Face Clustering

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

3 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

22 shown of 22 papers with code (62 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Linkage Based Face Clustering via Graph Convolution Network
  27 Mar 2019 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 6 samples · 5 unverified
  The key idea is that we find the local context in the feature space around an instance (face) contains rich information about the linkage relationship between this instance and its neighbors.
• Sparse Subspace Clustering: Algorithm, Theory, and Applications
  5 Mar 2012 4 repositories listed
  In this paper, we propose and study an algorithm, called Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC), to cluster data points that lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces.
• Learning Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Image Clustering
  3 Jul 2021 3 repositories listed
  Our hierarchical GNN uses a novel approach to merge connected components predicted at each level of the hierarchy to form a new graph at the next level.
• Learning to Cluster Faces via Confidence and Connectivity Estimation
  1 Apr 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 15 samples · 13 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  With the vertex confidence and edge connectivity, we can naturally organize more relevant vertices on the affinity graph and group them into clusters.
• Ada-NETS: Face Clustering via Adaptive Neighbour Discovery in the Structure Space
  8 Feb 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 15 samples · 15 unverified
  In Ada-NETS, each face is transformed to a new structure space, obtaining robust features by considering face features of the neighbour images.
• AN ONLINE ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRAINED FACE CLUSTERING IN VIDEOS
  6 Sep 2018 2 repositories listed
  We address the problem of face clustering in long, real world videos.
• Scalable Sparse Subspace Clustering by Orthogonal Matching Pursuit
  5 Jul 2015 2 repositories listed
  Subspace clustering methods based on ℓ₁, ℓ₂ or nuclear norm regularization have become very popular due to their simplicity, theoretical guarantees and empirical success.
• Face Clustering via Early Stopping and Edge Recall
  24 Aug 2024 1 repository listed
  An efficient and effective neighbor-based edge probability and a novel early stopping strategy are proposed in FC-ES, guaranteeing the accuracy and recall of large-scale face clustering simultaneously.
• Local Connectivity-Based Density Estimation for Face Clustering
  1 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  For this purpose, we propose a reliable density estimation algorithm based on local connectivity between K nearest neighbors (KNN).
• Robust Graph Structure Learning via Multiple Statistical Tests
  8 Oct 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  A natural way to construct a graph among images is to treat each image as a node and assign pairwise image similarities as weights to corresponding edges.
• On Mitigating Hard Clusters for Face Clustering
  25 Jul 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  Face clustering is a promising way to scale up face recognition systems using large-scale unlabeled face images.
• FaceMap: Towards Unsupervised Face Clustering via Map Equation
  21 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  Face clustering is an essential task in computer vision due to the explosion of related applications such as augmented reality or photo album management.
• A Linkage-based Doubly Imbalanced Graph Learning Framework for Face Clustering
  6 Jul 2021 1 repository listed
  Although imbalance problem has been extensively studied, the impact of imbalanced data on GCN- based linkage prediction task is quite different, which would cause problems in two aspects: imbalanced linkage labels and…
• Structure-Aware Face Clustering on a Large-Scale Graph With 107 Nodes
  19 Jun 2021 1 repository listed
  To address the dilemma of large-scale training and efficient inference, we propose the STructure-AwaRe Face Clustering (STAR-FC) method.
• Structure-Aware Face Clustering on a Large-Scale Graph with 10⁷ Nodes
  24 Mar 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  To address the dilemma of large-scale training and efficient inference, we propose the STructure-AwaRe Face Clustering (STAR-FC) method.
• Dynamic Character Graph via Online Face Clustering for Movie Analysis
  29 Jul 2020 1 repository listed
  An effective approach to automated movie content analysis involves building a network (graph) of its characters.
• Video Face Clustering with Unknown Number of Clusters
  9 Aug 2019 1 repository listed
  Understanding videos such as TV series and movies requires analyzing who the characters are and what they are doing.
• An Internal Validity Index Based on Density-Involved Distance
  22 Mar 2019 1 repository listed
  One reason is that the measure of cluster separation does not consider the impact of outliers and neighborhood clusters.
• Self-Supervised Learning of Face Representations for Video Face Clustering
  3 Mar 2019 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we address video face clustering using unsupervised methods.
• Robust Subspace Clustering via Tighter Rank Approximation
  30 Oct 2015 1 repository listed
  For this nonconvex minimization problem, we develop an effective optimization procedure based on a type of augmented Lagrange multipliers (ALM) method.
• Shape Interaction Matrix Revisited and Robustified: Efficient Subspace Clustering with Corrupted and Incomplete Data
  9 Sep 2015 1 repository listed
  The Shape Interaction Matrix (SIM) is one of the earliest approaches to performing subspace clustering (i.
• Robust Subspace Clustering via Smoothed Rank Approximation
  18 Aug 2015 1 repository listed
  However, for many real-world applications, nuclear norm approximation to the rank function can only produce a result far from the optimum.

Syntology lines on 6 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.