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Names And Faces In The News, Tamara Berg, Alexander Berg, Jaety Edwards, Michael Maire, Ryan White, Yee Teh, Erik Learned-Miller, D Forsyth

Erik G Learned-Miller

We show quite good face clustering is possible for a dataset of inaccurately and ambiguously labelled face images. Our dataset is 44,773 face images, obtained by applying a face finder to approximately half a million captioned news images. This dataset is more realistic than usual face recognition datasets, because it contains faces captured "in the wild" in a variety of configurations with respect to the camera, taking a variety of expressions, and under illumination of widely varying color. Each face image is associated with a set of names, automatically extracted from the associated caption. Many, but not all such sets …