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Multimodal Image Retrieval Based on Eyes Hints and Facial Description Properties

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Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV 2020)

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Eyes are the most prominent visual components on human face. Obtaining the corresponding face only by the visual hints of eyes is a long time expectation of people. However, since eyes only occupy a small part of the whole face, and they do not contain evident identity recognition features, this is an underdetermined task and hardly to be finished. To cope with the lack of query information, we enroll extra face description properties as a complementary information source, and propose a multimodal image retrieval method based on eyes hints and facial description properties. Furthermore, besides straightforward corresponding facial image retrieval, description properties also provide the capacity of customized retrieval, i.e., through altering description properties, we could obtain various faces with the same given eyes. Our approach is constructed based on deep neural network framework, and here we propose a novel image and property fusion mechanism named Product of Addition and Concatenation (PAC). Here the eyes image and description properties features, respectively acquired by CNN and LSTM, are fused by a carefully designed combination of addition, concatenation, and element-wise product. Through this fusion strategy, both information of distinct categories can be projected into a unified face feature space, and contribute to effective image retrieval. Our method has been experimented and validated on the publicly available CelebA face dataset.

J. Wang—Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61771340), the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation (No. 18JCYBJC15300), the Program for Innovative Research Team in University of Tianjin (No. TD13-5032), and the Tianjin Science and Technology Program (19PTZWHZ00020).

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Li, Y., Bi, J., Zhang, T., Wang, J. (2020). Multimodal Image Retrieval Based on Eyes Hints and Facial Description Properties. In: Peng, Y., et al. Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. PRCV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12306. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60639-8_13

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