Leveraging face recognition technology to find and organize photos

With digital still cameras, users can easily collect thousands of photos. We have created a photo management application with the goal of making photo organization and browsing simple and quick, even for very large collections. A particular concern is the management of photos depicting people. We present a semi-automatic approach designed to facilitate the task of labeling photos with people that opportunistically takes advantage of the strengths of current state-of-the-art technology in face detection and recognition. In particular, an accurate face detector is used to automatically extract faces from photos while the less accurate face recognizer is used not to classify the detected faces, but to sort faces by their similarity to a chosen model. The sorted faces are presented as candidates within a user interface designed for quick and easy face labeling. We present results of a simulation of the usage model that demonstrate the improved ease that is achieved by our method. Categori...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MIR
• Authors: Andreas Girgensohn, John Adcock, Lynn Wilcox
• Keywords: Face Detection, MIR 2004, Multimedia, Photo, User Interface