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Beyond Frontal Faces: Improving Person Recognition Using Multiple Cues
We explore the task of recognizing peoples' identities in photo albums in an
unconstrained setting. To facilitate this, we introduce the new People In Photo
Albums (PIPA) dataset, consisting of over 60000 instances of 2000 individuals
collected from public Flickr photo albums. With only about half of the person
images containing a frontal face, the recognition task is very challenging due
to the large variations in pose, clothing, camera viewpoint, image resolution
and illumination. We propose the Pose Invariant PErson Recognition (PIPER)
method, which accumulates the cues of poselet-level person recognizers trained
by deep convolutional networks to discount for the pose variations, combined
with a face recognizer and a global recognizer. Experiments on three different
settings confirm that in our unconstrained setup PIPER significantly improves
on the performance of DeepFace, which is one of the best face recognizers as
measured on the LFW dataset
Exploring the impact of user involvement on health and social care services for cancer in the UK.
This report presents the findings from a study of cancer network partnership groups in the UK. Cancer network partnership groups are regional organisations set up to enable joint working between people affected by cancer and health professionals, with the aim of improving cancer care
Unpaid carers’ access to and use of primary care services
GPs and members of the primary care team have a pivotal role in supporting unpaid carers in their caring role and helping them to maintain their own health and well-being. This paper investigates the difference that caregiving makes to individuals’ access to and use of GP and primary care services. It is based on longitudinal analysis of carers’ contacts with GPs, and a review of the literature including evaluations of measures to improve primary care-based support for carers. Men increase their consultation rates with GPs when taking on a caring role. In contrast, women who look after someone in the same household and carry heavy caring responsibilities have relatively less contact with GPs than expected. According to the literature, carers report a range of difficulties accessing primary health care. A fivefold typology is described covering barriers arising from: professional responses to the carers’ role, the way services are organised and delivered, language or culturally held beliefs and practices, carer or care recipient characteristics, and unmet information needs. Various measures to improve carers’ access to primary care have been introduced to overcome these barriers, but robust evidence of cost and utility is required to judge their acceptability and effectiveness for both carers and GPs. Although good practice guides, quality standards and evaluation tools are available to help improve primary care support for carers, further investigation of carers’ help-seeking for health care, and the factors involved, is required to underpin the prospects for developing a genuine partnership between unpaid carers and health professionals
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