Cast2Face: Assigning character names onto faces in movie with actor-character correspondence

• Main Authors: GAO, Guangyu, XU, Mengdi, SHEN, Jialie, MA, Huangdong, YAN, Shuicheng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Cast analysis; character identification; conditional random field (CRF); face recognition; multitask learning; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3535; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4536/viewcontent/cast2FaceCharacterNames_2016_TCSVT.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Automatically identifying characters in movies has attracted researchers' interest and led to several significant and interesting applications. However, due to the vast variation in character appearance as well as the weakness and ambiguity of available annotation, it is still a challenging pro...