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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Wei Xie, Woodridge, IL (US);
Michael Allen Bivins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steve Jones, Oxford, GB;
Kevin Keqiang Deng, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
Brian Schiller, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jonathan Sullivan, Natick, MA (US);
Alejandro Terrazas, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Michael Sheppard, Brooklyn, NY (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Example methods, apparatus, systems to perform context-based image recognition for consumer market research are disclosed. Disclosed example methods include comparing a first subset of feature points in a first region of interest of a reference image with a first subset of feature points of a first image residing within a first region corresponding spatially to the first region of interest and located at a first location in the first image to determine a first match value. Disclosed example methods also include, in response to determining the first match value satisfies a first threshold, comparing a second subset of feature points in a second region of interest of the reference image with a second subset of the feature points of the first image residing within a second region of the first image corresponding spatially to the second region of interest to determine a second match value.