Title
A data association approach to detect and organize people in personal photo collections
Abstract
In this paper we present a method to automatically segment a photo sequence in groups containing the same persons. Many methods in literature accomplish to this task by adopting clustering techniques. We model the problem as the search for probable associations between faces detected in subsequent photos considering the mutual exclusivity constraint: a person can not be in a photo two times, nor two faces in the same photo can be assigned to the same group. Associations have been found considering face and clothing descriptions. In particular, a two level architecture has been adopted: at the first level, associations are computed within meaningful temporal windows (situations); at the second level, the resulting clusters are re-processed to find associations across situations. Experiments confirm our technique generally outperforms clustering methods. We present an analysis of the results on a public dataset, enabling future comparison, and on private collections.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s11042-011-0839-5
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Digital library,Personal photo album,Data association,Re-identification
Journal
61
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1380-7501
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liliana Lo Presti122320.67
Marco Morana211114.78
Marco La Cascia365571.39