SIMILAR INFORMATION CLASSIFICATION AND REFERENCE DEVICE, AND SIMILAR INFORMATION CLASSIFICATION AND REFERENCE METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a similar information classification and reference device or method capable of classifying or retrieving a large quantity of images efficiently, and automatically or through user operation.;SOLUTION: The similar information classification and reference device 1 constituted of a resolution reduction information generating section 11, a resolution reduction information storage section 12, a self-organization processing section 13, and a processing result storage section 14 performs clustering of a resolution-reduced image group accompanied by a learning process in self-organization processing, while increasing resolution, and sequentially repeats similar self-organization processing for the resolution-reduced image group divided by clustering.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT