摘要 |
Managing images in an image database is described, comprising: when a query image is input, performing a match to determine whether an image similar to the query image exists within the database by comparing the images stored in the database with the query image; and if the image similar to the query image is a recognized image, providing at least one image in an image group to which the recognized image belongs and information thereon as a result, and if the image similar to the query image is an unrecognized image, providing at least one image in an image group to which the unrecognized image belongs as a result. When at least one image of the image group including the image similar to the query image is a recognized image, information on the corresponding recognized image is assigned to the images in the image group and provided as a result. |