Building a person profile database
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsLei Zhang, Xin-Jing Wang, Wei-Ying Ma
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Abstract
Names of entities, such as people, in an image may be identified automatically. Visually similar images of entities are retrieved, including text proximate to the visually similar images. The collected text is mined for names of entities, and the detected names are analyzed. A name may be associated with the entity in the image, based on the analysis.
Claims20
A system for automatically identifying a name of a person in an image, the system comprising:
- a processor;
- memory coupled to the processor;
- an analysis component stored in the memory and operable on the processor to:
- receive a query including a face image,
- detect visual features from the face image,
- collect visually similar images based on the detecting,
- accumulate text from documents containing the visually similar images, the text in a proximity of the visually similar images,
- determine a name of a person from the accumulated text;
- and
- an output component stored in the memory and operable on the processor to output the name of the person.
One or more computer readable storage devices comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by a computer processor, direct the computer processor to perform operations including:
- receiving a query including an image;
- automatically collecting at least one visually similar image to the included image and text from a file containing the visually similar image, the text being in a proximity of the visually similar image within the file;
- determining a name of an entity in the included image based on the collecting;
- and
- outputting the name of the entity.
A computer implemented method of identifying a name of a person in an image, the method comprising:
- receiving a query including a face image;
- detecting at least one visual feature from the face image;
- collecting at least one visually similar image to the face image, based on the detecting;
- accumulating text from at least one document containing the at least one visually similar image, the text in a proximity of the at least one visually similar image;
- determining a name of a person from the accumulated text;
- and
- outputting the name of the person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.