A new algorithm designed at the University of Toronto has
the power to profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on
social media sites such as Facebook and Flickr.
This month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will issue a
patent on this technology.
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 tag locations to quantify
relationships between individuals, even those not tagged in any given photo.