US 12,169,983 B1
Automated headshot ranking for retrieval and display
Yash Pandya, Navi Mumbai (IN); Abhinav Aggarwal, New Delhi (IN); Lokesh Amarnath Ravindranathan, Bangalore (IN); Laxmi Shivaji Ahire, Malegaon (IN); Manivel Sethu, Bangalore (IN); Kaustav Nandy, Bengaluru (IN); and Nihal Shandilya, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/712,730.
Int. Cl. G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06T 7/77 (2017.01); G06V 10/72 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 40/168 (2022.01) [G06T 7/77 (2017.01); G06V 10/72 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 40/174 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20132 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
accessing a set of images that depict a face of an individual;
for individual images of the set of images, selecting an image of the set of images by at least iteratively:
determining a first feature value associated with a first feature of the face within individual images of the set of images;
determining a first ranked order for the individual images based at least in part on the first feature value;
determining a first percentile rank for the individual images based at least in part on the first ranked order;
determining a second feature value associated with a second feature of the face within individual images of the set of images;
determining a second ranked order for the individual images based at least in part on the second feature value;
determining a second percentile rank for the individual images based at least in part on the second ranked order; and
removing one or more images from the individual images based at least in part on the first percentile rank and the second percentile rank to reduce the set of images to the image; and
storing the image in association with the individual.