Patent ID: 9721188
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method to detect landmarks in digital images, comprising: assigning, by one or more processors, to one or more images in a plurality of text-associated digital images, a text tag descriptive of a landmark feature, wherein the text tag is based upon one or more n-grams from one or more texts associated with the one or more images, wherein the n-grams are scored based on image-name links between the one or more n-grams and the one or more images, wherein each of the image-name links is a variable indicative of whether the one or more n-grams are included in text tags of the one or more images; building an appearance model for the landmark feature based on the assigned text tag descriptive of the landmark feature; and detecting the landmark feature in a different image using the appearance model.