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Detecting People in Artwork with CNNs

  • Nicholas Westlake
  • , Peter Hall
  • , Hongping Cai

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

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    Abstract

    CNNs have massively improved performance in object detection in photographs. However research into object detection in artwork remains limited. We show state-of-the-art performance on a challenging dataset, People-Art, which contains people from photos, cartoons and 41 different artwork movements. We achieve this high performance by fine-tuning a CNN for this task, thus also demonstrating that training CNNs on photos results in overfitting for photos: only the first three or four layers transfer from photos to artwork. Although the CNN’s performance is the highest yet, it remains less than 60 % AP, suggesting further work is needed for the cross-depiction problem.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2016 Workshops
    Subtitle of host publicationAmsterdam, The Netherlands, October 8-10 and 15-16, 2016, Proceedings, Part I
    EditorsGang Hua, Hervé Jégou
    PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
    Pages825-841
    Number of pages17
    ISBN (Electronic)9783319466040
    ISBN (Print)9783319466033
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 Sept 2016

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume9913
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743

    Keywords

    • CNNs
    • Cross-depiction problem
    • Object recognition

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