Patent ID: 11914638
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of selecting images from an image database digital images based on a user profile, the method comprising:
obtaining a set of reference images, wherein each of the reference images is associated with a category from a plurality of categories;
obtaining a user profile, wherein the user profile comprises an assignment probability for each category;
determining a set of selected reference images by probabilistic sampling of the set of reference images based on the assignment probabilities; and
selecting an image from the image database of images for each selected reference image, wherein a similarity metric between the image selected from the image database and the selected reference image meets a minimum selection similarity criterion, the similarity metric being determined based on a feature vector of the image selected from the image database and a feature vector of the selected reference image, wherein the feature vector of the image is associated to features of the image.