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A data-driven approach to cleaning large face datasets

Ng, Hong-Wei, Winkler, Stefan·2014·2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)

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Large face datasets are important for advancing face recognition research, but they are tedious to build, because a lot of work has to go into cleaning the huge amount of raw data. To facilitate this task, we describe an approach to building face datasets that starts with detecting faces in images returned from searches for public figures on the Internet, followed by discarding those not belonging to each queried person. We formulate the problem of identifying the faces to be removed as a quadratic programming problem, which exploits the observations that faces of the same person should look similar, have the same gender, and normally appear at most once per image. Our results show that this method can reliably clean a large dataset, leading to a considerable reduction in the work needed to build it. Finally, we are releasing the FaceScrub dataset that was created using this approach. It consists of 141,130 faces of 695 public figures and can be obtained from http://vintage.winklerbros.net/facescrub.html.

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Authors
Ng, H.-W., & Winkler, S.
Venue
2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2014-10
Pages
343-347
ISSN
1522-4880 (ISSN-L)
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643
References
2
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15.14
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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