Classification database for consumer digital images

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with and digitally stored on a handheld image acquisition device, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor, and wherein the processor-readable code including said database of face print image data comprises:

• (a) an image data component on the handheld image acquisition device including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component on the handheld image acquisition device including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
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• (c) a face recognition data component on the handheld image acquisition device, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) an appearance table including one or more identity entries for the known identity;
• (ii) one or more identity tables corresponding to the one or more identity entries in the appearance table;
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• (iii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints determined from normalized face regions identified within the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein the image data component on the handheld image acquisition device further comprises multiple tables of image classification events, occasions, locations, or places, or other categories, or combinations thereof, each to which groups of multiple images of the image data are determined to belong.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
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• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) an appearance table including one or more identity entries for the known identity;
• (ii) one or more identity tables corresponding to the one or more identity entries in the appearance table;
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• (iii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints determined from normalized face regions identified within the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and wherein said normalized face regions are normalized with respect to a standard size based on one or more distances between eyes, nose, mouth, or one or more other facial features, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein the identity data component further comprises a set of links to a relationship list or a group membership list or both.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) an appearance table including one or more identity entries for the known identity;
• (ii) one or more identity tables corresponding to the one or more identity entries in the appearance table;
• and
• (iii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints determined from normalized face regions identified within the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, and
• (e) wherein the appearance table comprises a list of links to identity tables associated with distinct appearances determined for the known identity.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image, or a pointer to the location of said image, and additional data associated with said image including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to the acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both, and wherein the image data component further comprises an image list of the acquired digital image data;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identity entries;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more faceprint entries corresponding to normalized face regions determined from the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image, or a pointer to the location of said image, and additional data associated with said image including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to the acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both, and wherein the image data component further comprises an image list of the acquired digital image data;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identity entries;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more faceprint entries corresponding to normalized face regions determined from the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein the one or more groups of image data further include image metadata including anthropometrical information associated with conditions of acquisition or normalization, or both, of a face region corresponding to a group of image data and its associated parent image.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image, or a pointer to the location of said image, and additional data associated with said image including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to the acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both, and wherein the image data component further comprises an image list of the acquired digital image data;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identity entries;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more faceprint entries corresponding to normalized face regions determined from the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein the one or more groups of image data further include image metadata including focusing distance of the lens at time of acquisition, or effective digital camera sensor size, or both.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image, or a pointer to the location of said image, and additional data associated with said image including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to the acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both, and wherein the image data component further comprises an image list of the acquired digital image data;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identity entries;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more faceprint entries corresponding to normalized face regions determined from the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and wherein said normalized face regions are normalized with respect to a standard size based on one or more distances between eyes, nose, mouth, or one or more other facial features, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein the image data component further includes additional image data associated with circumstances of acquisition of a parent image and associated face region corresponding to a group of image data.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with and digitally stored on a handheld image acquisition device, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor, and wherein the processor-readable code including said database of face print image data comprises:

• (a) an image data component on the handheld image acquisition device including acquired digital image, or a pointer to the location of said image, and additional data associated with said image including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to the acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both, and wherein the image data component further comprises an image list of the acquired digital image data;
• (b) an identity data component on the handheld image acquisition device including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component on the handheld image acquisition device, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identity entries;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more faceprint entries corresponding to normalized face regions determined from the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein the image data component on the handheld image acquisition device further comprises multiple tables of image classification events, occasions, locations, or places, or other categories, or combinations thereof, each to which groups of multiple images of the image data are determined to belong.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image, or a pointer to the location of said image, and additional data associated with said image including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to the acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both, and wherein the image data component further comprises an image list of the acquired digital image data;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identity entries;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more faceprint entries corresponding to normalized face regions determined from the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and wherein said normalized face regions are normalized with respect to a standard size based on one or more distances between eyes, nose, mouth, or one or more other facial features, or combinations thereof.
• (e) wherein the identity data component further comprises a set of links to a relationship list or a group membership list or both.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identities, wherein each identity table comprises one or more face class entries each defined by values of one or more face classifier parameters;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to the one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints from the acquired digital image data, and
• (d) wherein the identified face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identities, wherein each identity table comprises one or more face class entries each defined by values of one or more face classifier parameters;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to the one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints from the acquired digital image data, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and wherein said normalized face regions are normalized with respect to a standard size based on one or more distances between eyes, nose, mouth, or one or more other facial features, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein the identity data component further comprises a set of links to a relationship list or a group membership list or both.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identities, wherein each identity table comprises one or more face class entries each defined by values of one or more face classifier parameters;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to the one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints from the acquired digital image data, and
• (d) wherein the identified face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, and
• (e) wherein the appearance table comprises a list of links to two or more identity tables associated with distinct appearances determined for the known identity.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) an appearance table including one or more identity entries for the known identity;
• (ii) one or more identity tables corresponding to the one or more identity entries in the appearance table;
• and
• (iii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints determined from normalized face regions identified within the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein said normalized face regions are normalized prior to extracting face classifier parameters therefrom.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image, or a pointer to the location of said image, and additional data associated with said image including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to the acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both, and wherein the image data component further comprises an image list of the acquired digital image data;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identity entries;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more faceprint entries corresponding to normalized face regions determined from the acquired digital image, and
• (d) wherein the normalized face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein said normalized face regions are normalized prior to extracting face classifier parameters therefrom.

One or more processor-readable media having stored thereon processor-readable code including a database of face print image data corresponding to detected face regions within images acquired with an image acquisition device and digitally-stored, wherein the face print image data are stored within the media for access by a processor comprises:

• (a) an image data component including acquired digital image data including content data and unique identifiers corresponding to acquired digital images or face regions therein, or both;
• (b) an identity data component including an identification listing of known identities to which identified face regions detected within the acquired digital image data have been determined to correspond;
• and
• (c) a face recognition data component, comprising for an individual known identity:
• (i) one or more identity tables corresponding to one or more identities, wherein each identity table comprises one or more face class entries each defined by values of one or more face classifier parameters;
• and
• (ii) one or more face class tables corresponding to the one or more face class entries of the one or more identity tables, wherein each face class table comprises one or more face print image entries corresponding to faceprints from the acquired digital image data, and
• (d) wherein the identified face regions comprise spatially normalized face regions, which are normalized with respect to size, orientation or pose, or luminance normalized face regions, or combinations thereof, and
• (e) wherein said normalized face regions are normalized prior to extracting face classifier parameters therefrom.