US9063954B2
patent
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer pro grams encoded on computer storage media, for determining image search results. One of the methods includes generating a plurality of feature vectors for each image in a collection of images, wherein each feature vector is associated with an image tile of an image, wherein each feature vector corre sponds to one of a plurality of predetermined visual words. All images in the collection of images that share at least a threshold number of matching visual words associated with matching image tiles are classified as near-duplicate images.
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