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AssigneeHitachi High-Tech Corporation
InventorsSota KOMATSU, Masayoshi ISHIKAWA, Fumihiro BEKKU, Takefumi KAKINUMA
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The objective of the present invention is to provide an image classification device and a method therefor with which suitable teaching data can be created. An image classification device that carries out image classification using images which are in a class to be classified and include teaching information, and images which are in a class not to be classified and to which teaching information has not been assigned, said image classification device being characterized by being provided with: an image group input unit for receiving inputs of an image group belonging to a class to be classified and an image group belonging to a class not to be classified; and a subclassification unit for extracting a feature amount for each image in an image group, clustering the feature amounts of the images in the image group belonging to a class not to be classified, and thereby dividing the images into sub-classes.
An image classification device that performs image classification using images of a classification target class that include teaching information, and images of a non-classification target class to which the teaching information is not assigned, the image classification device comprising:
An image classification method for performing image classification using images of a classification target class that include teaching information, and images of a non-classification target class to which the teaching information is not assigned, the image classification method comprising:
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