Cross-modal Multi-task Learning for Graphic Recognition of Caricature Face

Abstract: Face recognition of realistic visual images has been well studied and made a significant progress in the recent decade. Unlike the realistic visual images, the face recognition of the caricatures is far from the performance of the visual images. This is largely due to the extreme non-rigid distortions of the caricatures introduced by exaggerating the facial features to strengthen the characters. The heterogeneous modalities of the caricatures and the visual images result the caricature-visual face recognition is a cross-modal problem. In this paper, we propose a method to conduct caricature-visual face recognition via multi-task learning. Rather than the conventional multi-task learning with fixed weights of tasks, this work proposes an approach to learn the weights of tasks according to the importance of tasks. The proposed multi-task learning with dynamic tasks weights enables to appropriately train the hard task and easy task instead of being stuck in the over-training easy task as conventional methods. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic multi-task learning for cross-modal caricature-visual face recognition. The performances on the datasets CaVI and WebCaricature show the superiority over the state-of-art methods.