Patent Document ID: 20160155020
Application ID: 14557891
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: providing a universal generative model of local descriptors; adapting the universal generative model to a first camera to obtain a first camera-dependent generative model; adapting the universal generative model to a second camera to obtain a second camera-dependent generative model or using the universal generative model as the second camera-dependent generative model; from a first image captured by the first camera, extracting a first image-level descriptor using the first camera-dependent generative model; from a second image captured by the second camera, extracting a second image-level descriptor using the second camera-dependent generative model; computing a similarity between the first image-level descriptor and the second image-level descriptor; and outputting information based on the computed similarity, wherein at least one of the adapting the universal generative model to the first and second cameras, extracting the first and second image-level descriptors and the computing of the similarity is performed with a computer processor.