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Unsupervised Celebrity Face Naming In Web Videos, Lei Pang, Chong-Wah Ngo
Unsupervised Celebrity Face Naming In Web Videos, Lei Pang, Chong-Wah Ngo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
This paper investigates the problem of celebrity face naming in unconstrained videos with user-provided metadata. Instead of relying on accurate face labels for supervised learning, a rich set of relationships automatically derived from video content and knowledge from image domain and social cues is leveraged for unsupervised face labeling. The relationships refer to the appearances of faces under different spatio-temporal contexts and their visual similarities. The knowledge includes Web images weakly tagged with celebrity names and the celebrity social networks. The relationships and knowledge are elegantly encoded using conditional random field (CRF) for label inference. Two versions of face annotation …