Patent ID: 8027541

Claim:
A computer-implemented system comprising: a processor for executing computer-executable instructions; and components for organizing images based on faces of people depicted in the images, the components comprising: an extraction component including computer-executable instructions for: detecting the faces of people depicted in the images; and extracting visual information including the detected faces of the people from the images; a comparison component including computer-executable instructions for: computing similarity confidence data by comparing the extracted visual information, the computed similarity confidence data between the extracted visual information indicating a likelihood that the detected faces represent a same person; and generating a visual distribution of the extracted visual information, the visual distribution including groupings of the extracted visual information based, at least in part, upon the computed similarity confidence data; and a user interface component including computer-executable instructions for: displaying the visual distribution as a layout of the faces of the people depicted in the images such that the faces in the layout are displayed in multiple clusters of similar faces based on the groupings of the extracted visual information and such that distances between the faces in the layout are based on the computed similarity confidence data; and receiving user input to tag the clusters with identifiers for the people depicted in the images, the identifiers of tagged clusters automatically propagating to the images associated with the groupings of the extracted visual information.