Recognizing faces in news photographs on the web

Author

Zitouni, Hilal ; Bulut, Muhammed Fatih ; Duygulu, Pinar

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng. Dept., Bilkent Univ., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2009

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

55

Abstract

We propose a graph based method in order to recognize the faces that appear on the web using a small training set. First, relevant pictures of the desired people are collected by querying the name in a text based search engine in order to construct the data set. Then, detected faces in these photographs are represented using SIFT features extracted from facial features. The similarities of faces are represented in a graph which is then used in random walk with restart algorithm to provide links between faces. Those links are used for recognition by using two different methods.

Keywords

face recognition; feature extraction; information networks; face recognition; facial feature extraction; graph based method; photographs; text based search engine; Aging; Data mining; Face detection; Face recognition; Facial features; Feature extraction; Lighting; Search engines; Videos; Web pages; face; face detection; names; photographs; random walk;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Sciences, 2009. ISCIS 2009. 24th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guzelyurt

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5021-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5023-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCIS.2009.5291920

Filename

5291920