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Object retrieval

  • US 20050225678A1
  • Filed: 04/08/2004
  • Published: 10/13/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of identifying a user-specified object contained in one or more images of a plurality of images, the method comprising defining regions of objects in said images, computing a vector in respect of each of said regions based on the appearance of the respective region, each said vector comprising a descriptor, vector quantizing said descriptors into clusters, storing said clusters as an index with the images in which they occur, defining regions of said user-specified object, computing a vector in respect of each of said regions based on the appearance of said regions, each said vector comprising a descriptor, and vector quantizing said descriptors into said clusters, searching said index and identifying which of said plurality of images contains said clusters so as to return the images containing said user-defined object.

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