Understanding images of groups of people
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- 1 June 2009
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- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
In many social settings, images of groups of people are captured. The structure of this group provides meaningful context for reasoning about individuals in the group, and about the structure of the scene as a whole. For example, men are more likely to stand on the edge of an image than women. Instead of treating each face independently from all others, we introduce contextual features that encapsulate the group structure locally (for each person in the group) and globally (the overall structure of the group). This “social context” allows us to accomplish a variety of tasks, such as such as demographic recognition, calculating scene and camera parameters, and even event recognition. We perform human studies to show this context aids recognition of demographic information in images of strangers.Keywords
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