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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2014
Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 Llc, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Madirakshi Das, Penfield, NY (US);
Alexander C. Loui, Penfield, NY (US);
Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A method of identifying groups of related digital images in a digital image collection, comprising: analyzing each of the digital images to generate associated feature descriptors related to image content or image capture conditions; storing the feature descriptors associated with the digital images in a metadata database; automatically analyzing the metadata database to identify a plurality of frequent itemsets, wherein each of the frequent itemsets is a co-occurring feature descriptor group that occurs in at least a predefined fraction of the digital images; determining a probability of occurrence for each the identified frequent itemsets; determining a quality score for each of the identified frequent itemsets responsive to the determined probability of occurrence; ranking the frequent itemsets based at least on the determined quality scores; and identifying one or more groups of related digital images corresponding to one or more of the top ranked frequent itemsets.