METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING IMAGES

• Main Authors: ZHANG, HONGMING, RU, XINFENG, LIU, RUITAO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 08.06.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for searching images, a system for searching images, and a computer program product for searching images. A method for searching images is provided. The method includes receiving an input query image, extracting visual features from the inputted query image; determining a similarity of the visual features of the query image and visual features of images in an image database; determining category information, descriptive information, or a combination thereof associated with the query image based on category information, descriptive information, or a combination thereof of business objects corresponding to images having a similarity to the query image that complies with a precondition; conducting searches of the images based on the query image and the category information, the descriptive information, or a combination thereof associated with the query image; and returning search results.