Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Clustering images using an image region graph
- Patent Title (中): 使用图像区域图聚类图像
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Application No.: US12183613Application Date: 2008-07-31
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Publication No.: US08243988B1Publication Date: 2012-08-14
- Inventor: Ulrich Buddemeier
- Applicant: Ulrich Buddemeier
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract:
Methods for grouping images from image corpora using graph clustering are presented. In one embodiment, a method is presented where grouping of images from a collection of digital images is done by: representing regions of images as vertices in a graph; connecting each pair of matching-vertices with a matching-edge; connecting each pair of overlap-vertices with an overlap-edge; assigning weights to each said matching-edge and to each said overlap-edge; clustering the graph, wherein clustering generates one or more vertex-clusters; and grouping the digital images into visual-clusters based on the vertex-clusters. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also presented.
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