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Experiments in Artimetrics: Avatar Face Recognition

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((TCOMPUTATSCIE,volume 7380))

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The Artimetrics, a field of study that identifies, classifies and authenticates virtual reality avatars and intelligent software agents, has been proposed as a tool for fighting crimes taking place in virtual reality communities and in multiplayer game worlds. Forensic investigators are interested in developing tools for accurate and automated tracking and recognition of avatar faces. In this paper, we evaluate state of the art academic and commercial algorithms developed for human face recognition in the new domain of avatar recognition. While the obtained results are encouraging, ranging from 53.57% to 79.9% on different systems, the paper clearly demonstrated that there is room for improvement and presents avatar face recognition as an open problem to the pattern recognition and biometric communities.

This paper is based on a previous conference report “Evaluation of Face Detection and Recognition Algorithms on Avatar Face Datasets” presented at International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW2011), Banff, Alberta, Canada. October 4-6, 2011 by Roman V. Yampolskiy, Gyuchoon Cho, Richard Rosenthal and Marina L. Gavrilova.

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    Roman V. Yampolskiy, Gyuchoon Cho & Richard Rosenthal

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Yampolskiy, R.V., Cho, G., Rosenthal, R., Gavrilova, M.L. (2012). Experiments in Artimetrics: Avatar Face Recognition. In: Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K. (eds) Transactions on Computational Science XVI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7380. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32663-9_5

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