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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael Poplavski, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Schumacher, Porter Ranch, CA (US);
Prachi Snehal, San Jose, CA (US);
Sean J. Welleck, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Xia, Austin, TX (US);
Yinle Zhou, Austin, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Facial image bucketing is disclosed, whereby a query for facial image recognition compares the facial image against existing candidate images. Rather than comparing the facial image to each candidate image, the candidate images are organized or clustered into buckets according to their facial similarities, and the facial image is then compared to the image(s) in most-likely one(s) of the buckets. The organizing uses particular selected facial features, computes distance between the facial features, and selects ones of the computed distances to determine which facial images should be organized into the same bucket.