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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2016
Shutterfly, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Roman Sandler, Haifa, IL;
Alexander M. Kenis, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Shutterfly, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for sorting face images of different individuals into different groups includes obtaining face images comprising faces of unknown individuals by a computer processor; calculating similarity functions between pairs of face images by the computer processor; joining face images that have values of the similarity functions above a predetermined threshold into a hypothetical face group, wherein the face images in the hypothetical face group hypothetically belong to a same person; conducting non-negative matrix factorization on values of the similarity functions in the hypothetical face group to test truthfulness of the hypothetical face group; and identifying the hypothetical face group as a true face group if a percentage of the associated similarity functions being true is above a threshold based on the non-negative matrix factorization.