Google's Automatic Face Recognition in Digital Image Collections Patents
Google is truly a innovative company. The company's recently published patent US20090252383 is imaging. The invention relate to integrating automatic face recognition into organization of digital image collections. Facial images are detected in images from a collection of digital images. The detected facial images are grouped into similarity groups based on a facial recognition template computed for each of the detected facial images. The detected facial images are displayed to the user in similarity groups, and user input is received to confirm or reject individual facial images in each of the displayed similarity groups. Each of the similarity groups are updated based on the received user input, and the updated similarity groups are stored in a facial image database.
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