US Patent:
20180018390, Jan 18, 2018
Inventors:
- Mountain View CA, US
Jyoti Sood - Redwood City CA, US
Kamal Tiwari - Fremont CA, US
Amitabh Saikia - Mountain View CA, US
Venkatesh Manickavasagam - Mountain View CA, US
Yilin Xiong - Beijing, CN
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium determining image relevance responsive to a search query. In one aspect, a method includes, for each resource in a plurality of resources, wherein each resource includes one or more images and text that is separate from each of the one or more images: determining, by a data processing apparatus, and from the text of the resource, resource topics described by the text of the resource. For each of the one or more images, processing the image to determine a set of image topics that describe topics to which content depicted in the image belongs. Determining, by the data process apparatus, one or more topic match scores, wherein each topic match score is a measure of relevance one or more of the image topics of the image to one or more of the resource topics of the resource.