Patent attributes
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting facial image search results. In one aspect, a method includes detecting, in images that are responsive to a query, faces in the images and building facial templates. The images are then clustered according to similarity measures of the facial templates. The cluster with the highest quantity is selected, and each image in the set of returned images is compared to each image in the selected cluster. The similarity of each face with the faces in the largest cluster, based on the facial templates, is determined as an inlier score for the image in which the face is depicted. The system then increases the rank of images with high inlier scores and decreases the rank of images with low inlier scores.
