Improvement of a Person Labelling Method Using Extracted Knowledge on Costume

This paper presents a novel approach for automatic person labelling in video sequences using costumes. The person recognition is carried out by extracting the costumes of all the persons who appear in the video. Then, their reappearance in subsequent frames is performed by searching the reappearance of their costume. Our contribution in this paper is a new approach for costume detection, without face detection, that allows the localization of costumes even if persons are not facing the camera. Actually face detection is also used because it presents a very accurate heuristic for costume detection, but in addition in each shot mean shift costume localization is carried out with the most relevant costume when face detection fails. Results are presented with TV broadcasts.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CAIP
• Authors: Gaël Jaffré, Philippe Joly
• Keywords: CAIP 2005, Costume Detection, Face Detection, Shift Costume Localization