Patent ID: 7817826

Claim:
A method for face identification of a probe human face image from a plurality of human face images in a gallery database having a plurality of templates, each template corresponding to a partial face component and said templates in said gallery database being grouped into categories, comprising the steps of: detecting and segmenting a plurality of partial face components from said probe human face image; creating a probe template for each of said partial face components from said probe human face image; comparing a first probe template against a first category of templates in said gallery database and a second probe template against a second category of templates in said gallery database to generate similarity scores between said first and second probe templates and said first and second templates in said gallery database; generating a first list of candidate images whose first template in said gallery database has a similarity score with said first probe template over a preset threshold and a second list of candidate images whose second template in said gallery database have a similarity score with said second template over said preset threshold.