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US 2009/0022407 A1Published application
Method, apparatus and storage medium for image classification
AssigneeCanon Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
InventorsJianmin Wang, Xin Ji
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Abstract
In an image classification method, dividing an input image into blocks; obtaining block features of each block of the image; performing an evaluation of each block based on the block features thereof; obtaining image features based on the evaluations of the blocks of the image; and classifying the image based on the image features into pre-defined categories.
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An image classification method, comprising the steps of:
- dividing an input image into blocks;
- obtaining block features of each block of the image;
- performing an evaluation of each block based on the block features thereof;
- obtaining image features based on the evaluations of the blocks of the image;
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- classifying the image based on the image features into pre-defined categories.
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An image classification apparatus, comprising:
- image dividing means for dividing an input image into blocks;
- block feature obtaining means for obtaining the block features of each block of the image;
- block evaluating means for performing an evaluation of each block based on the block features thereof;
- image feature obtaining means for obtaining image features based on the evaluations of the blocks of the image;
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- image classification means for classifying the image based on the image features into pre-defined categories.
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