Location recognition using informative feature vocabulary trees
US7945576B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 29, 2007 |
| Grant date | May 17, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 14, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/9024
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A location recognition technique that involves using a query image to identify a depicted location is presented. In addition to the query image, there is also a pre-constructed database of features which are associated with images of known locations. The technique matches features derived from the query image to the database features using a specialized vocabulary tree, which is referred to as an informative feature vocabulary tree. The informative feature vocabulary tree is specialized because it was generated using just those database features that have been deemed informative of known locations. The aforementioned matching features are used to identify a known location image that matches the query image. The location associated with that known location image is then deemed to be the location depicted in the query image.
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