Jean-Ronan Vigouroux

SHREC'13 track: retrieval on textured 3D models

This contribution reports the results of the SHREC 2013 track: Retrieval on Textured 3D Models, whose goal is to evaluate the performance of retrieval algorithms when models vary either by geometric shape or texture, or both. The collection to search in is made of 240 textured mesh models, divided into 10 classes. Each model has been used in turn as a query against the remaining part of the database. For a given query, the goal was to retrieve the most similar objects. The track saw six participants and the submission of eleven runs.

On evaluating face tracks in movies

Automatic extraction of face tracks is a key component of systems that analyse people in audio-visual content such as TV programs and movies. Due to the lack of properly annotated content of this type, popular algorithms for extracting face tracks have not been fully assessed in the literature. We introduce and make publicly available a new dataset, based on the full annotation of a feature movie, to help fill this gap. We show in particular that, thanks to this dataset, state-of-art tracking metrics can now be exploited to evaluate face tracks used by, e.g., automatic character naming systems. We conduct such an evaluation on different variants of a novel system that we introduce as a generalization of existing ones.

Facial Landmarks Localization Estimation by Cascaded Boosted Regression

Accurate detection of facial landmarks is very important for many applications like face recognition or analysis. In this paper we describe an efficient detector of facial landmarks based on a cascade of boosted regressors of arbitrary number of levels. We define as many regressors as landmarks and we train them separately. We describe how the training is conducted for the series of regressors by supplying training samples centered on the predictions of the previous levels. We employ gradient boosted regression and evaluate three different kinds of weak elementary regressors, each one based on Haar features: non parametric regressors, simple linear regressors and gradient boosted trees. We discuss trade-offs between the number of levels and the number of weak regressors for optimal detection speed. Experiments performed on three datasets suggest that our approach is competitive compared to state-of-the art systems regarding precision, speed as well as stability of the prediction on video streams.

Indexing and Profiling in a Consumer Movies Catalog Browsing Tool

This paper discusses the benefits of both indexing and classification techniques combined with natural user interfaces for building consumer browsing tools. It focuses on text indexing and classification techniques used for user profiling.