Method and apparatus for mitigating face aging errors when performing facial recognition
AssigneeAdobe Systems Incorporated
InventorSudhir Tubegere Shankaranarayana
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Abstract
A computer implemented method and apparatus for mitigating face aging errors when performing facial recognition. The method comprises receiving an indication of a face that needs to be searched in an image set, where each image in the image set comprises a timestamp that identifies a creation date of the image, the creation date being in a continuum of successive time intervals; and identifying the indicated face in images taken in each time interval of a plurality of successive time intervals for the indicated face, wherein each face found in images taken in a previous successive time interval is used as a reference set for identifying the face in images taken in a next successive time interval.
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A computer implemented method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a face to be searched in an image set, where each image in the image set comprises a timestamp that identifies a creation date of the image, the creation date being in a continuum of successive time intervals;
- performing facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a first time interval from a plurality of successive time intervals in the continuum using a positive reference set comprising one or more faces from a previous time interval that match the indicated face and a negative reference set comprising one or more faces from the previous time interval that do not match the indicated face;
- replacing the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the positive reference set with one or more faces from images from the first time interval that match the indicated face;
- replacing the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the negative reference set with one or more faces from images from the first time interval that do not match the indicated face;
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- performing facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a second time interval from the plurality of successive time intervals using the positive reference set and the negative reference set, the second time interval being successive to the first time interval.
An apparatus for mitigating face aging errors when performing facial recognition comprising:
- at least one processor;
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- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:
- receive an indication of a face to be searched in an image set, where each image in the image set comprises a timestamp that identifies a creation date of the image, the creation date being in a continuum of successive time intervals;
- perform facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a first time interval from a plurality of successive time intervals in the continuum using a positive reference set comprising one or more faces from a previous time interval that match the indicated face and a negative reference set comprising one or more faces from the previous time interval that do not match the indicated face;
- replace the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the positive reference set with one or more faces from images from the first time interval that match the indicated face;
- replace the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the negative reference set with one or more faces from images from the first time interval that do not match the indicated face;
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- perform facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a second time interval from the plurality of successive time intervals using the positive reference set and the negative reference set, the second time interval being successive to the first time interval.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing computer instructions that, when executed by at least one processor cause a computer system to:
- receive an indication of a face to be searched in an image set, where each image in the image set comprises a timestamp that identifies a creation date of the image, the creation date of the image, the creation date being in a continuum of successive time intervals;
- and
- perform facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a first time interval from a plurality of successive time intervals in the continuum using a positive reference set comprising one or more faces from a previous time interval that match the indicated face and a negative reference set comprising one or more faces from the previous time interval that do not match the indicated face;
- replace the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the positive reference set with one or more faces that match the indicated face from the first time interval;
- replace the one or more faces from images from the previous time interval in the negative reference set with one or more faces from images from the first time interval that do not match the indicated face;
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- perform facial recognition to identify the indicated face in one or more images in a second time interval from the plurality of successive time intervals using the positive reference set and the negative reference set from the first time interval, the second time interval being successive to the first time interval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.