FIELD: information technologies.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to image search. Image processing method involves: identifying the first local image area and the second local image area; determining the first visual word associated with the first local image area and the second visual word associated with the second local image area; determining the composite parameter of visual characteristics associated with the desired image, herewith the composite parameter of visual characteristics comprises the first visual word and the second visual word and represents a set of at least two descriptors of two respective image areas and the areas ratio parameter, which characterises the ratio between two respective areas of the image; herewith the image indexing is performed by means of the said composite parameter of visual characteristics.
EFFECT: higher efficiency of searching images by the use of composite parameter of visual characteristics.
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