Patent Document ID: 8676001
Application ID: 12119359
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for populating and updating a database of images of landmarks comprising: (a) geo-clustering geo-tagged images according to geographic proximity and irrespective of tags other than tags having geo-location codes or unique user identifiers associated with the geo-tagged images to generate one or more geo-clusters, wherein the geographic proximity is determined based upon geo-location codes of the respective geo-tagged images; and (b) visual-clustering respective ones of the generated one or more geo-clusters according to image similarity to generate one or more visual clusters for each of the generated one or more geo-clusters, wherein the generated one or more geo-clusters are input to the visual clustering without being selected using tags other than tags having geo-location codes or unique user identifiers, wherein said visual-clustering includes selecting visual clusters based on a region graph, wherein each node of the region graph corresponds to a respective image from the one or more geo-clusters and a link between two nodes of the region graph represents at least one matching feature between the respective images corresponding to the two nodes, and wherein respective connected subtrees of the region graph are selected as visual clusters.