Title
Boosting Face Recognition in Real-World Surveillance Videos
Abstract
Face recognition becomes a challenging problem in real-world surveillance videos where the low-resolution probe frames exhibit variations in pose, lighting condition, and facial expressions. This is in contrast with the gallery images which are generally frontal view faces acquired under controlled environments. A direct matching of probe images with gallery data often leads to poor recognition accuracy due to the significant discrepancy between the two kinds of data. In addition, the artifacts such as low resolution, blurriness and noise further enlarge this discrepancy. In this paper, we propose a video based face recognition framework using a novel image representation called warped average face (WAF). The WAFs are generated in two stages: in-sequence warping and frontal view warping. The WAFs can be easily used with various feature descriptors or classifiers. As compared to the original probe data, the image quality of the WAFs is significantly better and the appearance difference between the WAFs and the gallery data is suppressed. Given a probe sequence, only a few WAFs need to be generated for the recognition purpose. We test the proposed method on the ChokePoint dataset and our in-house dataset of surveillance quality. Experiments show that with the new image representation, the recognition accuracy can be boosted significantly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/AVSS.2012.17
Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
Keywords
Field
DocType
recognition purpose,low-resolution probe frames exhibit,face recognition framework,gallery data,recognition accuracy,face recognition,probe sequence,poor recognition accuracy,original probe data,boosting face recognition,probe image,real-world surveillance videos,lighting
Computer vision,Facial recognition system,Image warping,Pattern recognition,Three-dimensional face recognition,Image matching,Computer science,Image representation,Image quality,Facial expression,Artificial intelligence,Boosting (machine learning)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2499-1
2
0.36
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Le An121711.24
Bir Bhanu23356380.19
Songfan Yang334317.48