Finding images with multiple people or objects
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorAndrew Gallagher
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method of searching through a collection of images, includes providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals; detecting people in the collection images; determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals; and selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a number of collection images such that each individual from the list appears in the selected number of collection images.
Claims21
A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
- (a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
- (b) detecting people in the collection images;
- (c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals;
- and
- (d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a subset of one or more collection images such that at least two individuals from the list appear in the selected number of collection images.
The method of claim 12, wherein the likelihoods are updated based on the user input.
A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
- (a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
- (b) detecting people in the collection images;
- (c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals;
- (d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) one or more subset(s) of collection images such that each individual from the list appears in each subset of collection images;
- (e) displaying the one or more subsets of collection images to a user;
- and
- (f) the user selecting one of the subsets of collection images.
A method of determining the identities of individuals in images from an image collection having two or more individuals, comprising:
- (a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
- (b) detecting people in the collection images;
- (c) using a first classifier to determine the likelihood that a detected person is a particular individual from the list individuals of interest;
- and
- (d) using a second classifier and the likelihoods from c) to determine the likelihood that a particular image contains a particular individual from the list.
A method of determining the identities of individuals in images from an image collection having two or more individuals, comprising:
- (a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
- (b) detecting people in the collection images;
- (c) using a first classifier to determine the likelihood that a detected person is a particular individual from the list individuals of interest;
- and
- (d) using the likelihood(s) from c) and a rule that an individual cannot appear more than once in an image and can only be one individual from the list to determine the likelihood that a particular image contains a particular individual from the list.
A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
- (a) providing a list of objects of interest and features associated with such objects;
- (b) detecting objects in the collection images;
- (c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed object of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected objects and the features associated with the listed objects;
- and
- (d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a subset of one or more collection images such that each object from the list appears in the selected number of collection images.
A method of searching through a collection of images, comprising:
- (a) providing a list of individuals of interest and features associated with such individuals;
- (b) detecting people in the collection images;
- (c) determining the likelihood(s) for each listed individual of appearing in each collection image in response to the detected people and the features associated with the listed individuals;
- (d) selecting in response to the determined likelihood(s) a subset of one or more collection images;
- and
- (e) determining a likelihood that the selected number of images contains each of the individuals of interest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.