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SYSTEM FOR SECURE FACE IDENTIFICATION (SCIFI) AND METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH

  • US 20110026781A1
  • Filed: 07/01/2010
  • Published: 02/03/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for privacy-retaining face identification comprising:

  • dividing at least one input face into a first set of patches;

    providing an assortment of patch profiles for each patch in said first set of patches, each patch profile in said assortment being associated with a unique index thereby to define an assortment of unique indices;

    for each individual patch in the input face, finding at least one patch profile within said assortment of patch profiles which most resembles said individual patch, thereby to define a first set of indices from among said assortment of unique indices whose corresponding patch profiles most resemble said input face'"'"'s patches respectively; and

    using a privacy preserving computation to generate a physical output indicative of a comparison of said input face and at least one target face by comparing first and second functions of said first set of indices and of a second set of indices respectively, said second set of indices corresponding to patch profiles which most resemble a second set of patches into which said target face has been divided.

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