BEIJING, June 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- iQIYI Inc.
(NASDAQ: IQ) ("iQIYI" or the "Company"), an innovative
market-leading online entertainment service in China, today announced the winners of its
iCartoonFace Challenge (the "Challenge"), the first large-scale
cartoon character recognition competition in China. The team from Southeast University won
the Challenge with a MAP (Mean Average Precision) of 0.9291 in the
cartoon character detection track and the teams from Zhejiang University and Sun Yat-sen University jointly claimed the title
of Best Algorithm in the cartoon character recognition track with a
Rank1 accuracy of 92.4697%.
The Challenge, held in partnership with the 29th International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the 17th
Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(PRICAI), was held over a period of two months, attracting a total
of 481 participating teams from top universities and leading
technology firms in China.
Contestants included Peking University, Fudan University,
Zhejiang University, Shanghai
Jiaotong University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, as
well as renowned companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD.com and SenseTime.
While human facial recognition technology is becoming
increasingly sophisticated and mature, cartoon character
recognition is still in its infancy. Cartoon characters are far
more complicated and diverse than human faces in terms of both
color and texture. Other challenges include the fact that cartoon
characters from the same content or universe could be highly
similar in appearance, but characters from different universes may
vastly contrast. Due to the complexity of this dataset, cartoon
character recognition poses far more challenges than human facial
recognition.
Currently, most of the existing cartoon datasets for recognition
suffer from issues such as lack of data volume or noisy data.
During the Challenge, iQIYI offered contestants access to the
largest known manually tagged datasets in the world for cartoon
detection and recognition that contains over 5,000 cartoon
characters and more than 400,000 high-quality and authentic
images.
iQIYI is committed to researching cutting-edge technologies and
exploring their applications in entertainment. iQIYI has in the
past two years successfully held two video-based multimodal
biometric recognition challenges which helped significantly improve
the accuracy of multimodal recognition technology. Currently,
cartoon character recognition has been applied to multiple
innovative businesses and features of iQIYI's. For example, AIWorks
can automatically collect cartoon character content to generate a
mixed-cut video based on a specific theme; and a feature known as
Qiguan (AI Radar) allows users to identify the cartoon characters
in an animated show or movie.
Through the iCartoonFace Challenge held in partnership with
IJCAI and PRICAI, iQIYI has achieved further breakthroughs in the
field of cartoon detection and recognition, promoted the
development of cartoon character recognition technology, enabled a
deep integration of technology and content that could lead to more
usage scenarios, thereby advancing the ongoing evolution of
intelligent detection and recognition technology.
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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