Leveraging personal photos to inferring friendships in social network services

Authors:
Heung-Nam Kim;Abdulmotaleb El Saddik;Jin-Guk Jung
Affiliations:
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5;School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5;School of Computer and Information Engineering, Inha University, 253 Younghyun-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon 402-751, South Korea
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Social network services have become widely used as an important tool to share rich information; in such networks, making new friends is the most basic functionality to enable users to take advantage of their social networks. In this paper we look into personal photos as an additional source for social network analysis and analyze the potential of people tags in the photos for friend recommendations. We also propose a new compact data structure, collectively called Face Co-Occurrence Networks (FCON), which stores crucial and quantitative information about people's appearance in photos. We discover strong associative relationships among people and recommend reliable social friends by utilizing FCON. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method for recommending friends in social network services.