Multiple-view constrained clustering for unsupervised face identification in TV-broadcast

Our goal is to automatically identify faces in TV broadcast without a pre-defined dictionary of identities. Most methods are based on identity detection (from OCR and ASR) and require a propagation strategy based on visual clustering. In TV content, people appear with many variations making the clustering difficult. In this case, speaker clustering can be a reliable link for face clustering. We propose in this paper to build automatically an incomplete speaker-face mapping based on local evidence of OCR and Lip activity links. Then, we propose schemes of speaker constraints propagation to the face constrained-clustering problem. Experiments performed on the REPERE corpus show an improvement of face identification by propagating names to face clusters (+3.7% F-measure compared to the baseline).