Patent ID: 7519200

Claim:
A method for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a collection of images, the method comprising: for individual images in the collection, using a processor to perform steps comprising: (a) detecting one or more persons depicted in the captured image; (b) performing normalization on a face of the detected one or more persons, including normalizing effects of lighting when the image was captured using at least one of a histogram or linear ramp intensity analysis; (c) performing image analysis on the captured image to determine recognition information about the one or more persons in the captured image using image data contained in the captured image that depicts the face of the one or more persons, further including determining information about a clothing or apparel of the detected one or more persons; (d) using a probabilistic model and the recognition information to determine an identity assignment for the one or more persons in the captured image, wherein the probability model is based at least on a time when the image was captured and the information about the clothing or apparel, wherein the identify assignment is determined according to a combination that includes at least the time information and the clothing or apparel information.