Patent ID: 8818034
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: detecting a face region in an input image; assigning to the face region one or more facial recognition categories each of which is associated with a respective set of one or more different feature extraction modules and a respective set of one or more different facial recognition matching modules; for each of the facial recognition categories assigned to the face region, processing the input image with each of the feature extraction modules associated with the facial recognition category to produce a respective facial region descriptor vector of facial region descriptor values characterizing the face region; and determining a recognition result between the face region and a reference face image based on application of the facial recognition matching modules associated with the facial recognition categories assigned to the face region to the facial region descriptor vectors produced for the face region detected in the input image; wherein the detecting, the assigning, the processing, and the determining are performed by a computer.