BEIJING, Oct. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI Inc. (NASDAQ:
IQ) ("iQIYI" or the "Company"), an innovative market-leading online
entertainment service in China, is
pleased to announce that its paper on face recognition and
detection technology of cartoon characters (the "Paper"), titled
Cartoon Face Recognition: A Benchmark Dataset, has been
accepted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s annual
conference on multimedia (ACM Multimedia), a leading academic
conference in the field of multimedia technology.
The acceptance of the paper indicates that the value of iQIYI's
iCartoonFace technology has further been acknowledged by the
international academic community. Experiments showed that
iCartoonFace design framework of the proposed benchmark dataset can
effectively improve the efficiency and accuracy of cartoon
character recognition.
ACM Multimedia, the leading international conference in
multimedia, focuses on advancing the technological research and
applications of images, text, audio, speech, music, sensor and
social media.
Rising to the challenges of cartoon character
recognition
Although algorithms and applications of real human facial
recognition have become increasingly mature, the development of
cartoon character recognition technology remains in its infancy.
Meanwhile, the scenarios requiring cartoon character recognition
technology are growing rapidly as the animation industry booms.
Aside from video-oriented structured analysis, there is also
robust demand for cartoon character recognition technology in image
search, ad recognition and other use cases. However, as cartoon
characters are more complex than human characters, they pose much
greater technical challenges. Unlike human characters, who are
fairly consistent in appearance, cartoon faces are far more varied
in terms of color and texture as well as their potential for small
inter-class differences and large intra-class variations.
A high-quality cartoon dataset is key to realizing technology
breakthroughs and relevant applications of cartoon character
recognition. However, most existing cartoon recognition datasets
are riddled with issues such as data insufficiency and sound
contamination. In the Paper, iQIYI's team presents a new
multi-character training framework for cartoons and real people.
The Paper also introduces a semi-automatic dataset construction
framework and the world's largest cartoon character detection and
recognition dataset with manual annotation — iCartoonFace.
iCartoonFace contains over 400,000 high-quality real-scene images
of over 5,000 characters. It can be applied to structured analysis,
intelligent video-editing, image searching, ad recognition and even
identification of satirical cartoons characters.
Currently, cartoon recognition technology enabled by
iCartoonFace is being used in several of the Company's innovative
offerings and software development work. For example, iQIYI's
AIWorks feature supports the automatic collection of cartoon
character elements and generates AI-enabled video mashups. The AI
Radar 'Qiguan' feature allows users to identify cartoon characters
when viewing animated content.
iQIYI drives innovation in pursuit of delivering optimal user
experiences
iQIYI is dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies and
exploring the applications of new technologies in entertainment. In
the last two years, the Company successfully held two multimodal
video character recognition challenges which helped to
significantly advance the accuracy of multimodal character
recognition.
Most recently, IQYI partnered with the International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Pacific Rim
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence to hold the
first large-scale cartoon character recognition competition in
China. This competition attracted
a wide range of talent, with 500 teams from top universities such
as Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well
as well-known technology companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD.com and SenseTime. Looking
ahead, iQIYI will continue to strengthen its research and
innovation as it strives to constantly explore the next generation
of tech-driven applications and experiences.
To learn more about the Paper, please visit
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3394171.3413726
About iQIYI, Inc.
iQIYI, Inc. is an innovative market-leading online entertainment
service in China. Its corporate
DNA combines creative talent with technology, fostering an
environment for continuous innovation and the production of
blockbuster content. iQIYI's platform features highly popular
original content, as well as a comprehensive library of other
professionally-produced content, partner-generated content and user
generated content. The Company distinguishes itself in the online
entertainment industry by its leading technology platform powered
by advanced AI, big data analytics and other core proprietary
technologies. iQIYI attracts a massive user base with tremendous
user engagement, and has developed a diversified monetization model
including membership services, online advertising services, content
distribution, live broadcasting, online games, IP licensing, online
literature and e-commerce.
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