System and process for building a catalog using visual objects

A method for building a catalog using visual objects, comprising:

• obtaining a group of records having a representative image and a representative text label representing the group, wherein each one of the records comprises at least one object image of an object and at least one textual field associated with the object image;
• applying a filter function to the records to yield filtering out any of the records in which the object image or the textual field exhibits a visual similarity or a visual similarity combined with a textual similarity below a specified threshold with the representative image or the representative text respectively;
• adding the representative image and the representative text label to as a catalog item representing the object in a catalog having a plurality of catalog items;
• and
• displaying the catalog as part of a user interface at a user terminal;
• wherein at least one of:
• the obtaining and the applying are executed by at least one processor;
• wherein the visual similarity provides a measure of resemblances between two visual objects based on local descriptors in the visual objects.

A method for building a catalog using visual objects, comprising:

• clustering a plurality of records into a plurality of clusters, each record having at least one object image and at least one text field, wherein at least one image is selected to be a representative image of the records;
• calculating a visual similarity between the representative image and the objects images of the records;
• labeling each cluster of the plurality of clusters with a label by applying a dictionary function to the textual fields of each cluster of the plurality of clusters;
• replacing the representative image when the visual similarity is below a specified threshold;
• and
• building a catalog wherein each cluster of the plurality of clusters is represented by the respective label and the respective replaced representative image;
• displaying the catalog as part of a user interface at a user terminal;
• wherein the visual similarity provides a measure of resemblances between two visual objects based on local descriptors in the visual objects.

A system for building a catalog using visual objects, comprising:

• a clustering module configured to cluster a plurality of records, each record comprises at least one object image and at least one textual field associated with the object, to yield a plurality of clusters such that the object images in each cluster exhibit between them a visual similarity above a specified value;
• and
• an associating module configured to associate each cluster of the plurality of clusters with at least one representative image selected from the respective object images
• a labeling module adapted to associate each cluster of the plurality of clusters with a label, the label is generated by applying a dictionary function to the textual fields of each cluster, wherein the label reflects a common semantic factor of the textual fields of each cluster, wherein the common semantic factor has a value above a specified threshold,
• a category dictionary module adapted to select a category dictionary for each cluster of the plurality of clusters based on the textual fields of each cluster of the plurality of clusters;
• wherein the labeling module is adapted to edit each label by omitting or adding words based on a respective selected category dictionary;
• a user terminal module adapted to display a catalog presenting each of least some of the plurality clusters by the respective representative image and the respective label;
• wherein each label is a name for a cluster of records, wherein each record is comprised of fields such as text, numeric fields, logical fields, hyperlinks and visual objects,
• wherein an address of a file or content on a computer network, wherein at one of the modules is executed by at least one processor;
• wherein the visual similarity provides a measure of resemblances between two visual objects based on local descriptors in the visual objects.

A system for building a catalog using visual objects, comprising:

• an obtaining module configured to obtain a group of records having at least one of a representative image and a representative text representing the group, wherein each one of the records comprises at least one object image and at least one textual field associated with the object image;
• and
• a filtering module configured to apply a filter function to the records to yield filtering out any of the records in which the object image or the textual field exhibits a visual similarity or a visual similarity combined with a textual similarity below a specified threshold with the representative image or the representative text respectively, wherein at least one of the modules is executed by at least one processor;
• a labeling module adapted to associate a label with the group of records by Applying a dictionary function to the textual fields of the group of records;
• a client terminal module adapted to display the representative image and the respective label as a catalog item in a catalog having a plurality of catalog items;
• wherein the visual similarity provides a measure of resemblances between two visual objects based on local descriptors in the visual objects.

A system for building a catalog using visual objects, comprising:

• an obtaining module configured to obtain a plurality of records, each record having at least one object image and at least one text field, wherein at least one image is selected to be a representative image of the records;
• a calculating module configured to calculate a visual similarity between the representative image and the objects images of the records;
• and
• a replacement module configured to replace the representative image when the visual similarity is below a specified threshold;
• a category dictionary module adapted to select a category dictionary based on at least one word in the at least one textual field;
• a labeling module adapted to associate a label with the representative image by applying a dictionary function to the at least one textual field and to edit the label by omitting or adding words based on a respective selected category dictionary;
• user interface module adapted to display the representative image and the label as a catalog item in a catalog having a plurality of catalog items;
• wherein the visual similarity provides a measure of resemblances between two visual objects based on local descriptors in the visual objects.

A computer program product for building a catalog using visual objects, the computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium which comprises:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program embodied therewith, the computer readable program comprising:
• computer readable program configured to cluster a plurality of records, each record comprises at least one object image and at least one textual field associated with the object, to yield a plurality of clusters such that the object images in each cluster exhibit between them a visual similarity above a specified value;
• and
• computer readable program configured to obtaining a representative image of each cluster of the plurality of clusters;
• computer readable program configured to label each cluster with a label by applying a dictionary function to the textual fields of each cluster;
• computer readable program configured to select a category dictionary for each cluster of the plurality of clusters based on the textual fields of each cluster of the plurality of clusters;
• computer readable program configured to edit each label by omitting or adding words based on a respective selected category dictionary;
• computer readable program configured to display a catalog wherein each cluster of the plurality of clusters in represented by the representative image and the respective label;
• wherein the label reflects a common semantic factor of the textual fields of each cluster, wherein the common semantic factor has a value above a specified threshold.

A computer program product for building a catalog using visual objects, the computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium which comprises:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program embodied therewith, the computer readable program comprising:
• computer readable program configured to obtain a group of records having at least one of a representative image and a representative text representing the group, wherein each one of the records comprises at least one object image and at least one textual field associated with the object image;
• and
• computer readable program configured to apply a filter function to the records to yield filtering out any of the records in which the object image or the textual field exhibits a visual similarity or a textual similarity below a specified threshold with the representative image or the representative text respectively;
• computer readable program configured to display the representative image and the representative text as a catalog item in a catalog having a plurality of catalog items;
• wherein the catalog is displayed by a user interface at a user terminal;
• wherein the visual similarity provides a measure of resemblances between two visual objects based on local descriptors in the visual objects.