Scene classification for place recognition
First Claim
1. A method of classifying an image, comprising:
- receiving an image and metadata of the image from a user device;
performing a first classification of the image using only the metadata to determine whether the image is a place;
performing a second classification of the image using both the metadata and information about the image to determine whether the image is the place; and
if either the first or second classification determines that the image is of the place, then providing place information to the user device;
wherein if neither the first nor the second classification determines that the image is of the place, then the method further comprises performing filtering to determine whether the image is of an object or a person.
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Abstract
Aspects of the invention pertain to identifying whether or not an image from a user'"'"'s device is of a place. Before undertaking time and resource consuming analysis of an image using specialized image analysis modules, pre-filtering classification is conducted based on image data and metadata associated with the image. The metadata may include geolocation information. One classification procedure analyzes the metadata to perform a high level determination as to whether the image is of a place. If the results indicate that it is of a place, then a further classification procedure may be performed, where the image information is analyzed, with or without the metadata. This process may be done concurrently with a place match filtering procedure. The results of the further classification will either find a match with a given place or not. The output is a place match either with or without geolocation information.
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16 Claims
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1. A method of classifying an image, comprising:
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receiving an image and metadata of the image from a user device; performing a first classification of the image using only the metadata to determine whether the image is a place; performing a second classification of the image using both the metadata and information about the image to determine whether the image is the place; and if either the first or second classification determines that the image is of the place, then providing place information to the user device; wherein if neither the first nor the second classification determines that the image is of the place, then the method further comprises performing filtering to determine whether the image is of an object or a person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus for classifying an image, the apparatus comprising:
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means for communicating with a mobile user device; and at least one processor coupled to the communicating means, the at least one processor configured to; receive an image and metadata of the image from a user device; store the image and metadata in memory; perform a first classification of the image using only the metadata to determine whether the image is a place; and perform a second classification of the image using both the metadata and information about the image to determine whether the image is the place; wherein if either the first or second classification determines that the image is of the place, then the processor is configured to provide place information to the user device; and wherein if neither the first nor the second classification determines that the image is of the place, then the processor is further configured to perform filtering to determine whether the image is of an object or a person. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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