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Where's Waldo: Matching People in Images of Crowds
Abstract: Given a community-contributed set of photos of a crowded
public event, this paper addresses the problem of finding all images of each person in
the scene. This problem is very challenging due to large changes in camera viewpoints,
severe occlusions, low resolution and photos from tens or hundreds of different
photographers. Despite these challenges, the problem is made tractable by exploiting a
variety of visual and contextual cues – appearance, timestamps, camera pose and
co-occurrence of people. This paper demonstrates an approach that integrates these cues
to enable high quality person matching in community photo collections downloaded from
Flickr.com
