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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2006
Tie-yan Liu, Beijing, CN;
Tao Qin, Beijing, CN;
Wei-ying MA, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for projecting queries and images into a similarity space where queries are close to their relevant images is provided. A similarity space projection ('SSP') system learns a query projection function and an image projection function based on training data. The query projection function projects the relevance of the most relevant words of a query into a similarity space and the image projection function projects the relevance to an image of the most relevant words of a query into the same similarity space so that queries and their relevant images are close in the similarity space. The SSP system can then identify images that are relevant to a target query and queries that are relevant to a target image using the projection functions.