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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2007
Jing Liu, Beijing, CN;
Bin Wang, Beijing, CN;
Zhiwei LI, Beijing, CN;
Mingjing LI, Beijing, CN;
Wei-ying MA, Beijing, CN;
Jing Liu, Beijing, CN;
Bin Wang, Beijing, CN;
Zhiwei Li, Beijing, CN;
Mingjing Li, Beijing, CN;
Wei-Ying Ma, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Word correlations are estimated using a content-based method, which uses visual features of image representations of the words. The image representations of the subject words may be generated by retrieving images from data sources (such as the Internet) using image search with the subject words as query words. One aspect of the techniques is based on calculating the visual distance or visual similarity between the sets of retrieved images corresponding to each query word. The other is based on calculating the visual consistence among the set of the retrieved images corresponding to a conjunctive query word. The combination of the content-based method and a text-based method may produce even better result.