewers were treated to Zimbabwean art, much of it political, on display in Britain, the country's former colonizer, and what's more, this art is set in the context of a garden -- itself a supreme symbol of colonization.
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Shocker1, you are getting boring! You are obviously have it in for the coach of the Jesters for some past greivance. You are entitled to your opinion on pro and amateur but everyone plays to the same rules. How about you comment on the players, their performance and results?
Didnt they announced some local Jesuit player as their first signing, which means they are ready to give locals a chance. There isnt any better leagues or teams around here for youth to progress too for sure so lets support the JESTERS!!!
I cant wait for the first game, its a shame they play away first against Baton Rouge - although its not to far to travel!
If the PDL announced PDL pro arent other teams surely doing this, hence creating a level basis once again. I understand they will play amateur players but isnt this a great way for college players and amateurs to play against pro's and test themselves? I think the schools should embrace this and help the sport grow in the city. Go Jesters!


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Conor Sammon's confidence rising as he finds his feet in good run of starts for Derby County
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CONOR Sammon feels he is finding his feet at Derby County after netting his fifth goal of the season in the 3-1 victory over Leeds United.
Sammon opened the scoring after a quarter of an hour at Pride Park Stadium on Saturday.
Paul Green levelled on the stroke of half-time against his former club but Jake Buxton regained the lead for the Rams in the 66th minute and substitute Ben Davies wrapped up the points deep into added time.
Aside from his goal, Sammon – a £1.2m signing from Wigan Athletic in August – produced an impressive all-round display in leading the line alongside Theo Robinson.
"I'm really enjoying my role in the team and getting back-to-back starts," said the 25-year-old Irishman.
"I'm really starting to find my feet and I was delighted to get another goal.
"As a striker, you are judged on goals and I'm always striving to score.
"I'm happy to have added another one to my tally.
"I was definitely pleased with my own contribution."
For his opener, Sammon received a fine pass from man of the match Will Hughes before taking on Leeds defender Lee Peltier and wrong-footing keeper Paddy Kenny.
"It was a brilliant through ball by Will. That's the kind of thing he is capable of.
"In training, you see him do it all the time – he's got that quality – and I was just delighted to be on the end of it.
"I thought the defender was getting back to put a tackle in, so I was just looking to get my strike off as soon as possible.
"I didn't catch the shot cleanly but they are often the ones that go in.
"I think the keeper was expecting me to go across him but it caught him out, so happy days."
Nigel Clough's men are now unbeaten in seven home matches.
"We knew it was going to be a big game going into it but our home form has been really good this season," said Sammon.
"Leeds had won three on the spin and were in good form.
"The atmosphere was really good for the early kick-off and it was a brilliant three points for us.
"There's a good rivalry between the fans and when you arrived at the ground, you just knew it was going to be a good game.
"The weather was nice and the pitch was in good condition – it was just a brilliant day to come out and play a game of football.
"I'm just delighted that our fans went home happy."
Sammon was pleased with Derby's response to conceding an equaliser just before the interval.
"It was very frustrating to concede a goal when we'd played well," said the former Kilmarnock front man.
"We were hoping to see it in to half-time but it wasn't to be.
"But we've got such a good group of players and a good team spirit.
"We knew that if we kept doing what we'd been doing in the first half, we'd create more chances. Thankfully, we did.
"Credit goes to the whole team. The centre-backs were winning headers, including Mark O'Brien when he came on – I think he won every header that came into his area.
"We worked hard and saw out the victory."
Sammon also had some words of praise for strike partner Robinson.
"Theo's been in great form – he scores goals but his game is about more than that," he said.
"He put in a great shift against Leeds.
"Sometimes he drifts out wide to make it a five in midfield and then comes back to join me up front.
"He's a brilliant player to have in your side."
Saturday's result extended Derby's winning streak against Leeds to eight matches.
"I saw that we'd won seven in a row before the game," Sammon added.
"It's a very strange statistic but, from our point of view, very good and long may it continue."


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Family of Ilkeston hit-and-run victim issue plea for help
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heartfelt appeal: Paul Davis's loved ones with a photograph of him. From left are mum Pauline Davis, with Paul's sisters Debbie Rooney, 40 (with granddaughter Lily Anna, aged five months) and Karen Brownless, 42, and brother Russell.
THE family of a man who died after a hit-and-run incident have issued a heartfelt plea for the driver of the car involved to come forward.
Paul Davis, 37, was found lying in Corporation Road, Ilkeston in the early hours of Sunday, August 10, and was taken to Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead.
Police believe he was already lying in the road when he was hit by the car, which has not yet been identified.
Now, his mother, brother and sisters have spoken for the first time about how his death has affected the family in the hope of persuading witnesses to come forward.
Mr Davis's mum, Pauline Davis, lives in Corporation Road and said she had not been able to walk past the spot where her son was found since his death.
She said: "Even though Paul has been laid to rest, we don't feel as if we can move forward with our lives until we know exactly what happened that night.
"If he had fallen down and hit his head and died as a result of that we could accept that, but what happened was horrendous. We just don't understand.
"There are so many unanswered questions, we just want the person responsible to come forward and give us the answers – we need that closure."
She said the last time she saw her son was on the Saturday before his death, when he went shopping in Ilkeston with fiancee Joanne Cook.
The couple normally went out together but, on Saturday night, Paul went out for a drink with his friends for the first time in a year. His mum said the family had no idea how he came to lie the road.
Mr Davis's sister Debbie Rooney, 40, described him as a loving and caring man who loved walking his dogs.
She said: "He would help anyone and he didn't have any enemies.
"The person who hit him was responsible enough to get in a car that night and we just want them to be responsible enough to come forward now."
Sister Karen Brownless, 42, added: "Whoever it was, they probably have a family, too, and we just want them to put themselves in our position. Wouldn't they want to know what had happened?"
Mr Davis worked as a machine operative at Amcor Flexibles, in Ilkeston, and lived in Corporation Road with his fiancee and sons Aiden, 15, Nathan, 17.
His mum said the children and their mother were also desperate for answers and added: "My youngest son, Russell, was only 13 when I lost my husband and it's a difficult time for children at that age. They are helping their mum out and keeping themselves busy."
She said the family were living in hope that a witness to the accident would be found and that by September 29 – which would have been Mr Davis's 38th birthday – they would finally have some answers.
"Every time the phone rings, we hope it is the police with some news. I know it's not going to bring Paul back but I will have more peace of mind."


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Mission Cataract
The doctors and staff of Weston Eye Center and Vision Surgery & Laser Center have again volunteered to participate in Lions Mission Cataract USA. We want to help the people living in this community who have no means of paying for needed cataract surgery.
This year we have chosen to hold our surgery day in December & refer to our Mission as the "Gift of Sight". Just like years past this mission brings together eye doctors, surgeons, and volunteers who will provide free eye screening and cataract surgery to patients who have no financial resources.
Eye screening at no cost, by appointment only to qualified participants, will be provided at our offices at 2435 NW Kline in Roseburg, Oregon. Individuals who require cataract surgery and qualify for financial need will have the surgery performed December 1st.
If you know someone who is visually impaired, due to cataracts, and has financial needs or if you would like to be more involved please contact Leanna Tatone at our office at 541-672-2020 by October 31st.
Please don't hesitate to contact our office if you have any questions or would like additional information.
What is Mission Cataract Oregon? Link to KATU's Everyday Heroes
Mission Cataract Oregon offers free cataract surgery to low income individuals of all ages who have no insurance, and do not qualify for Medicare, Medicaid or any other form of government assistance.
In Oregon, participating Lions Clubs and the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation help pre-qualify and pre-screen individuals in need of catarat surgeries, then team with Dr. Weston and his crew who will perform the surgery free of charge. These key partnerships enable the Foundation to assist more people with sight and hearing saving surgeries and treatments.
How to Access This Program
Individuals calling the OLSHF Office for surgical assistance will be mailed an application and will be referred to their local Lion's Club Sight and Hearing Chair to begin the application process. You may also contact our office at 541-672-2020 and ask for Leanna. She will direct you to the appropriate contact at our local Lion's Club.
The applicant must qualify for assistance under the Lions Patient Care Guidelines specified by the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation's Board of Trustees.
Mission Cataract USA was started in 1991 by Frederick A. Richburg, MD, Medical Director of Valley Eye Institute in California. He decided to donate one day for free cataract surgery and launched the program with a group of local volunteers in Fresno.
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In 1993, the Mission Cataract USA program expanded nationwide and Jon-Marc Weston, MD, of Weston Eye Center, Roseburg, started the program in Oregon. As a Roseburg Lion, Dr. Weston's goal was to have clubs in every Oregon community partner with surgeons and facilities for an annual free program.
"Having participated in international surgical missions, I saw a great unmet need where people in my own community couldn't access this vision restoring procdure because of inability to pay. I decided to take a more proactive approach and provide surgery to an average of 20 people each year," said Dr. Weston. Dr. Weston, Cascade Anesthesia and the entire staff donate their expertise, equipment, supplies and facility every year to many people every year.
Since that time, Dr. Weston and Dr. Tronnes from our office partnered with the Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation, to bring awareness to other eye surgeons in the state of Oregon. Together, they increased awareness of the need of the program, which has since expanded the number of eye surgeons participating statewide.
In 2008, Martin Balish, MD, of Oregon Eye Specialists, was recruited to Mission Cataract by the Beaverton Lions Cub. Doctors Mark Fay and Scott Stevens, of Klamath Eye Center, also find their participation in Mission Cataract very fulfilling.The Doctors at EyeHealth Northwest in Portland joined the Mission Cataract program in 2011.
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