Abstract
The sharing of group photos (or other digital assets) with individuals depicted in the photos is currently a laborious, error-prone manual process. This disclosure describes techniques for automated, privacy-preserving sharing of digital media assets. With user permission, a set of digital media assets is analyzed using facial recognition to identify faces depicted within those assets. With user permission, the user’s repository of contacts is accessed to correlate the recognized faces with known individuals listed therein, thereby establishing an association between specific media assets and specific contacts. After successful identification and correlation, a user prompt or notification is generated for review and consent. This prompt includes suggestions for sharing specific subsets of the analyzed media with the corresponding identified contacts. Following user confirmation and selection of the sharing mechanism, the media assets are automatically segregated and shared such that each recipient receives only those assets in which their presence was detected and confirmed. The distribution of photos is automated even as privacy risks are mitigated. The need for manual sorting and sharing is reduced or eliminated.
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Recommended Citation
Bharmal, Mahmad and Itankar, Piyush, "Automated Context-Aware Sharing of Digital Media Assets", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/8856