Finding images with multiple people or objects
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1. A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
- (a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
(b) detecting people in the collection images;
(c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals; and
(d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a subset of one or more collection images such that at least two individuals from the list appear in the selected number of collection images.
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Abstract
A method of searching through a collection of images, includes providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals; detecting people in the collection images; determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals; and selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a number of collection images such that each individual from the list appears in the selected number of collection images.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
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(a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
(b) detecting people in the collection images;
(c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals; and
(d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a subset of one or more collection images such that at least two individuals from the list appear in the selected number of collection images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. The method of claim 12, wherein the likelihoods are updated based on the user input.
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13. A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
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(a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
(b) detecting people in the collection images;
(c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals;
(d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) one or more subset(s) of collection images such that each individual from the list appears in each subset of collection images;
(e) displaying the one or more subsets of collection images to a user; and
(f) the user selecting one of the subsets of collection images. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. A method of determining the identities of individuals in images from an image collection having two or more individuals, comprising:
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(a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
(b) detecting people in the collection images;
(c) using a first classifier to determine the likelihood that a detected person is a particular individual from the list individuals of interest; and
(d) using a second classifier and the likelihoods from c) to determine the likelihood that a particular image contains a particular individual from the list.
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17. A method of determining the identities of individuals in images from an image collection having two or more individuals, comprising:
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(a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
(b) detecting people in the collection images;
(c) using a first classifier to determine the likelihood that a detected person is a particular individual from the list individuals of interest; and
(d) using the likelihood(s) from c) and a rule that an individual cannot appear more than once in an image and can only be one individual from the list to determine the likelihood that a particular image contains a particular individual from the list.
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18. A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
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(a) providing a list of objects of interest and features associated with such objects;
(b) detecting objects in the collection images;
(c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed object of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected objects and the features associated with the listed objects; and
(d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a subset of one or more collection images such that each object from the list appears in the selected number of collection images. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
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(a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
(b) detecting people in the collection images;
(c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals;
(d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a subset of one or more collection images; and
(e) determining a likelihood that the selected number of images contains each of the individuals of interest.
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