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Determining identities of multiple people in a digital image

US10552471B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 21, 2017
Grant dateFeb 4, 2020
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V40/172
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for identifying people in an image that contains more than one face images. In embodiments, a query feature vector that represents features is extracted from each face image. In embodiments, each query feature vector is compared to image feature vectors in a database and a set of candidate vectors is selected among the image feature vectors. Then, a set of user accounts that is associated with the set of candidate vectors is selected. The strengths of connection in a network between user accounts in a set of candidate user accounts corresponding to a face image and user accounts in a different set of candidate user accounts corresponding to a different face image may be determined. In embodiments, user accounts that has the highest strength of connection are selected and used to identify the persons corresponding to the face images.

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