Invention Grant
US08897508B2 Method and apparatus to incorporate automatic face recognition in digital image collections
有权
在数字图像集合中引入自动人脸识别的方法和装置
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus to incorporate automatic face recognition in digital image collections
- Patent Title (中): 在数字图像集合中引入自动人脸识别的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13717426Application Date: 2012-12-17
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Publication No.: US08897508B2Publication Date: 2014-11-25
- Inventor: Hartwig Adam , Johannes Steffens , Keith Kiyohara , Harmut Neven , Brian Westphal , Tobias Magnusson , Gavin Doughtie , Henry Benjamin , Michael Horowitz , Hong-Kien Kenneth Ong
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Patent Law Works LLP
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06F7/00

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for creating and updating a facial image database from a collection of digital images is disclosed. A set of detected faces from a digital image collection is stored in a facial image database, along with data pertaining to them. At least one facial recognition template for each face in the first set is computed, and the images in the set are grouped according to the facial recognition template into similarity groups. Another embodiment is a naming tool for assigning names to a plurality of faces detected in a digital image collection. A facial image database stores data pertaining to facial images detected in images of a digital image collection. In addition, the naming tool may include a graphical user interface, a face detection module that detects faces in images of the digital image collection and stores data pertaining to the detected faces in the facial image database, a face recognition module that computes at least one facial recognition template for each facial image in the facial image database, and a similarity grouping module that groups facial images in the facial image database according to the respective templates such that similar facial images belong to one similarity group.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130251217A1 Method and Apparatus to Incorporate Automatic Face Recognition in Digital Image Collections Public/Granted day:2013-09-26
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