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US 2012/0072410 A1Published application
Image Search by Interactive Sketching and Tagging
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsChanghu Wang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang
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Abstract
Sketch and tagging based image search may include receiving a sketch query input and identifying an object in a desired image. The object or objects of the sketch query may be tagged with a text, and searching performed based on the objects. Certain implementations include indexing patches of the images, where the patches represent the objects. Relevant images can be returned based on the index of the patches.
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A system comprising:
- a processor in communication with computer-readable storage media;
- an index maintained in the computer-readable storage media, the index comprising patches of a plurality images that are indexed based on position of the patches of the images;
- a user interface component to receive a query sketch of at least one object representing at least one patch in the index of patches;
- and
- a matching component, maintained in the computer-readable storage media and executed on the processor, for matching images to the query sketch, and identifying at least one image of the plurality of images based the index of the patches.
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A method performed by a computing device comprising:
- receiving an query sketch of at least one object representing at least one patch in an index of patches;
- identifying images in a database that include the patches, wherein the patches are indexed by features and position in the images;
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- providing the identified images in response to the query sketch.
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A method performed by a computing device comprising:
- indexing a plurality of patches representing one or more objects in a plurality of images, based on position of the patches on the images;
- accessing one or more images of the plurality of images based on a sketch query identifying the one or more objects of the images;
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- presenting images from the plurality of images from the accessing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.