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MS-Celeb-1M: A Dataset and Benchmark for Large-Scale Face Recognition (arxiv.org)
3 points by fitzwatermellow on Jul 28, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Built a benchmark for naming one million celebrities from photos, training on every image of each person online and using a knowledge base to sort out names. Its 10 million training images are the largest public face set, and first tests show it works.

Abstract

In this paper, we design a benchmark task and provide the associated datasets for recognizing face images and link them to corresponding entity keys in a knowledge base. More specifically, we propose a benchmark task to recognize one million celebrities from their face images, by using all the possibly collected face images of this individual on the web as training data. The rich information provided by the knowledge base helps to conduct disambiguation and improve the recognition accuracy, and contributes to various real-world applications, such as image captioning and news video analysis. Associated with this task, we design and provide concrete measurement set, evaluation protocol, as well as training data. We also present in details our experiment setup and report promising baseline results. Our benchmark task could lead to one of the largest classification problems in computer vision. To the best of our knowledge, our training dataset, which contains 10M images in version 1, is the largest publicly available one in the world.

Yandong Guo, Lei Zhang, Yuxiao Hu, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv:1607.08221 · cs.CV · submitted Jul 27, 2016
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