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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2010
Johannes B. Steffens, Westoverledingen, DE;
Johannes B. Steffens, Westoverledingen, DE;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An object identification system iteratively learns both a template map used to transform a template describing an object in an image, and a related similarity metric used in comparing one transformed object template to another. This automatic learning eliminates the need to manually devise a transformation and metric that are effective for a given image corpus. The template map and the similarity metric are learned together, such that the incremental component to be added to the template map at a given iteration of the learning process is based at least in part on the components of the similarity metric, and vice-versa.