Fusion of Hash-Based Hard and Soft Biometrics for Enhancing Face Image Database Search and Retrieval

作     者：Ameerah Abdullah Alshahrani Emad Sami Jaha Nahed Alowidi 

作者机构：Department of Computer ScienceFaculty of Computing and Information TechnologyKing Abdulaziz UniversityJeddah21589Saudi Arabia 

出 版 物：《Computers, Materials & Continua》 (计算机、材料和连续体（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第77卷第12期

页      面：3489-3509页

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学科分类：08[工学] 080203[工学-机械设计及理论] 0802[工学-机械工程] 

基　　金：supported and funded by KAU Scientific Endowment King Abdulaziz University Jeddah Saudi Arabia grant number 077416-04 

主　　题：Face image retrieval soft biometrics similar pictures hashing database search large databases score-level fusion multimodal fusion 

摘      要：The utilization of digital picture search and retrieval has grown substantially in numerous fields for different purposes during the last decade,owing to the continuing advances in image processing and computer vision *** multiple real-life applications,for example,social media,content-based face picture retrieval is a well-invested technique for large-scale databases,where there is a significant necessity for reliable retrieval capabilities enabling quick search in a vast number of *** widely employ faces for recognizing and identifying ***,face recognition through formal or personal pictures is increasingly used in various real-life applications,such as helping crime investigators retrieve matching images from face image databases to identify victims and ***,such face image retrieval becomes more challenging in large-scale databases,where traditional vision-based face analysis requires ample additional storage space than the raw face images already occupied to store extracted lengthy feature vectors and takes much longer to process and match thousands of face *** work mainly contributes to enhancing face image retrieval performance in large-scale databases using hash codes inferred by locality-sensitive hashing(LSH)for facial hard and soft biometrics as(Hard BioHash)and(Soft BioHash),respectively,to be used as a search input for retrieving the top-k matching ***,we propose the multi-biometric score-level fusion of both face hard and soft BioHashes(Hard-Soft BioHash Fusion)for further augmented face image *** experimental outcomes applied on the Labeled Faces in the Wild(LFW)dataset and the related attributes dataset(LFW-attributes),demonstrate that the retrieval performance of the suggested fusion approach(Hard-Soft BioHash Fusion)significantly improved the retrieval performance compared to solely using Hard BioHash or Soft BioHash in isolation,where the suggested method provides an augmented