Inferring the gender of a face in an image
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, by a computing system, images that display a particular visible physical feature for multiple people displayed in the images;
determining, by the computing system, similarities in appearance among the particular visible physical features for at least some of the people displayed in the images;
for each person in at least a subset of the people displayed in the images;
identifying one or more people displayed in the images whose particular visible physical feature is determined to be similar to the particular visible physical feature of the person,identifying a respective classification for the particular visible physical feature of each of the one or more people, anddetermining a classification for the particular visible physical feature of the person based on the respective classifications for the particular visible physical features of the one or more people whose particular visible physical feature is determined to be similar to the particular visible physical feature of the person; and
outputting, by the computing system, information that characterizes the classification of the particular visible physical feature determined for at least one of the people displayed in the images.
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Abstract
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a plurality of images having human faces. The method further includes generating a data structure having representations of the faces and associations that link the representations based on similarities in appearance between the faces. The method further includes outputting a first gender value for a first representation of a first face that indicates a gender of the first face based on one or more other gender values of one or more other representations of one or more other faces that are linked to the first representation.
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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receiving, by a computing system, images that display a particular visible physical feature for multiple people displayed in the images; determining, by the computing system, similarities in appearance among the particular visible physical features for at least some of the people displayed in the images; for each person in at least a subset of the people displayed in the images; identifying one or more people displayed in the images whose particular visible physical feature is determined to be similar to the particular visible physical feature of the person, identifying a respective classification for the particular visible physical feature of each of the one or more people, and determining a classification for the particular visible physical feature of the person based on the respective classifications for the particular visible physical features of the one or more people whose particular visible physical feature is determined to be similar to the particular visible physical feature of the person; and outputting, by the computing system, information that characterizes the classification of the particular visible physical feature determined for at least one of the people displayed in the images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer program product tangibly embodied in one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices that, when executed by one or more processors, causes performance of operations comprising:
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receiving, by a computing system, images that display a particular visible physical feature for multiple people displayed in the images; determining, by the computing system, similarities in appearance among the particular visible physical features for at least some of the people displayed in the images; for each person in at least a subset of the people displayed in the images; identifying one or more people displayed in the images whose particular visible physical feature is determined to be similar to the particular visible physical feature of the person, identifying a respective classification for the particular visible physical feature of each of the one or more people, and determining a classification for the particular visible physical feature of the person based on the respective classifications for the particular visible physical features of the one or more people whose particular visible physical feature is determined to be similar to the particular visible physical feature of the person; and outputting, by the computing system, information that characterizes the classification of the particular visible physical feature determined for at least one of the people displayed in the images. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system comprising:
one or more computers configured to provide; an image repository to store a plurality of images; a visible physical feature detector to identify respective visible physical features among people displayed in the plurality of images; a similarity calculator to determine similarities in appearance among representations of the visible physical features of the people displayed in the images; a graph generator to link the representations of the visible physical features based on the determined similarities in appearance among the representations of the visible physical features; and a classification generator to determine classification values for particular ones of the representations of the visible physical features based on the determined similarities in appearance among the particular representations of the visible physical features and other ones of the representations of the visible physical features that are linked to the particular representations, wherein the classification values indicate a likelihood that respective ones of the people displayed in the plurality of images corresponding to the representations of the visible physical features have a particular visually discernible characteristic.
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