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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2010
Meng Wang, Singapore, SG;
Xian-sheng Hua, Beijing, CN;
Yan Song, Anhui, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for object-sensitive image searches are described herein. These methods and systems are usable for receiving a query for an image of an object and providing a ranked list of query results to the user based on a ranking of the images. The object-sensitive image searches may generate a pre-trained multi-instance learning (MIL) model trained from free training data from users sharing images at websites to identify a common pattern of the object, and/or may generate a MIL model 'on the fly' trained from pseudo-positive and pseudo-negative samples of query results to identify a common pattern of the object. As such, the user is presented with query results that include images that prominently display the object near the top of the results.