METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LONG TERM MEMORY MODEL IN FACE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION

摘要

A system, apparatus and method are provided for a long term memory model for use in face detection and role recognition wherein the long term memory comprises a reference database (1001) of faces detected in videos that is used to associate roles with faces in videos. An algorithm is included for processing a new video against the reference database to both detect/recognize faces therein, and to extend the reference database (1001) to include detected but previously unrecognized faces. A method for computing a degree of importance DoI metric that provides a measure of the importance of a recognized face as well as several methods for using this metric.