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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2010
Jean-yves Bouguet, Belmont, CA (US);
Carole Dulong, Saratoga, CA (US);
Igor V. Kozintsev, San Jose, CA (US);
Yi Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ara V. Nefian, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jean-Yves Bouguet, Belmont, CA (US);
Carole Dulong, Saratoga, CA (US);
Igor V. Kozintsev, San Jose, CA (US);
Yi Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ara V. Nefian, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An image retrieval program (IRP) may be used to query a collection of digital images. The IRP may include a mining module to use local and global feature descriptors to automatically rank the digital images in the collection with respect to similarity to a user-selected positive example. Each local feature descriptor may represent a portion of an image based on a division of that image into multiple portions. Each global feature descriptor may represent an image as a whole. A user interface module of the IRP may receive input that identifies an image as the positive example. The user interface module may also present images from the collection in a user interface in a ranked order with respect to similarity to the positive example, based on results of the mining module. Query concepts may be saved and reused. Other embodiments are described and claimed.