METHOD FOR SEARCHING CLOSENESS BETWEEN PEOPLE BASED ON PHOTOS

摘要

The present invention provides a method for searching intimacy between people based on photos, which builds a photo associated graph using the photographed people, photographing time, and photographing place information of photos and defines a new people intimacy associated graph again through the built photo associated graph to perform people-based photo clustering, thereby effectively searching the grouped photos. The method comprises the steps of (A) receiving photo information from a terminal; (B) analyzing and describing the inputted photos to create photo description information including photo identifiers and photo analysis information; (C) performing photo clustering in order to search and group the photos more efficiently using the photographed people, photographing place, and photographing time information of the photos based on the photo analysis information including the created various photo description information; (D) creating group description information using a correlation between the photos and intimacy between the people based on an output from a clustering unit; (E) matching and combining the created photo description information and group description information to create and store photo album information; (F) transmitting the stored photo album information to the user terminal when a user requests a search of photos; and (G) outputting a search result using the transmitted photo album information.