US Patents Awarded to Inventors of the Group:
8,995,725 On-site composition and aesthetics feedback through exemplars for photographers [2015]
8,781,175 On-site composition and aesthetics feedback through exemplars for photographers [2014]
8,755,596 Studying aesthetics in photographic images using a computational approach [July 17, 2014]
7,941,009 Real-time computerized annotation of pictures [May 10, 2011]
7,929,805 Image-based CAPTCHA generation system [April 19, 2011]
7,394,947 System and method for automatic linguistic indexing of images by a statistical modeling approach [July 1, 2008]
6,633,817 Sequence database search with sequence search trees [October 14, 2003]

US Patents Pending:
--/---,--- Perspective geometry based image segmentation and composition modeling [2014 provisional]
--/---,--- Instance-weighted mixture modeling to enhance training collections for image annotation [2014]
--/---,--- Parallel D2-clustering: Large-scale clustering of discrete distributions [2013]
13/963,039 Automatically computing emotions aroused from images through shape modeling [2013]
12/234,159 Tagging over time: Real-world image annotation by lightweight metalearning [September 19, 2008]