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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2011
Applicants:
Ming Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiaoyu Wang, Columbia, MO (US);
Yuanqing Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kai Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ming Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xiaoyu Wang, Columbia, MO (US);
Yuanqing Lin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kai Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
NEC Laboratories America, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/4676 (2013.01); G06K 2009/4695 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed to categorize images by detecting local features for each image; applying a tree structure to index local features in the images; and extracting a rank list of candidate images with category tags based on a tree indexing structure to estimate a label of a query image.