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Head pose estimation is a crucial step for numerous face applications such as gaze tracking and face recognition. In this paper, we introduce a new method to learn the mapping between a set of features and the corresponding head pose. It combines a filter based feature selection and a Generalized Regression Neural Network where inputs are sequentially selected through a boosting process. We propose...
Face Recognition under uncontrolled illumination conditions is partly an unsolved problem. Several illumination correction methods have been proposed, but these are usually tested on illumination conditions created in a laboratory. Our focus is more on uncontrolled conditions. We use the Phong model which allows us to model ambient light in shadow areas. By estimating the face surface and illumination...
A new local feature based image representation method is proposed. It is derived from the local Gabor phase difference pattern (LGPDP). This method represents images by exploiting relationships of Gabor phase between pixel and its neighbors. There are two main contributions: 1) a novel phase difference measure is defined; 2) new encoding rules to mirror Gabor phase difference information are designed...
Palmprint as a new biometric has received great research attention in the past decades. It owns many merits, such as robustness, low cost, user friendliness, and high accuracy. Most of the current palmprint recognition systems use an active light to acquire clear palmprint images. Thus, light source is a key component in the system to capture enough of discriminant information for palmprint recognition...
Most biometric authentication algorithms make use of a similarity score that defines how similar two templates are according to a threshold and the accuracy of the results are expressed in terms of a False Reject Rate (FRR) or False Accept Rate (FAR) that is estimated using the training data set. A confidence interval is assigned to any claim of accuracy with 90% being commonly assumed for biometric-based...
In this paper, we propose a supervised Smooth Multi-Manifold Embedding (SMME) method for robust identity-independent head pose estimation. In order to handle the appearance variations caused by identity, we consider the pose data space as multiple manifolds in which each manifold characterizes the underlying subspace of subjects with similar appearance. We then propose a novel embedding criterion...
The estimation of human age from face images is an interesting problem in computer vision. We proposed a general distance metric learning scheme for regression problems, which utilizes not only data themselves, but also their corresponding labels to strengthen the credibility of distances. This metric could be learned by solving an optimization problem. Furthermore, the test data could be projected...
In this paper, we consider the problem of face detection under pose variations. Unlike other contributions, a focus of this work resides within efficient implementation utilizing the computational powers of modern graphics cards. The proposed system consists of a parallelized implementation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with a special emphasize on also parallelizing the detection process...
This paper proposes Gaussian weak classifiers (GWCs) for use in real-time face detection systems. GWCs are based on Haar-like features (HFs) with four rectangles (HF4s), which constitute the majority of the HFs used to train a face detector. To label an image as face or clutter (non-face), GWC uses the responses of the two HF2s in a HF4 to compute a Mahalanobis distance which is later compared to...
This paper describes a comprehensive approach to extract a common feature set from the image sequences. We use simple features which are easily extracted from a 3D wireframe model and efficiently used for different applications on a benchmark database. Features verstality is experimented on facial expressions recognition, face reognition and gender classification. We experiment different combinations...
We propose a new method for analyzing the dynamics of facial expressions to identify persons using Active Appearance Models and accurate facial feature point tracking. Several methods have been proposed to identify persons using facial images. In most methods, variations in facial expressions are one trouble factor. However, the dynamics of facial expressions are one measure of personal characteristics...
We propose a low-complexity face synthesis technique which transforms a 2D frontal view image into views at specific poses, without recourse to computationally expensive 3D analysis or iterative fitting techniques that may fail to converge. The method first divides a given image into multiple overlapping blocks, followed by synthesising a non-frontal representation through applying a multivariate...
Palmprint authentication is becoming one of the most important biometric techniques because of its high accuracy and ease to use. The features on palm, including the palm lines, ridges and textures, etc., are resulted from the gray scale variance of the palmprint images. This paper characterizes these variance using different order differential operations. To avoid the effect of the illumination variance,...
In this paper, we present a novel hybrid feature for face recognition. This hybrid feature is created by combining the traditional holistic facial appearance feature with a recently proposed facial dynamics feature. We measure and compare the inherent discriminating power of this hybrid feature and the holistic facial appearance feature by the statistical separability between genuine feature distance...
This paper investigates a new automated personal authentication technique using finger-knuckle-print (FKP) imaging. First, a specific data acquisition device is developed to capture the FKP images. The local convex direction map of the FKP image is then extracted, based on which a coordinate system is defined to align the images and a region of interest (ROI) is cropped for feature extraction and...
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