Learning from the Past: Meta-Continual Learning with Knowledge Embedding for Jointly Sketch, Cartoon, and Caricature Face Recognition

This paper deals with a challenging task of learning from different modalities by tackling the difficulty problem of jointly face recognition between abstract-like sketches, cartoons, caricatures and real-life photographs. Due to the significant variations in the abstract faces, building vision models for recognizing data from these modalities is an extremely challenging. We propose a novel framework termed as Meta-Continual Learning with Knowledge Embedding to address the task of jointly sketch, cartoon, and caricature face recognition. In particular, we firstly present a deep relational network to capture and memorize the relation among different samples. Secondly, we present the construction of our knowledge graph that relates image with the label as the guidance of our meta-learner. We then design a knowledge embedding mechanism to incorporate the knowledge representation into our network. Thirdly, to mitigate catastrophic forgetting, we use a meta-continual model that updates our ensemble model and improves its prediction accuracy. With this meta-continual model, our network can learn from its past. The final classification is derived from our network by learning to compare the features of samples. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves significantly higher performance compared with other state-of-the-art approaches.