Title
Robust Face Recognition with Deeply Normalized Depth Images.
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-97909-0_45
BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION, CCBR 2018
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Depth images,Face recognition,Pose and expression normalization
Conference
10996
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ziqing Feng100.68
Qijun Zhao241938.37