Patent ID: 8326029
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising by a computer: determining a respective model of background color for each image in a set of images, wherein the determining comprises for each image in the set of images extracting a respective background sub-image from the image, segmenting the background sub-image into regions, and labeling each of the regions with a respective color label, wherein the determining additionally comprises for each image in the set of images: calculating a respective centroid and a respective size for ones of the labeled regions; and building the respective color model from the calculated centroids and the calculated sizes; generating an image query from a target color template; calculating for each image in the set of images a respective score from the image query and the respective color model for the image; and retrieving at least one of the images from an image collection based on the respective scores.