Abstract: In this article, we present an approach for retrieving similar faces between the artistic and the real domain. The application we refer to is an interactive exhibition inside a museum, in which a visitor can take a photo of himself and search for a lookalike in the collection of paintings. The task requires not only to identify faces but also to extract discriminative features from artistic and photo-realistic images, tackling a significant domain shift. Our method integrates feature extraction networks which account for the aesthetic similarit...
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Artificial intelligence
Information retrieval