INFERRING THE GENDER OF A FACE IN AN IMAGE

Patent №

US 8,588,482

Granted

2013-11-19

Filed 2011

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

6

ml · nlp · vision · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13274778

The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes receiving a plurality of images having human faces. The method further includes generating a data structure having representations of the faces and associations that link the representations based on similarities in appearance between the faces. The method further includes outputting a first gender value for a first representation of a first face that indicates a gender of the first face based on one or more other gender values of one or more other representations of one or more other faces that are linked to the first representation.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Natural language1.00
Planning0.98
Evolutionary computation0.94
Machine learning0.93
Knowledge representation0.85
AI hardware0.39
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 304360859

Assignors

BALUJA, SHUMEET, JING, YUSHI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

© 2026 NYSGPT2525 LLC