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Automated image retrieval with graph neural network

US11809486B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 31, 2022
Grant dateNov 7, 2023
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Expiry dateAug 31, 2042

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06N3/09
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A content retrieval system uses a graph neural network architecture to determine images relevant to an image designated in a query. The graph neural network learns a new descriptor space that can be used to map images in the repository to image descriptors and the query image to a query descriptor. The image descriptors characterize the images in the repository as vectors in the descriptor space, and the query descriptor characterizes the query image as a vector in the descriptor space. The content retrieval system obtains the query result by identifying a set of relevant images associated with image descriptors having above a similarity threshold with the query descriptor.

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