Spatial Face Context with Age and Background Cues for Group Photo Retrieval

Abstract

People usually take group photos by using cameras and smart phones to record social events. With the increasing number of group photos, searching and collecting similar group photos become difficult. In this paper, we propose using spatial face context with age and background information to achieve group photo retrieval. Visual features between group photos are assessed by applying spatial arrangement, genders, ages and backgrounds information between two group photos. Then, an effective graph matching is applied to assess the similarity between two group photos based on the visual features. Experimental results show that our method can retrieve similar group photos by combing foreground and background information.