Title
Using the original and 'symmetrical face' training samples to perform representation based two-step face recognition
Abstract
A limited number of available training samples have become one bottleneck of face recognition. In real-world applications, the face image might have various changes owing to varying illumination, facial expression and poses. However, non-sufficient training samples cannot comprehensively convey these possible changes, so it is hard to improve the accuracy of face recognition. In this paper, we propose to exploit the symmetry of the face to generate new samples and devise a representation based method to perform face recognition. The new training samples really reflect some possible appearance of the face. The devised representation based method simultaneously uses the original and new training samples to perform a two-step classification, which ultimately uses a small number of classes that are 'near' to the test sample to represent and classify it and has a similar advantage as the sparse representation method. This method also takes advantages of the score level fusion, which has proven to be very competent and usually performs better than the decision level and feature level fusion. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art face recognition methods including the sparse representation classification (SRC), linear regression classification (LRC), collaborative representation (CR) and two-phase test sample sparse representation (TPTSSR). © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.patcog.2012.11.003
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pattern recognition,Face recognition,Sparse representation method
Small number,Bottleneck,Facial recognition system,Pattern recognition,Three-dimensional face recognition,Computer science,Sparse approximation,Exploit,Facial expression,Artificial intelligence,Face detection,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
4
0031-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
63
1.28
40
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xu Yong1211973.51
Xingjie Zhu2881.84
Zhengming Li31524.38
Guanghai Liu460018.17
Yuwu Lu519612.50
Hong Liu674782.65