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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
May. 07, 2001
Peter O. Stubler, Rochester, NY (US);
Rajiv Mehrotra, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of generating captions or semantic labels for an acquired image is based upon similarity between the acquired image and one or more stored images that are maintained in an image database environment, where the stored images have preexisting captions or labels associated with them. The method includes the steps of: a) acquiring an image for evaluation with respect to the stored images; b) automatically extracting metadata from the acquired image without requiring user interaction in the image database environment; c) automatically selecting one or more stored images having metadata similar to the extracted metadata, thereby providing selected stored images with metadata similar to the acquired image; and d) generating captions or labels for the acquired image from the preexisting captions or labels associated with the selected stored images.