SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMILARITY SEARCH OF IMAGES

摘要

A system and method for an efficient semantic similarity search of images with a classification structure are provided. The system and method provide for building a semantic classification-search tree for the plurality of images (202), the classification tree including at least two categories of images, each category of images representing a subset of the plurality of images, receiving a query image (204), classifying the query image to select one of the at least two categories of images (208), and restricting the search for the image of interest using the query image to the selected one of the at least two categories of images (210).