<title>Effects of compression and individual variability on face recognition performance</title>

Face recognition at a distance is one grand challenge for security surveillance. In this paper, the face images at different distances are simulated by varying image scales (resolutions). The performances of three face recognition algorithms (matchers) are tested with variant image scales (simulating different distances) and with two spectral images (modalities). The three selected matchers are face pattern byte, elastic bunch graph matching, and linear discriminant analysis; while the two modalities are visible and thermal images. The performance of a face recognition system can be measured by accuracy (AC) rate and false accept rate (FAR). To enhance the performance of face recognition especially at a distance, score fusion techniques are applied, which combine several scores from multiple matchers and multiple modalities. Our experiments are conducted with the ASUMS face dataset consisting of two spectral images (visible and thermal) from 135 subjects. The experimental results show that the face recognition with small image scales (simulating long distances) have low performance (e.g., AC=91.36%, FAR=8.64% for 20×20-pixel images); and score fusion can greatly improve accuracy (99.34%) meanwhile reduce FAR (0.31%).

Face aging simulation and recognition based on NMF algorithm with sparseness constraints

Illumination, pose variations, disguises, aging effects and expression variations are some of the key factors that affect the performance of face recognition systems. Face recognition systems have always been studied from a recognition perspective. Our emphasis is on deriving a measure of similarity between faces. The similarity measure provides insights into the role each of the above mentioned variations play in affecting the performance of face recognition systems. In the process of computing the similarity measure between faces, we suggest a framework to compensate for pose variations and introduce the notion of 'half-faces' to circumvent the problem of non-uniform illumination. We used the similarity measure to retrieve similar faces from a database containing multiple images of individuals. Moreover, we devised experiments to study the effect age plays in affecting facial similarity. In conclusion, the similarity measure helps in studying the significance facial features play in affecting the performance of face recognition systems.

Smart Library Automation System is increasingly attractive as an effective digital library system. Adapting automation in the library helps reduce the duplication of work, time-saving, and boosts work efficiency. One such significant feature is face recognition integrated. With this application, the system can use face recognition to enter and get the details of an end user. In recent years, face recognition has achieved many prodigious accomplishments based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN). In addition to constructing large face datasets, designing new effective DCNN architectures and loss functions are two trends to improve the performance of face recognition systems. Therefore, many studies have been published in state-of-the-art methods, making high-accuracy face recognition systems more possible than days in the past. However, it is still difficult for all research communities to train robust face recognition models because it depends heavily on their resources. This paper investigates and analyzes the effect of several effective loss functions based on softmax. Moreover, we also evaluate how hyper-parameter settings can impact the optimization process as well as the final recognition performance of the model trained by re-implementing these methods. The results of our experiments achieve state-of-the-art figures, which show the proposed method’s massive potential in improving face recognition performance. KeywordsFace recognitionDCNNEffective loss function

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The literature on independent component analysis (ICA)-based face recognition generally evaluates its performance using standard principal component analysis (PCA) within two architectures, ICA Architecture I and ICA Architecture II. In this correspondence, we analyze these two ICA architectures and find that ICA Architecture I involves a vertically centered PCA process (PCA I), while ICA Architecture II involves a whitened horizontally centered PCA process (PCA II). Thus, it makes sense to use these two PCA versions as baselines to reevaluate the performance of ICA-based face-recognition systems. Experiments on the FERET, AR, and AT&T face-image databases showed no significant differences between ICA Architecture I (II) and PCA I (II), although ICA Architecture I (or II) may, in some cases, significantly outperform standard PCA. It can be concluded that the performance of ICA strongly depends on the PCA process that it involves. Pure ICA projection has only a trivial effect on performance in face recognition.

The performance of face recognition systems can be dramatically degraded when the pose of the probe face is different from the gallery face. In this paper, we present a pose robust face recognition model, centered on modeling how face patches change in appearance as the viewpoint varies. We present a novel model based on two robust local appearance descriptors, Gabor wavelets and Local Binary Patterns (LBP). These two descriptors have been widely exploited for face recognition and different strategies for combining them have been investigated. However, to the best of our knowledge, all existing combination methods are designed for frontal face recognition. We introduce a local statistical framework for face recognition across pose variations, given only one frontal reference image. The method is evaluated on the Feret pose dataset and experimental results show that we achieve very high recognition rates over the wide range of pose variations presented in this challenging dataset.

The performance of face recognition (FR) systems for video surveillance has been shown to improve when the design data is augmented through synthetic face generation. This is true, for instance, with pair-wise matchers (e.g., deep Siamese networks) that rely on a reference gallery, typically with one still image per individual. However, generating synthetic images based on stills (from the source domain) may not improve performance during operations due to the domain shift w.r.t. the target domain. Moreover, despite the emergence of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for realistic synthetic generation, it is often difficult to control the conditions under which synthetic faces are generated. In this paper, a cross-domain face synthesis approach is proposed that integrates a new Controllable GAN (C-GAN). It employs an off-the-shelf 3D face model as a simulator to generate facial images under various poses. The simulated images and noise are input to the C-GAN for realism refinement. It relies on an additional adversarial game as a third player to preserve the identity and specific facial attributes of the refined images. This allows generating realistic synthetic face images that reflect capture conditions in the target domain, while controlling the GAN output such that faces may be generated under desired pose conditions. Experiments were performed using videos from the Chokepoint and COX-S2V datasets, and a deep Siamese network for FR with a single reference still per person. Results indicate that the proposed approach can provide a higher level of accuracy compared to state- of-the-art approaches for synthetic data augmentation1.

The performance of face recognition system degrades when the variability of the acquired faces increases. Prior work alleviates this issue by either monitoring the face quality in pre-processing or predicting the data uncertainty along with the face feature. This paper proposes MagFace, a category of losses that learn a universal feature embedding whose magnitude can measure the quality of the given face. Under the new loss, it can be proven that the magnitude of the feature embedding monotonically increases if the subject is more likely to be recognized. In addition, Mag-Face introduces an adaptive mechanism to learn a well-structured within-class feature distributions by pulling easy samples to class centers while pushing hard samples away. This prevents models from overfitting on noisy low-quality samples and improves face recognition in the wild. Extensive experiments conducted on face recognition, quality assessments as well as clustering demonstrate its superiority over state-of-the-arts. The code is available at https://github.com/IrvingMeng/MagFace.

Prior research has shown that the performance of face recognition systems in variant expression condition degrade seriously compared with invariant expression condition. Face recognition with variant expression is a challenging problem. In this paper, SIFT method is proposed to research on face recognition with variant expression. Two experiments using SIFT method are performed on a variant expression face database. In experiment 1, two images of one person with different expression are compared. In experiment 2, two images of different persons with the same expression are compared. Experimental results show that SIFT method could overcome the whole comparability of different faces and extract the local detail features of face. The experiment demostrates the huge potential of SIFT method in application to face recognition with variant expression.

In recent years, the performances of face recognition have been improved significantly by using convolution neural networks (CNN) as the feature extractors. On the other hands, in order to avoid spreading COVID-19 virus, people would wear mask even when they want to pass the face recognition system. Thus, it is necessary to improve the performance of masked face recognition so that users could utilize face recognition methods more easily. In this paper, we propose a feature extraction backbone named ResSaNet that integrates CNN (especially Residual block) and Self-attention module into the same network. By capturing the local and global information of face area simultaneously, our proposed ResSaNet could achieve promising results on both masked and non-masked testing data.

Pose variation which brings illumination change, occlusion and non-linear scale variation, dramatically drops the performance of face recognition systems. In this paper, we propose a novel pose invariant face recognition method, in which we build a joint sparse coding scheme to predict face images from a certain pose to another. By introducing autoregressive regularization and symmetric information, our algorithm could achieve high robustness to local misalignment and large pose differences. Besides, we propose a new coarse pose estimation algorithm by collaborative representation classifier, which is very fast and enough accurate for our synthesis algorithm. The experiment results on multi-pose subsets of CMU-PIE and FERET database show the efficiency of the proposed method on multi-pose face recognition.

In recent years much advancement have been made in face recognition techniques to cater to the challenges such as pose, expression, illumination, aging and disguise. However, due to advances in technology, there are new emerging challenges for which the performance of face recognition systems degrades and plastic/cosmetic surgery is one of them. In this paper we comment on the effect of plastic surgery face image in multimodal biometric face recognition using speech signal. Speaker identity is correlated with the physiological and behavioral characteristics of the speaker. Selecting the most effective fusion techniques depends on operational issues such as accuracy requirements, availability of training data, and the validity of simplifying assumptions.

At present, the performance of face recognition system depends much on the variations in illumination. To solve this problem, this paper presents an adaptable face recognition approach that uses filter fusion representation. The key idea is to use context-aware filter fusion to get better image from a bad illumination one. Genetic algorithm is the tool for adaptation for individual context category. These can provide robust face recognition on illumination context-awareness under uneven environments. Gabor wavelet representation can also provide a robust feature for image enhancement. Using these approaches, we have developed a robust face recognition technique that can recognize with a notable success and it has been tested on Inha DB and FERET face images.