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The objective of this work is to correctly detect and recognize faces in an image collection using a database of known faces. This has applications in photo-tagging, video indexing, surveillance and recognition in wearable computers. We propose a two-stage approach for both detection and recognition tasks. In the first stage, we generate a seed set from the given image collection using off-the-shelf face detection and recognition algorithms. In the second stage, the obtained seed set is used to improve the performance of these algorithms by adapting them to the domain at hand. We propose an exemplar-based semi-supervised framework for improving the detections. For recognition of images, we use sparse representation classifier and generate seed images based on a confidence measure. The labels of the seed set are then propagated to other faces using label propagation framework by imposing appropriate constraints. Unlike traditional approaches, our approach exploits the similarities among the faces in collection to obtain improved performance. We conduct extensive experiments on two real-world photo-album and video collections. Our approach consistently provides an improvement of \({\sim } 4\)% for detection and \(5{-}9\)% for recognition on all these datasets.
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This work is partly supported by the MCIT, New Delhi. Vijay Kumar is supported by TCS PhD fellowship 2012.
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Kumar, V., Namboodiri, A. & Jawahar, C.V. Semi-supervised annotation of faces in image collection. SIViP 12, 141–149 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-017-1140-5
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