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Automatic discovery of popular landmarks

A technology of landmarks, geography, applied in the field of popular landmarks, which can solve the problem of not automatically extracting known systems, etc.

Active Publication Date: 2011-06-08
GOOGLE LLC
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[0004] However, there is no known system that can automatically extract information such as the most popular tourist destinations from these large collections

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[0023] While the invention is described herein with reference to illustrative embodiments for particular applications, it should be understood that the invention is not limited thereto. Those skilled in the art, using the teachings herein, will recognize additional modifications, applications, and embodiments within the scope of the invention, as well as additional fields in which the invention will find substantial utility.

[0024] The present invention includes methods and systems for automatically identifying and classifying objects in digital images. For example, embodiments of the invention may identify, classify, and rank the most popular tourist landmarks based on collections of digital images accessible on the Internet. The method and system of the present invention may enable efficient maintenance of an up-to-date list and collection of images of the most popular tourist locations, where the popularity of a tourist location may be estimated by the number of images of...

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In one embodiment the present invention is a method for populating and updating a database of images of landmarks including geo-clustering geo-tagged images according to geographic proximity to generate one or more geo-clusters, and visual-clustering the one or more geo-clusters according to image similarity to generate one or more visual clusters. In another embodiment, the present invention is a system for identifying landmarks from digital images, including the following components: a database of geo-tagged images; a landmark database; a geo-clustering module; and a visual clustering module. In other embodiments the present invention may be a method of enhancing user queries to retrieve images of landmarks, or a method of automatically tagging a new digital image with text labels.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to collections of digital images, and more particularly to identifying popular landmarks in large collections of digital images. Background technique [0002] With the increased use of digital images, the increased capacity and availability of digital storage media, and the interconnectivity provided by digital transmission media such as the Internet, ever larger libraries of digital images are accessible to ever larger groups of people. People with a wide range of interests from various locations throughout the world take photographs of various subjects and make those photographs available, for example, on the Internet. For example, digital photos of various landmarks and tourist locations from around the world can be taken by people with different skill levels in taking the photos and posted on the web. Photos may show the same landmark taken from different angles, and from the same or different distances. ...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F17/30
CPCG06F17/30241G06F17/30265G06F17/30268G06F16/58G06F16/29G06T7/97G06F16/5838G06F16/51G06F16/5846G06F16/5866G06F16/587G06F16/583G06F3/04842G06F7/08
Inventor 费尔南多·A·布鲁切尔乌尔里希·布德迈尔哈特维希·亚当哈特姆特·内文
Owner GOOGLE LLC
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