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US 2016/0103852 A1Published application
Auto Tagging in Geo-Social Networking System
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorErick Tseng
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a social networking system automatically tags one or more users to an image file by creating a list of potential matches, and selecting a subset of potential matches based on location, asking a first user to confirm the subset of potential matches, and tagging one or more matched users to the image file.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- by a computing device, accessing a social-networking information item and a media file associated with a first user, wherein attributes of the social-networking information item comprise a list identifying one or more second users associated with the social-networking information item;
- by the computing device, determining based on a facial-recognition algorithm a matching score of each of one or more of the second users to each of one or more faces in the media file;
- by the computing device, for each of the second users with a matching score above a threshold value to a face in the media file:
- comparing first spatio-temporal information of the media file with second spatio-temporal information of the second user;
- and
- adjusting the matching score of the second user to the face based on the comparison;
- by the computing device, determining one or more potential matches between the second users and the faces in the media file based on the adjusted matching scores;
- and
- by the computing device, tagging the media file with information identifying the social-networking information item based on one or more of the potential matches between the second users and the faces in the media file.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
- access a social-networking information item and a media file associated with a first user, wherein attributes of the social-networking information item comprise a list identifying one or more second users associated with the social-networking information item;
- determine based on a facial-recognition algorithm a matching score of each of one or more of the second users to each of one or more faces in the media file;
- for each of the second users with a matching score above a threshold value to a face in the media file:
- compare first spatio-temporal information of the media file with second spatio-temporal information of the second user;
- and
- adjust the matching score of the second user to the face based on the comparison;
- determine one or more potential matches between the second users and the faces in the media file based on the adjusted matching;
- and
- tag the media file with information identifying the social-networking information item based on one or more of the potential matches between the second users and the faces in the media file.
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One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed by one or more computing devices to:
- access a social-networking information item and a media file associated with a first user, wherein attributes of the social-networking information item comprise a list identifying one or more second users associated with the social-networking information item;
- determine based on a facial-recognition algorithm a matching score of each of one or more of the second users to each of one or more faces in the media file;
- for each of the second users with a matching score above a threshold value to a face in the media file:
- compare first spatio-temporal information of the media file with second spatio-temporal information of the second user;
- and
- adjust the matching score of the second user to the face based on the comparison;
- determine one or more potential matches between the second users and the faces in the media file based on the adjusted matching scores;
- and
- tag the media file with information identifying the social-networking information item based on one or more of the potential matches between the second users and the faces in the media file.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.