Cast2Face: Character identification in movie with actor-character correspondence

• Main Authors: XU, Mengdi, YUAN, Xiaotong, SHEN, Jialie, YAN, Shuicheng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: cast analysis; multi-task learning; character identification; video summarization; face recognition; Databases and Information Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/651; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1650/viewcontent/p831_xu.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We investigate the problem of automatically identifying characters in a movie with the supervision of actor-character name correspondence provided by the movie cast. Our proposed framework, namely Cast2Face, is featured by: (i) we restrict the names to assign within the set of character names in the...