Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Yunye Gong

Ziyan Wu

Jan Ernst

Srikrishna Karanam

Kuan-Chuan Peng

A method for enhancing facial/object recognition includes receiving a query image, and providing a database of object images, including images relevant to the query image, each image having a first attribute and a second attribute with each of the first attribute and the second attribute having a first state and a second state. The method also includes creating an augmented database by generating a plurality of artificial images for each image in the database, the artificial images cooperating with the image to define a set of images including every combination of the first attribute and the second attribute in each of the first state and the second state, and comparing the query image to the images in the augmented database to find one or more matches.

System and method for enhancing image retrieval by smart data synthesis

A method of expanding a visual learning database in a computer by teaching the computer includes providing a series of training images to the computer wherein each series includes three images with each image falling within a unique image domain and with each image domain representing a possible combination of a first attribute and a second attribute with a first image domain including the first attribute and the second attribute in a first state (X=0, Y=0), a second image domain including the first attribute in a second state and the second attribute in the first state (X=1, Y=0), and a third image domain including the first attribute in the first state and the second attribute in the second state (X=0, Y=1). The method also includes developing within the computer forward generators and reverse generators between the first image domain, the second image domain, the third image domain, and a fourth image domain for which no training image is provided, and applying with the computer the forward generators and reverse generators to single images that fall within one of the first image domain, the second image domain, the third image domain, and a fourth image domain to generate images for the remaining domains to populate a database.

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