SUBJECT IMAGE SELECTING METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To select a representative image accurately representing a subject from documents sets collected per subject. SOLUTION: Images with which respective documents in a document cluster are linked are clustered to generate a plurality of image clusters of similar images, and an image cluster including the largest number of images is selected from the plurality of image clusters, and reliability of each image included in the selected image cluster is calculated, and an image having the highest reliability in the image cluster having the largest number of images is selected and outputted as an image representing the document cluster. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT