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Face tracking and recognition with visual constraints in real-world videos

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Face tracking and recognition with visual constraints in real-world videos
We address the problem of tracking and recognizing faces in real-world, noisy videos. We track faces using a tracker that adaptively builds a target model reflecting changes in appearance, typical of a video setting. However, adaptive appearance trackers often suffer from drift, a gradual adaptation of the tracker to non-targets. To alleviate this problem, our tracker introduces visual constraints using a combination of generative and discriminative models in a particle filtering framework. The generative term conforms the particles to the space of generic face poses while the discriminative one ensures rejection of poorly aligned targets. This leads to a tracker that significantly improves robustness against abrupt appearance changes and occlusions, critical for the subsequent recognition phase. Identity of the tracked subject is established by fusing pose-discriminant and person-discriminant features over the duration of a video sequence. This leads to a robust video-based face reco...
Minyoung Kim, Sanjiv Kumar, Vladimir Pavlovic, Hen
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where CVPR
Authors Minyoung Kim, Sanjiv Kumar, Vladimir Pavlovic, Henry A. Rowley
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