IDENTIFYING SET OF IMAGE CHARACTERISTICS FOR ASSESSING SIMILARITY OF IMAGES

摘要

The invention relates to a method (100) of and a system (200) for identifying a set of image characteristics for assessing similarity of images from a pool of image characteristics on the basis of a set of training images. The obtained set of image characteristics is especially useful for identifying images depicting similar objects. Advantageously, the identified set of image characteristics is human-oriented in the sense that it is based on human perception of image similarity thanks to the use of human rating as a reference for the machine rating of similarity of images. The invention further relates to a method of and a system for identifying a reference image from a database of images on the basis of similarity of the reference image to a given image using the set of image characteristics.