Determining identity in an image that has multiple people
US11409789B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 11, 2019 |
| Grant date | Aug 9, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 4, 2040 |
Classification
- 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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