A Coupled Hidden Markov Random Field Model for Simultaneous Face Clustering and Tracking in Videos

Wu, Baoyuan; Hu, Bao-Gang; Ji, Qiang

A Coupled Hidden Markov Random Field Model for Simultaneous Face Clustering and Tracking in Videos

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Article

Authors

Wu, Baoyuan

Hu, Bao-Gang
Ji, Qiang

KAUST Department

Visual Computing Center (VCC)

Online Publication Date

2016-10-26

Print Publication Date

2017-04

Date

2016-10-26

Abstract

Face clustering and face tracking are two areas of active research in automatic facial video processing. They, however, have long been studied separately, despite the inherent link between them. In this paper, we propose to perform simultaneous face clustering and face tracking from real world videos. The motivation for the proposed research is that face clustering and face tracking can provide useful information and constraints to each other, thus can bootstrap and improve the performances of each other. To this end, we introduce a Coupled Hidden Markov Random Field (CHMRF) to simultaneously model face clustering, face tracking, and their interactions. We provide an effective algorithm based on constrained clustering and optimal tracking for the joint optimization of cluster labels and face tracking. We demonstrate significant improvements over state-of-the-art results in face clustering and tracking on several videos.

Citation

Wu B, Hu B-G, Ji Q (2016) A Coupled Hidden Markov Random Field Model for Simultaneous Face Clustering and Tracking in Videos. Pattern Recognition. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2016.10.022.

Acknowledgements

The work was completed when the first author was a visiting student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), supported by a scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC). We thank CSC and RPI for their supports. Qiang Ji is supported in part by a grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF, No. 1145152). Bao-Gang Hu and Baoyuan Wu are supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, No. 61273196 and 61573348). We greatly thank Professor Siwei Lyu for his constructive comments to this work.