Pose, illumination and expression invariant pairwise face-similarity measure via Doppelgnger list comparison
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Face recognition approaches have traditionally focused on direct comparisons between aligned images, e.g. using pixel values or local image features. Such comparisons become prohibitively difficult when comparing faces across extreme differences in pose, illumination and expression. The goal of this work is to develop a face-similarity measure that is largely invariant to these differences. We propose a novel data driven method based on the insight that comparing images of faces is most meaningful when they are in comparable imaging conditions. To this end we describe an image of a face by an ordered list of identities from a Library. The order of the list is determined by the similarity of the Library images to the probe image. The lists act as a signature for each face image: similarity between face images is determined via the similarity of the signatures. Here the CMU Multi-PIE database, which includes images of 337 individuals in more than 2000 pose, lighting and illumination combinations, serves as the Library. We show improved performance over state of the art face-similarity measures based on local features, such as FPLBP, especially across large pose variations on FacePix and multi-PIE. On LFW we show improved performance in comparison with measures like SIFT (on fiducials), LBP, FPLBP and Gabor (C1).
Original language | English |
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Journal | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision |
Pages (from-to) | 2494-2501 |
Number of pages | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2011 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 6 Nov 2011 → 13 Nov 2011 |
Conference
Conference | 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2011 |
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Country | Spain |
City | Barcelona |
Period | 06/11/2011 → 13/11/2011 |
Sponsor | TOYOTA, Google, Microsoft Research, Siemens, technicolor |
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