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We evaluate our algorithms on face verification and human body verification problems on a number benchmark datasets, such as Multi-PIE, LFW, CIGIT-AIS, VIPer, VIPeR, and CAVIAR4REID. Our methods outperform not only the classical Bayesian Face Recognition approach, metric learning algorithms (LMNN, ITML, etc.), but also the state-of-the-art in the computer vision community. This dissertation also considers efficient person search, a potential application of person verification in surveillance systems. To this end, we propose a general learning-to-search framework for efficient similarity search in high dimensions. 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