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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2009
Malcolm Slaney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kilian Quirin Weinberger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kaushal Kurapati, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriram J. Sathish, Karnataka, IN;
Polly NG, Iiolly, NY (US);
Malcolm Slaney, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kilian Quirin Weinberger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kaushal Kurapati, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriram J. Sathish, Karnataka, IN;
Polly Ng, Iiolly, NY (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A search engine determines a set of other images that are similar to a user-selected image, and presents those other images to the user. In determining whether two images are sufficiently similar to each other to merit presentation of one, the search engine determines a Euclidean distance between separate feature vectors that are associated with each of the images. Each such vector indicates diverse types of information that is known about the associated image. The types of information included within such a vector may include attributes that reflect visual characteristics that are visible in an image, verbal tags that have been associated with the image users in a community of users, concepts derived from those tags, coordinates that reflect a geographic location at which a camera that produced the image was when the camera produced the image, and concepts related to groups with which the image is associated.