Unconstrained Face Recognition Using a Set-to-Set Distance Measure on Deep Learned Features

Zhao, Jiaojiao, Han, Jungong and Shao, Ling (2018) Unconstrained Face Recognition Using a Set-to-Set Distance Measure on Deep Learned Features. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 28 (10). pp. 2679-2689. ISSN 1051-8215

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/tcsvt.2017.2710120

Abstract

Recently considerable efforts have been dedicated to unconstrained face recognition, which requires to identify faces “in the wild” for a set of images and/or video frames captured without human intervention. Unlike traditional face recognition that compares one-to-one media (either a single image or a video frame) only, we encounter a problem of matching sets with heterogeneous contents containing both images and videos. In this paper, we propose a novel set-to-set (S2S) distance measure to calculate the similarity between two sets with the aim to improve the recognition accuracy for faces with real-world challenges, such as extreme poses or severe illumination conditions. Our S2S distance adopts the kNN-average pooling for the similarity scores computed on all the media in two sets, making the identification far less susceptible to the poor representations (outliers) than traditional feature-average pooling and score-average pooling. Furthermore, we show that various metrics can be embedded into our S2S distance framework, including both predefined and learned ones. This allows to choose the appropriate metric depending on the recognition task in order to achieve the best results. To evaluate the proposed S2S distance, we conduct extensive experiments on the challenging set-based IJB-A face data set, which demonstrate that our algorithm achieves the state-of-the-art results and is clearly superior to the baselines, including several deep learning-based face recognition algorithms.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering
J900 Others in Technology
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 03 May 2019 14:18
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 11:47
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/39186

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