New algorithm finds you, even in untagged photos

December 6, 2013

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The location of tags in a images tells us a story. From them, we can extract a tag relativity graph. The graph enables social search by understanding tag relationships. (Credit: University of Toronto)

A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto could change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.
Developed by Parham Aarabi, a professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and his former Master’s student Ron Appel, the search tool uses the locations of tagged persons to quantify relationships between them, even those not tagged in any given photo./.../