Systems and Methods for Visual Object Matching

Patent №

US 8,577,131

Granted

2013-11-05

Filed 2011

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

5

ml · nlp · vision · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13181015

Systems and methods for improving visual object recognition by analyzing query images are disclosed. In one example, a visual object recognition module may determine query images matching objects of a training corpus utilized by the module. Matched query images may be added to the training corpus as training images of a matched object to expand the recognition of the object by the module. In another example, relevant candidate image corpora from a pool of image data may be automatically selected by matching the candidate image corpora against user query images. Selected image corpora may be added to a training corpus to improve recognition coverage. In yet another example, objects unknown to a visual object recognition module may be discovered by clustering query images. Clusters of similar query images may be annotated and added into a training corpus to improve recognition coverage.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Natural language1.00
Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.98
AI hardware0.86
Evolutionary computation0.05
Planning0.02
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 267030439

Assignors

LI, YUAN, ADAM, HARTWIG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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