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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2010
Qifa KE, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ming Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yi LI, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rui HU, Beijing, CN;
Yanfeng Sun, Beijing, CN;
Qifa Ke, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ming Liu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yi Li, Issaquah, WA (US);
Rui Hu, Beijing, CN;
Yanfeng Sun, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and computer-readable media for propagating content category information to images stored in a database are described. A seed image that is associated with a known content category is received. A content-based image retrieval is conducted using the seed image as a search query image. A number of search result images are identified. The content category is propagated to the search result images. Metadata associated with the search result images is aggregated and analyzed to identify domains that should also be associated with the content category. Additional images that are associated with the domain are identified and the content category propagated thereto. The process is iterated using the additional images as search query images for the content-based image retrieval.