Method for selecting an emphasis image from an image collection based upon content recognition
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorLawrence A. Ray
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Abstract
A method for selecting an emphasis image from a collection of images based on facial identification comprises the steps of: (a) obtaining a collection of digital images; (b) detecting image patterns indicative of the presence of one or more faces in the digital images, thereby identifying one or more detected faces for each image in which a face is detected; (c) recognizing one or more faces from the detected faces for each of the images in which a face is detected; and (d) scoring an image based on the relative frequency of occurrence of a recognized face within the collection of images, thereby producing an emphasis image characteristic of the most frequently occurring face in the collection of images.
Claims9
A method for selecting an emphasis image from a collection of images based on facial identification, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) obtaining a collection of digital images;
- (b) detecting image patterns indicative of the presence of one or more faces in the digital images, thereby identifying one or more detected faces for each image in which a face is detected;
- (c) recognizing one or more faces from the detected faces for each of the images in which a face is detected;
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- (d) scoring an image based on the relative frequency of occurrence of a recognized face within the collection of images, thereby producing an emphasis image characteristic of the most frequently occurring face in the collection of images.
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