Title
Online learning from local features for video-based face recognition
Abstract
This paper presents an online learning approach to video-based face recognition that does not make any assumptions about the pose, expressions or prior localization of facial landmarks. Learning is performed online while the subject is imaged and gives near realtime feedback on the learning status. Face images are automatically clustered based on the similarity of their local features. The learning process continues until the clusters have a required minimum number of faces and the distance of the farthest face from its cluster mean is below a threshold. A voting algorithm is employed to pick the representative features of each cluster. Local features are extracted from arbitrary keypoints on faces as opposed to pre-defined landmarks and the algorithm is inherently robust to large scale pose variations and occlusions. During recognition, video frames of a probe are sequentially matched to the clusters of all individuals in the gallery and its identity is decided on the basis of best temporally cohesive cluster matches. Online experiments (using live video) were performed on a database of 50 enrolled subjects and another 22 unseen impostors. The proposed algorithm achieved a recognition rate of 97.8% and a verification rate of 100% at a false accept rate of 0.0014. For comparison, experiments were also performed using the Honda/UCSD database and 99.5% recognition rate was achieved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.patcog.2010.12.001
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
face image,voting algorithm,video-based face recognition,face recognition,proposed algorithm,local feature,cluster mean,farthest face,recognition rate,online learning,local features,best temporally cohesive cluster,clustering,verification rate
Signal processing,Expression (mathematics),Computer science,Image processing,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Similitude,Pattern recognition,Feature extraction,Biometrics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
5
Pattern Recognition
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.55
25
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ajmal Mian1587.53