Automatically extract actors from images and insert them into a network map with MyNetworkmap

Submitted by adminnwkdocume… on Thu, 08/04/2022 - 08:09

 

Actor images: face detection

In the following text, you will learn how MyNetworkmap automatically extracts actors from images using face detection and inserts them into a network map.

 

Please, open the network map visualization module. Then open the "Actors" subsection in the side menu and click on "Import actors from image":

Import actors

After that, click "Browse" in the popup dialog and select an image file. You can select png or jpg files that are smaller than 5MB:

Load an image

Then, the actors are extracted and plotted on the network map. The positions of the actors correspond to the positions on the original image:

Import result

 

Now you can, for example, draw in the relationships between the actors:

Add relations