Patent ID: 8620078

Claim:
A method for determining a class associated with an image, the method comprising: determining a segmentation score for an image segment based on a comparison of the image segment and a region of an image, the region of the image associated with the image segment; determining a confidence score for the image segment based on the segmentation score and a classification score, the classification score indicative of a similarity between the image segment and at least one class; determining a class associated with the image based on the confidence score; outputting the class associated with the image; determining a second segmentation score for a second image segment based on a comparison of the second image segment and a second region of the image, the second region of the image associated with the second image segment; and determining a second confidence score for the second image segment based on the second segmentation score and a second classification score, the second classification score indicative of a similarity between the second image segment and at least one class.