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Face Detection, Tracking, and Classification from Large-Scale News Archives for Analysis of Key Political Figures

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  • Girbau, Andreu
  • Kobayashi, Tetsuro
  • Renoust, Benjamin
  • Matsui, Yusuke
  • Satoh, Shin’ichi

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Analyzing the appearances of political figures in large-scale news archives is increasingly important with the growing availability of large-scale news archives and developments in computer vision. We present a deep learning-based method combining face detection, tracking, and classification, which is particularly unique because it does not require any re-training when targeting new individuals. Users can feed only a few images of target individuals to reliably detect, track, and classify them. Extensive validation of prominent political figures in two news archives spanning 10 to 20 years, one containing three U.S. cable news and the other including two major Japanese news programs, consistently shows high performance and flexibility of the proposed method. The codes are made readily available to the public.

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  • Girbau, Andreu & Kobayashi, Tetsuro & Renoust, Benjamin & Matsui, Yusuke & Satoh, Shin’ichi, 2024. "Face Detection, Tracking, and Classification from Large-Scale News Archives for Analysis of Key Political Figures," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 32(2), pages 221-239, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:polals:v:32:y:2024:i:2:p:221-239_5
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