Cp-mtml: Coupled projection multi-task metric learning for large scale face retrieval

Binod Bhattarai, Gaurav Sharma, Frédéric Jurie

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Abstract

We propose a novel Coupled Projection multi-task Metric Learning (CP-mtML) method for large scale face retrieval. In contrast to previous works which were limited to low dimensional features and small datasets, the proposed method scales to large datasets with high dimensional face descriptors. It utilises pairwise (dis-)similarity constraints as supervision and hence does not require exhaustive class annotation for every training image. While, traditionally, multi-task learning methods have been validated on same dataset but different tasks, we work on the more challenging setting with heterogeneous datasets and different tasks. We show empirical validation on multiple face image datasets of different facial traits, e.g. identity, age and expression. We use classic Local Binary Pattern (LBP) descriptors along with the recent Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features. The experiments clearly demonstrate the scalability and improved performance of the proposed method on the tasks of identity and age based face image retrieval compared to competitive existing methods, on the standard datasets and with the presence of a million distractor face images.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
PublisherComputer Vision Foundation (CVF)
Pages4226-4235
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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