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Facial recognition with social network aiding

  • US 10,031,927 B2
  • Filed: 11/02/2015
  • Issued: 07/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • receiving, from a client device, a visual query comprising one or more images;

    identifying an object or object category associated with the one or more images of the visual query;

    identifying visual similarity criteria associated with the identified object or object category associated with the one or more images of the visual query;

    determining candidate image matches that are indicated as matching the one or more images of the visual query based on the visual similarity criteria associated with the object or object category;

    in response to determining candidate image matches that are indicated as matching the one or more images of the visual query based on the visual similarity criteria, determining one or more measures of visual similarity between the respective one or more images of the visual query and each of the plurality of potential image matches;

    ranking each of the candidate image matches in accordance with the one or more measures of visual similarity between the respective one or more images of the visual query and each of the candidate image matches, wherein ranking each of the candidate image matches is further based on social connection data from a social graph; and

    providing at least one image from the ranking of candidate image matches to the client device as a related image based on the visual query.

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