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Detecting People in Artwork with CNNs (arxiv.org)
2 points by heydenberk on Nov 27, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Retraining a photo-trained image network to spot people in paintings, cartoons and photos tests how well detection carries to artwork. It beat all previous scores on People-Art, but stayed under 60% on the detection score, with only the first three or four layers transferring.

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. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_57

Nicholas Westlake, Hongping Cai, Peter Hall
arXiv:1610.08871 · cs.CV · submitted Oct 27, 2016
abstract · pdf · html · 14 pages, plus 3 pages of references; 7 figures in ECCV 2016 Workshops

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