Patent Document ID: 20130142423
Application ID: 13700820
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method performed using a physical computer system ( 740 ) comprising at least one processor ( 742 ) for generating a personal clothing model ( 300 , 404 ) for use in classifying an image ( 12 , 50 ) comprising: generating ( 16 ), using the computer system ( 740 ), clothing feature data representative of at least one clothing feature using clothing region data representative of clothing regions ( 52 ) detected in each image of a subset of images from a collection of images, each clothing region ( 52 ) being associated with a same clothing worn by a same person that appears in each image of the subset of images; and training ( 18 ), using the computer system ( 740 ), a discriminative clothing classifier using the clothing feature data to generate at least one personal clothing model ( 300 , 404 ), wherein the at least one personal clothing model ( 300 , 404 ), for use in classifying the image ( 12 , 50 ), corresponds to the clothing.