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Determining identity in an image that has multiple people

US11409789B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 11, 2019
Grant dateAug 9, 2022
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Expiry dateJun 4, 2040

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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 images of people. In embodiments, a query feature representation that represents features is extracted from each image of a person. In embodiments, each query feature representation is compared to image feature representations in a database and a set of candidate representations is selected among the image feature representations. Then, a set of user accounts that is associated with the set of candidate representations is selected. The strengths of connection in a network between user accounts in a set of candidate user accounts corresponding to an image and user accounts in a different set of candidate user accounts corresponding to a different 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 images.

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