Patent ID: 8392430

Claim:
A computer-implemented process for creating a synthesized image by employing a concept-structured image search query, comprising: using a computing device for, (a) specifying a concept-structured query that comprises keywords and location of a concept for each keyword in an image; (b) performing a text-based image search of an image set using the specified keywords; (c) selecting groups of representative images from the image set for each of the specified keywords; (d) performing concept-specific image center selection for each of the selected groups of representative images for each keyword to find the semantic centers of each of the groups of the representative images; and (e) synthesizing an image that is in accordance with the specified location of the concept of each keyword by placing a representative image that best represents the selected group at the specified location of the concept of each keyword in the synthesized image, using the synthesized image to rank images returned in an image search, (f) performing feature extraction for the synthesized image; (g) performing image ranking of images returned in the image search by comparing the features of the synthesized image to the features of each of the images returned in the image search; and (h) outputting a ranked list of the images of the image set that are ranked in accordance with how similar the images returned in the image search are to the synthesized image.