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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michele Merler, New York, NY (US);
John R. Smith, New York, NY (US);
Rosario A. Uceda-Sosa, Hartsdale, NY (US);
Hui Wu, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes utilizing two or more classifiers to calculate, for an input image, probability scores for a plurality of classes based on visual information extracted from the input image and semantic relationships in a classification hierarchy, wherein each of the two or more classifiers is associated with a given one of two or more levels in the classification hierarchy with each level in the classification hierarchy comprising a subset of the plurality of classes, and classifying the input image based on the calculated probability scores.