Patent ID: 8861873

Claim:
A method performed using a physical computer system comprising at least one processor for use in classifying images comprising: generating, using the computer system, clothing feature data representative of at least one clothing feature using clothing region data representative of clothing regions detected in each image of a set of images; generating, using the computer system, a cluster ensemble set comprising a plurality of partitions, wherein each partition comprises a clustering of the images performed independently of the other partitions based on a clothing feature or a combination of clothing features, and the generating of the cluster ensemble set comprises for each pair of clothing regions detected, computing a respective distance measure between the clothing feature data associated with the clothing regions to generate a distance matrix comprising the computed distance measures, and based on the distance matrix computing partitions of the cluster ensemble set having different numbers of constituent clusters; and applying, using the computer system, a cluster consensus function to combine the plurality of partitions to generate a consensus clothing clustering of the set of images, wherein the consensus clothing clustering shares nonzero mutual information with each partition of the plurality of partitions.