Patent ID: 8386486
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-executed method for facilitating social networking based on fashion-related information, comprising: receiving, by a server computer, user images from a first user and a plurality of different users, wherein a first user image received from the first user includes the first user wearing a first set of clothing items, and wherein an image received from a respective user of the plurality of different users includes the respective user wearing a set of clothing items; receiving from the first user and the respective user of the plurality of different users, fashion-related information that includes a bounding box for a corresponding user image, wherein fashion-related information received from the first user includes a first bounding box in the first image, wherein the first bounding box identifies a portion of the first image that includes a first clothing item from the first set of clothing items, and wherein fashion-related information received from the respective user of the plurality of different users includes a bounding box that identifies a portion of a corresponding image that includes a clothing item from the set of clothing items; extracting, from portions of the received images identified by corresponding bounding boxes, user-preference attributes that indicate fashion preferences for the first user and the respective user of the plurality of different users, wherein first user-preference attributes extracted from the first image indicate the first user's fashion preferences from at least the first clothing item within the identified portion of the first image; grouping the first user and one or more of the different users based on a similarity measure that combines weighted values of a comparison between the first user-preference attributes and user-preference attributes from the one or more of the plurality of different users, a user feedback process, and a fashion preference classifier; and recommending to the first user a different clothing item in the received images worn by the one or more of the different users which share similar fashion preferences in the same group as the user.