Knowledge Base Image Recommendation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Consumers often delete digital images due to framing or subject issues, and there is a continuous search for new and interesting subjects for photography, as existing technologies lack effective solutions for improving image quality and suggesting improvements.

Innovation Solution

A knowledge base image recommendation system that extracts administrative and descriptive metadata from digital images using machine learning algorithms, determines a digital image quality score, and provides recommendations for improvement by traversing a knowledge graph to identify common characteristics with higher-quality images in a communal database.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users capture digital images with mobile devices, then image quantity increases, but image quality and subject selection deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage capture quantityVSAvoidimage quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides automated feedback by analyzing captured images through machine learning algorithms, generating quality scores and actionable recommendations. This feedback loop helps users understand what makes an image high-quality and guides them to improve their photography skills, thus maintaining image quality despite increased capture volume.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically evaluating images and providing personalized recommendations without requiring expert intervention. The machine learning model autonomously analyzes framing, composition, and subject matter, delivering guidance that empowers users to independently improve their photography.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Quantity of substance

If users delete images with framing or subject issues, then storage space is preserved, but learning opportunities are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestored image quantityVSAvoidphotography learning value
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system converts potentially harmful low-quality images into beneficial learning opportunities. By analyzing and providing feedback on images that would otherwise be deleted, users gain valuable insights into common photography mistakes and how to avoid them, transforming wasted storage space into educational value.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of images before users make deletion decisions. By providing quality assessments and recommendations upfront, users can retain images with potential for improvement and learn from them, rather than prematurely deleting images that could serve as learning examples.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If a knowledge base system analyzes images using machine learning, then image quality assessment improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage quality assessment accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by focusing machine learning analysis on specific critical aspects of image quality such as framing, composition, and subject matter, rather than analyzing every possible attribute. This selective approach maintains assessment accuracy while reducing processing time compared to comprehensive analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11722765B2Knowledge base image recommendations
Publication Date: 2023.08.08 HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP
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AI summary

In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a device, method, and storage medium. The device comprises a processor and memory with instructions to receive a digital image and extract administrative and descriptive metadata. The device stores the administrative and descriptive metadata in a knowledge base and determines a digital image quality score. The device creates a recommendation based on the administrative and descriptive metadata and the digital image quality score.