SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ATTRIBUTE-BASED VISUAL SEARCH OVER A COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORK

A visual search system comprised of a computing device, the computing device including an image processing engine for generating a feature vector representing a user-selected object in an image input, an object detection engine for locating one or more objects in the image input and for determining a category of a user-selected object from objects in the image input, the object detection engine using the category to generate a plurality of attributes for the user-selected object, a product data store for storing a plurality of tables storing one or more attributes associated with a category of the user-selected object, an attribute generation engine for generating a plurality of attribute options for each of the attributes of the user-selected object, and an attribute matching engine for comparing attributes and attribute options of the user-selected object with attributes and attribute options of visually similar products and images.