Patent ID: 8045800
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of segmenting images, comprising: comparing similarity of images in a set of images; selecting a group of images from the set of images, wherein the images in the group of images are selected based on compared similarities among the images; selecting from the group of images an informative image; receiving user-defined semantic information of the informative image; modeling the group of images as a graph, wherein each image in the group of images denotes a node in the graph, and wherein edges of the graph denote a foreground relationship between images or a background relationship between images; and automatically segmenting one or more images in the group of images by propagating the semantic information of the informative image to images in the group of images having a corresponding graph node that is related to a graph node corresponding to the informative image.