BEIJING, April 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI, Inc.
(NASDAQ: IQ) ("iQIYI" or the "Company"), an innovative
market-leading online entertainment service in China, announced that team registration is now
open for its iCartoonFace Challenge (the "Challenge"), a cartoon
character recognition competition held in partnership with
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 (The 29th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific
Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) The
Challenge is the first large-scale cartoon character recognition
competition to be held in China,
and is open for participation to teams from all over the world. The
Challenge consists of two tracks - iCartoonFace Detection Challenge
and iCartoonFace Recognition Challenge, and teams may choose to
participate in one or both tracks.
iQIYI has in the past two years successfully held two
video-based multimodal biometric recognition challenges, which
helped significantly improve the accuracy of the multimodal
recognition technology. With the cartoon character recognition
challenge, iQIYI is once again at the vanguard of technological
innovation, spurring the exploration and application of cartoon
character recognition.
Data quality is one of the key factors affecting the training of
deep learning algorithms, but existing cartoon datasets suffer from
issues such as lack of data volume or noisy data. To support
contestants to train their algorithms models, iQIYI will provide
them with iCartoonFace detection and recognition datasets. The
iCartoonFace detection dataset is the largest known manually tagged
dataset for cartoon character detection. It contains a training
dataset of 50,000 images and 91,163 cartoon faces as well as a test
dataset of 10,000 images and 18,647 cartoon faces, whereas the
iCartoonFace recognition dataset is the largest known manually
tagged dataset for cartoon character recognition, containing 5,013
cartoon characters and 389,678 images. After manual tagging and
multi-layer quality control, both datasets can guarantee an
accuracy rate of at least 95%, which greatly enhances the precision
of the test data for the competition.
Online registration will open through till May 14, and participating teams will be ranked
based on an objective assessment and expert panel scoring. The top
three teams in each challenge track will be awarded a cash prize of
US$4,000, US$2,000 and US$1,000 respectively.
While character recognition technology in general is relatively
mature, cartoon character recognition is an industry still in its
infancy. In 2019, the animation industry in China was worth RMB
194.1 billion (US$27.6
billion), up 13.38% from a year earlier, according to the
Qianzhan Industry Institute's Report on the Prospects of and
Investment Strategy Planning for China's Animation Industry. As the
animation industry rapidly advances, the first step for the
intelligent understanding and even smart creation of cartoon videos
is to identify the cartoon characters in them. The Challenge will
help further optimize cartoon character recognition algorithms and
enhance their accuracy, contributing to the gradual standardization
of the whole field.
IJCAI and PRICAI, both leading academic conferences on
artificial intelligence, bring together a large number of AI
experts from all over the world every year. iQIYI is committed to
researching cutting-edge technologies and exploring the
applications of new technologies in entertainment. At present,
cartoon character recognition has been applied to iQIYI's actual
businesses, such as allowing users to identify the cartoon
characters in the animation through a feature known as Qiguan (AI
Radar).
iQIYI strives to build creative applications around cartoon
characters like expressions, clips and lip-synchronization, and by
holding the iCartoonFace Challenge, IQIYI will further promote the
development of cartoon character recognition technology, thereby
creating a better environment for the deep integration of
technology and content and opening up more diverse scenarios for
cartoon character recognition.
Teams that wish to participate in the challenge can sign up at:
http://challenge.ai.iqiyi.com/detail?raceId=5def71b4e9fcf68aef76a75e
About iQIYI, Inc.
iQIYI, Inc. is an innovative market-leading online entertainment
service in China. Its corporate
DNA combines creative talent with technology, fostering an
environment for continuous innovation and the production of
blockbuster content. iQIYI's platform features highly popular
original content, as well as a comprehensive library of other
professionally-produced content, partner-generated content and user
generated content. The Company distinguishes itself in the online
entertainment industry by its leading technology platform powered
by advanced AI, big data analytics and other core proprietary
technologies. iQIYI attracts a massive user base with tremendous
user engagement, and has developed a diversified monetization model
including membership services, online advertising services, content
distribution, live broadcasting, online games, IP licensing, online
literature and e-commerce.
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