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Multi-View Face Recognition From Single RGBD Models of the Faces
This work takes important steps towards solving the following problem of current interest: Assuming that each individual in a population can be modeled by a single frontal RGBD face image, is it possible to carry out face recognition for such a population using multiple 2D images captured from arbitrary viewpoints? Although the general problem as stated above is extremely challenging, it encompasses subproblems that can be addressed today. The subproblems addressed in this work relate to: (1) Generating a large set of viewpoint dependent face images from a single RGBD frontal image for each individual; (2) using hierarchical approaches based on view-partitioned subspaces to represent the training data; and (3) based on these hierarchical approaches, using a weighted voting algorithm to integrate the evidence collected from multiple images of the same face as recorded from different viewpoints. We evaluate our methods on three datasets: a dataset of 10 people that we created and two publicly available datasets which include a total of 48 people. In addition to providing important insights into the nature of this problem, our results show that we are able to successfully recognize faces with accuracies of 95% or higher, outperforming existing state-of-the-art face recognition approaches based on deep convolutional neural networks
Matching Image Sets via Adaptive Multi Convex Hull
Traditional nearest points methods use all the samples in an image set to
construct a single convex or affine hull model for classification. However,
strong artificial features and noisy data may be generated from combinations of
training samples when significant intra-class variations and/or noise occur in
the image set. Existing multi-model approaches extract local models by
clustering each image set individually only once, with fixed clusters used for
matching with various image sets. This may not be optimal for discrimination,
as undesirable environmental conditions (eg. illumination and pose variations)
may result in the two closest clusters representing different characteristics
of an object (eg. frontal face being compared to non-frontal face). To address
the above problem, we propose a novel approach to enhance nearest points based
methods by integrating affine/convex hull classification with an adapted
multi-model approach. We first extract multiple local convex hulls from a query
image set via maximum margin clustering to diminish the artificial variations
and constrain the noise in local convex hulls. We then propose adaptive
reference clustering (ARC) to constrain the clustering of each gallery image
set by forcing the clusters to have resemblance to the clusters in the query
image set. By applying ARC, noisy clusters in the query set can be discarded.
Experiments on Honda, MoBo and ETH-80 datasets show that the proposed method
outperforms single model approaches and other recent techniques, such as Sparse
Approximated Nearest Points, Mutual Subspace Method and Manifold Discriminant
Analysis.Comment: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),
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Learning Robust and Discriminative Manifold Representations for Pattern Recognition
Face and object recognition find applications in domains such as biometrics, surveillance and human computer interaction. An important component in any recognition pipeline is to learn pertinent image representations that will help the system to discriminate one image class from another. These representations enable the system to learn a discriminative function that can classify a wide range of images. In practical situations, the images acquired are often corrupted with occlusions and noise. Thus, a robust and discriminative learning is necessary for good classification performance.
This thesis explores two scenarios where robust and discriminative manifold representations help recognize face and object images. On one hand learning robust manifold projections enables the system to adapt to images across different domains including cases with noise and occlusions. And on the other hand learning discriminative manifold representations aid in image set comparison.
The first contribution of this thesis is a robust approach to visual domain adaptation by learning a subspace with L1 principal component analysis (PCA) and L1 Grassmannian with applications to object and face recognition. Mapping data from different domains on a low dimensional subspace through PCA is a common step in subspace based unsupervised domain adaptation. Subspaces extracted by PCA are prone to be affected by outliers that lead to noisy projections. A robust subspace learning through L1-PCA helps in improving performance. The proposed approach was tested on the office, Caltech - 256, Yale-A and AT&T datasets. Results indicate the improvement of classification accuracy for face and object recognition task.
The second contribution of this thesis is a biologically motivated manifold learning framework for image set classification by independent component analysis (ICA) for Grassmann manifolds. It has been discovered that the simple cells in the visual cortex learn spatially localized image representations. Similar representations can be learnt using ICA.
Motivated by the manifold hypothesis, a Grassmann manifold is learnt using the independent components which enables compact representation through linear subspaces. The efficacy of the proposed approach is demonstrated for image set classification on face and object recognition datasets such as AT&T, extended Yale, labelled faces in the wild and ETH - 80
A framework of face recognition with set of testing images
We propose a novel framework to solve the face recognition problem base on set of testing images. Our framework can handle the case that no pose overlap between training set and query set. The main techniques used in this framework are manifold alignment, face normalization and discriminant learning. Experiments on different databases show our system outperforms some state of the art methods
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