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Tag Suggestions for Images on Online Social Networks

  • US 20130262588A1
  • Filed: 05/30/2013
  • Published: 10/03/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising, by a computing device:

  • accessing an image associated with an online social network, wherein the image portrays at least a first person;

    accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them, the nodes comprising;

    a first node corresponding to the image; and

    a plurality of second nodes corresponding to a plurality of users associated with the online social network, respectively;

    determining a social-graph affinity for each user from a first set of users of the plurality of users;

    determining, for each user in the first set of users, a facial-recognition score with respect to the first person portrayed in the image, wherein the facial-recognition score is based at least in part on;

    the social-graph affinity determined for each user of the first set of users; and

    a facial-representation associated with each user of the first set of users, wherein the facial-representation associated with each user is compared with the image; and

    generating one or more tag suggestions for the first person portrayed in the image based on the determined facial-recognition scores, wherein each tag suggestion corresponds to a particular user of the first set of users.

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