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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Fernando A. Brucher, Irvine, CA (US);
Ulrich Buddemeier, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Hartwig Adam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hartmut Neven, Malibu, CA (US);
Fernando A. Brucher, Irvine, CA (US);
Ulrich Buddemeier, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Hartwig Adam, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hartmut Neven, Malibu, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment the present invention is a method for populating and updating a database of images of landmarks including geo-clustering geo-tagged images according to geographic proximity to generate one or more geo-clusters, and visual-clustering the one or more geo-clusters according to image similarity to generate one or more visual clusters. In another embodiment, the present invention is a system for identifying landmarks from digital images, including the following components: a database of geo-tagged images; a landmark database; a geo-clustering module; and a visual clustering module. In other embodiments the present invention may be a method of enhancing user queries to retrieve images of landmarks, or a method of automatically tagging a new digital image with text labels.