Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

University of Science and Technology of China

Zhengjun Zha

Xian-Sheng Hua

Tao Mei

Linjun Yang

Yang Cao

Meng Wang

Jie Cheng

Lei Jiang

An image processing method and apparatus, and a storage medium are provided, and relate to the image processing field. A dependency relationship between features of texture primitives of an image may be obtained based on direction information and a multi-scale feature map of the image, at least one group of texture features of the image may be obtained based on a feature map of the image on at least one scale, and a texture representation result of the image may be obtained based on the dependency relationship and the at least one group of texture features. Then, the image may be processed based on the texture representation result of the image. Because the texture representation result of the image can reflect more perfect texture information of the image, an image processing effect is better when image processing such as image recognition, image segmentation, or image synthesis is performed.

Image processing method and apparatus, and storage medium

Techniques described herein enable better understanding of the intent of a user that submits a particular search query. These techniques receive a search request for images associated with a particular query. In response, the techniques determine images that are associated with the query, as well as other keywords that are associated with these images. The techniques then cluster, for each set of images associated with one of these keywords, the set of images into multiple groups. The techniques then rank the images and determine a representative image of each cluster. Finally, the tools suggest, to the user that submitted the query, to refine the search based on user selection of a keyword and a representative image. Thus, the techniques better understand the user's intent by allowing the user to refine the search based on another keyword and based on an image on which the user wishes to focus the search.

Visual and textual query suggestion

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