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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Tcl Research America Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yimin Yang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Haohong Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
TCL RESEARCH AMERICA INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3079 (2013.01); G06K 9/4642 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01); G06K 9/6215 (2013.01);
Abstract
A video object retrieval method is provided. The method includes dividing an input video into a number of video shots and detecting target-class object occurrences and related-class object occurrences in each video shot. The method also includes pre-processing object bounding box images and performing automatic object extraction. Further, the method includes performing object-level feature extraction and integration and generating visual search results based on similarity scores.