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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dan Barak, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yaniv N. Taigman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gil Hirsch, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jorn Martinus Johannes van Dijk, Amsterdam, NL;
Dirk John Stoop, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an image portraying at least a first person, accessing a social graph, determining a social-graph affinity for a first set of users, determining a facial-recognition scores for the first set of users based on the social-graph affinity for each user and a facial-representation associated with each user, where the facial-representation for 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 facial-recognition scores.