Summary of Face Recognition under Low-Quality Conditions

Face Recognition is an efficient technique and one of the most liked biometric software application for the identification and verification of specific individual in a digital image by analysing and comparing patterns. This paper presents a survey on well-known techniques of face recognition. The primary goal of this review is to observe the performance of different face recognition algorithms such as SVM (Support Vector Machine), CNN (Convolutional Neural Network), Eigenface based algorithm, Gabor Wavelet, PCA (Principle Component Analysis) and HMM (Hidden Markov Model). It presents comparative analysis about the efficiency of each algorithm. This paper also figure out about various face recognition applications used in real world and face recognition challenges like Illumination Variation, Pose Variation, Occlusion, Expressions Variation, Low Resolution and Ageing in brief. Another interesting component covered in this paper is review of datasets available for face recognition. So, must needed survey of many recently introduced face recognition aspects and algorithms are presented.

Attendance marking in a classroom during a lecture is not only a onerous task but also a time consuming one at that. Due to an unusually high number of students present during the lecture there will always be a probability of proxy attendance(s).Attendance marking with conventional methods has been an area of challenge. The growing need of efficient and automatic techniques of marking attendance is a growing challenge in the area of face recognition. In recent years, the problem of automatic attendance marking has been widely addressed through the use of standard biometrics like fingerprint and Radio frequency Identification tags etc., However,these techniques lack the element of reliability. In this proposed project an automated attendance marking and management system is proposed by making use of face detection and recognition algorithms. Instead of using the conventional methods, this proposed system aims to develop an automated system that records the student’s attendance by using facial recognition technology. The main objective of this work is to make the attendance marking and management system efficient, time saving, simple and easy. Here faces will be recognized using face recognition algorithms. The processed image will then be compared against the existing stored record and then attendance is marked in the database accordingly. Compared to existing system traditional attendance marking system, this system reduces the workload of people. This proposed system will be implemented with 4 phases such as Image Capturing, Segmentation of group image and Face Detection, Face comparison and Recognition, Updating of Attendance in database.

Chapter 10 - Local plastic surgery-based face recognition using convolutional neural networks

The last decade has seen automatic face recognition evolve from small-scale research systems to a wide range of commercial products. Driven by the FERET face database and evaluation protocol, the currently best commercial systems achieve verification accuracies comparable to those of fingerprint recognizers. In these experiments, only frontal face images taken under controlled lighting conditions were used. As the use of face recognition systems expands toward less restricted environments, the development of algorithms for view and illumination invariant face recognition becomes important. However, the performance of current algorithms degrades significantly when tested across pose and illumination, as documented in a number of evaluations. In this chapter, we review previously proposed algorithms for pose and illumination invariant face recognition. We then describe in detail two successful appearance-based algorithms for face recognition across pose, eigen light-fields, and Bayesian face subregions. We furthermore show how both of these algorithms can be extended toward face recognition across pose and illumination.

Facial recognition is a feature that uses facial detection algorithms to detect a face and then invokes facial recognition algorithms to try to match the person’s face. First, a person’s face needs to be enrolled; during enrollment, the person’s facial details are saved in a database—in this case, a mobile phone. The facial recognition algorithm uses this database to match the currently presented face with the faces saved in the database. The efficiency of a facial recognition algorithm depends upon the speed at which it can detect and recognize faces. The problem we address in this paper is that a reliable, automated method for testing facial recognition features in mobile phones. Because the multimedia capabilities of smartphones have expanded phenomenally, the need for thoroughly testing facial recognition algorithms has become crucial. The uses of facial recognition can range from facial authentication for unlocking phones to security for a number of other applications. To meet these needs, a reliable, automated test for validating the facial recognition algorithms must be developed. The challenge for the software test team was to automate the test cases, which involve tilting the phone at specific angles from the test subject. The permissible angular movements of the phone are determined by the algorithmic specifications of the facial recognition algorithm. We tested scenarios involving multiple faces, motion blur, panning the phone in front of the test subject faces at various speeds, and so on. We adopted a robotic arm to perform the facial recognition test cases and developed software to program the robotic arm to test the phone’s facial recognition software for functionality, performance, and stability as well as adversarial tests. This paper discusses the computer vision use case for facial recognition and describes how we developed an automated facial recognition test suite using a robotic arm.

Facial recognition based systems are ubiquitous. From domestic to industrial usage, these automated methods have become an essential part of this digital world. The problem of face verification has been exhaustively researched, thereby producing some robust and accurate face recognition algorithms. Our present work investigates and relatively analyzes the effectiveness of eight such algorithms which have been widely studied and implemented in the research community. The performances of these techniques have been evaluated on six real-life facial databases, thereby providing baseline results for each one. Thus our comparative study not only analyzes the usefulness of each method but also would (hopefully) provide guidelines in designing application specific facial recognition techniques in the near future.

In recent years, technologies related to face recognition have achieved rapid development. Face recognition Algorithms using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in the field of deep learning have been improved compared with traditional ones in terms of recognition accuracy, anti-interference ability and the speediness of identification. The mature face recognition technology now plays a decisive role in many areas, and also one of the key technologies in the facilitation of unmanned supermarkets. However, most algorithms nowadays just use the face database in unrestricted scenes to train, verify and evaluate. Their performance in practical applications is not satisfactory enough. In this paper, we eager to find a face recognition algorithm and system that are more suitable for unmanned supermarket scenes. After in-depth analysis of the scene, we find out that motion blur and large-scale recognition are two important reasons why current algorithms do not perform well. Aim to solve these problems, we summarize and propose new algorithms based on the existing ones. The experimental results show that the algorithm has effective face recognition ability in unmanned supermarket.

Low-resolution face recognition is one of the research hotspots of face recognition today. It can be widely used in face recognition in various scenarios, such as identity verification at stations and classroom check-in. The prior art has achieved better performance in ideal scenarios, but detecting low-resolution images will make it difficult to recognize low-resolution human faces, and the accuracy will eventually decrease. This is why improving the accuracy of low-resolution face recognition (LRFR) is still challenging. We have finished the reasearch aim to solve the problem about LRFR. The super-resolution GAN (SRGAN) and enhanced super-resolution GAN (ESRGAN) used in this search. Comparing these methods, we finally obtain a model that can solve the low-precision problem of LRFR. Our system uses super-resolution reconstruction as the preprocessing step of the LRFR problem, and then uses Facenet to recognize the image. These data sets are Wild Face Tag (LFW), YouTube Face Database (YTF), and Wider Face Dataset. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the ESRGAN based on Facenet of the proposed system in the unconstrained natural environment is as high as 98.78%. At the same time, increase the number and speed of face detection, effectively realize the function of multiple face recognition, has practical application value and system robustness.

Depth information has been proven useful for face recognition. However, existing depth-image-based face recognition methods still suffer from noisy depth values and varying poses and expressions. In this paper, we propose a novel method for normalizing facial depth images to frontal pose and neutral expression and extracting robust features from the normalized depth images. The method is implemented via two deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN), normalization network (\(Net_{N}\)) and feature extraction network (\(Net_{F}\)). Given a facial depth image, \(Net_{N}\) first converts it to an HHA image, from which the 3D face is reconstructed via a DCNN. \(Net_{N}\) then generates a pose-and-expression normalized (PEN) depth image from the reconstructed 3D face. The PEN depth image is finally passed to \(Net_{F}\), which extracts a robust feature representation via another DCNN for face recognition. Our preliminary evaluation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in recognizing faces of arbitrary poses and expressions with depth images.

In recent days, there has been increasing need for recognition of unconstrained face images, such as those collected from the web or captured by mobile devices and video surveillance cameras. In such real world scenarios, human faces could be easily occluded by other objects that make the face recognition task as a complex one. Satisfactory performance has been achieved earlier but often only in the controlled environments. But it is very tedious to obtain holistic face images for unconstrained face recognition. Thus, in order to avoid the degradation of face images and the huge variations due to illumination, pose, occlusion and expression, a new Robust Face Recognition approach is proposed. In this approach, the partial face recognition using Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) technique is combined with Multi-directional Multi-level Dual Cross Patterns (DCP) technique that makes the recognition task as a robust one when compared to other face recognition approaches. Then, the Robust Point Set Matching (RPSM) is used to match the corresponding stable keypoints from both the gallery image and probe face image. Finally, PNN and K-NN classification are used to classify the face images even with the presence of occlusion, random partial crop, illumination, pose and exaggerated facial expression. The proposed robust face recognition system is evaluated based on the performance parameters such as sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, precision and recall.

A transformer-based low-resolution face recognition method via on-and-offline knowledge distillation

A novel feature selection strategy for improved face recognition in images with variations due to illumination conditions, facial expressions, and partial occlusions is presented in this dissertation. A hybrid face recognition system that uses feature maps of phase congruency and modular kernel spaces is developed. Phase congruency provides a measure that is independent of the overall magnitude of a signal, making it invariant to variations in image illumination and contrast. A novel modular kernel spaces approach is developed and implemented on the phase congruency feature maps. Smaller sub-regions from a predefined neighborhood within the phase congruency images of the training samples are merged to obtain a large set of features. These features are then projected into higher dimensional spaces using kernel methods. The unique modularization procedure developed in this research takes into consideration that the facial variations in a real world scenario are confined to local regions. The additional pixel dependencies that are considered based on their importance help in providing additional information for classification. This procedure also helps in robust localization of the variations, further improving classification accuracy. The effectiveness of the new feature selection strategy has been demonstrated by employing it in two specific applications via face authentication in low resolution cameras and face recognition using multiple sensors (visible and infrared). The face authentication system uses low quality images captured by a web camera. The optical sensor of the web camera is very sensitive to environmental illumination variations. It is observed that the feature selection policy overcomes the facial and environmental variations. A methodology based on multiple training images and clustering is also incorporated to overcome the additional challenges of computational efficiency and the subject's non involvement. A multi-sensor image fusion based face recognition methodology that uses the proposed feature selection technique is presented in this dissertation. Research studies have indicated that complementary information from different sensors helps in improving the recognition accuracy compared to individual modalities. A decision level fusion methodology is also developed which provides better performance compared to individual as well as data level fusion modalities. The new decision level fusion technique is also robust to registration discrepancies, which is a very important factor in operational scenarios. Research work is progressing to use the new face recognition technique in multi-view images by employing independent systems for separate views and integrating the results with an appropriate voting procedure.

Application of Face Recognition Method Under Deep Learning Algorithm in Embedded Systems

Based on neural network and local binary pattern algorithm, this paper builds a lightweight artificial face recognition system on chip Firefly-RK3399, with high speed, strong robustness and high recognition accuracy. Our embedded artificial intelligent face recognition system mainly consists of face detection, feature extraction and recognition. Multi-task convolutional neural network (MTCNN) under the CaffeOnACL framework is utilized for face detection, and the local binary pattern (LBP) is applied as face recognition algorithm. Experiments illustrate that our artificial intelligent embedded face recognition system has high speed and accuracy, which is easy-carrying and of high commercial value as well.

In this paper, it studies two critical technical links of face detection and face recognition in the recognition of face, and conducts analyses and comparisons on some commonly used face detections and recognition algorithms. Through the collation of this information and the combination of related knowledge in the digital image processing, it proposes a face recognition algorithm based on the singular value decomposition. After preprocessing face images, by the use of the projection method, it obtains positions of five sense organs, and then extracts local feature values near five sense organs as the main features of faces by using the singular value decomposition. For different face images of the same individual, the matching degree of feature values will be very high.KeywordsFace recognitionimage recognitionlocal informationfeature extraction