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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Ameesh Makadia, New York, NY (US);
Sanjiv Kumar, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating data for annotating images automatically. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an input image, identifying one or more nearest neighbor images of the input image from among a collection of images, in which each of the one or more nearest neighbor images is associated with a respective one or more image labels, assigning a plurality of image labels to the input image, in which the plurality of image labels are selected from the image labels associated with the one or more nearest neighbor images, and storing in a data repository the input image having the assigned plurality of image labels. In another aspect, a method includes assigning a single image label to the input image, in which the single image label is selected from labels associated with multiple ranked nearest neighbor images.