Mining weakly labeled web facial images for search-based face annotation

• Main Authors: WANG, Dayang, HOI, Steven C. H., HE, Ying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Auto face annotation; Web facial images; Unsupervised learning; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4175; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5178/viewcontent/MiningWeaklyLabeledWebFace_SIGIR_2011.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we investigate a search-based face annotation framework by mining weakly labeled facial images that are freely available on the internet. A key component of such a search-based annotation paradigm is to build a database of facial images with accurate labels. This is however challengin...