Achieving the upper limits of face identification accuracy in forensic applications can minimize errors that have profound social and personal consequences. Although forensic examiners identify faces in these applicat...
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Achieving the upper limits of face identification accuracy in forensic applications can minimize errors that have profound social and personal consequences. Although forensic examiners identify faces in these applications, systematic tests of their accuracy are rare. How can we achieve the most accurate face identification: using people and/or machines working alone or in collaboration? In a comprehensive comparison of face identification by humans and computers, we found that forensic facial examiners, facial reviewers, and superrecognizers were more accurate than fingerprint examiners and students on a challenging face identification test. Individual performance on the test varied widely. On the same test, four deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), developed between 2015 and 2017, identified faces within the range of human accuracy. Accuracy of the algorithms increased steadily over time, with the most recent DCNN scoring above the median of the forensic facial examiners. Using crowd-sourcing methods, we fused the judgments of multiple forensic facial examiners by averaging their rating-based identity judgments. Accuracy was substantially better for fused judgments than for individuals working alone. Fusion also served to stabilize performance, boosting the scores of lower-performing individuals and decreasing variability. Single forensic facial examiners fused with the best algorithm were more accurate than the combination of two examiners. Therefore, collaboration among humans and between humans and machines offers tangible benefits to face identification accuracy in important applications. These results offer an evidence-based roadmap for achieving the most accurate face identification possible.
Unfamiliar face matching involves deciding whether two face images depict the same person or two different people. Individual performance can be error-prone but is improved by aggregating (fusing) the responses of par...
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Unfamiliar face matching involves deciding whether two face images depict the same person or two different people. Individual performance can be error-prone but is improved by aggregating (fusing) the responses of participant pairs. With advances in automated facial recognition systems (AFR), fusing human and algorithm responses also leads to performance improvements over individuals working alone. In the current work, I investigated whether ChatGPT could serve as the algorithm in this fusion. Using a common face matching test, I found that the fusion of individual responses with those provided by ChatGPT increased performance in comparison with both individuals working alone and simulated participant pairs. This pattern of results was evident when participants responded either using a rating scale (Experiment 1) or with a binary decision and associated confidence (Experiment 2). Taken together, these findings demonstrate the potential utility of ChatGPT in daily identification contexts where state-of-the-art AFR may not be available.
The sparse representation based classification (SRC) can effectively improve the facerecognition rate. Smoothed l 0 algorithm has much faster calculation speed and requires fewer measured values than the other spars...
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(纸本)9781467372251
The sparse representation based classification (SRC) can effectively improve the facerecognition rate. Smoothed l 0 algorithm has much faster calculation speed and requires fewer measured values than the other sparse representation method. In this paper, the sparse representation and smoothed l 0 algorithm for facerecognition are presented to improve the facerecognition under various conditions such as face disguise, illumination and pose changes, etc. The experiments on the AR, Extended Yale B and FERET face database verify the effectiveness of the presented method. The experimental results show that the face recognition algorithm increases to a certain extent in terms of recognition robustness and time than the original SRC.
facerecognition technique has obtained great progress and excellent results on public data sets. However, traditional algorithms suffer from various changes such as illumination, expression, and misalignment in pract...
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facerecognition technique has obtained great progress and excellent results on public data sets. However, traditional algorithms suffer from various changes such as illumination, expression, and misalignment in practical applications. To solve these problems, this study proposes a novel face recognition algorithm simultaneously resolves these challenges. The key idea is reducing the influence of illumination and expression through the aligning procedure. As a result, illumination, expression, and misalignment can be greatly ignored in the recognition procedure. The contributions of this study are two folds. (i) The construction of the shape constrained illumination pattern (SCIP), which models the illumination variation with robustness to expression change. (ii) SCIP-based face recognition algorithm which can deal with illumination, expression, and image misalignment simultaneously. Systematic evaluations conducted on public databases demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is robust to illumination, expression, and misalignment with better performance than state-of-the-art algorithms.
In this study, the authors propose a novel face recognition algorithm based on geometric features to alleviate the one sample per subject problem, called the robust estimation system. Our application adopts both local...
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In this study, the authors propose a novel face recognition algorithm based on geometric features to alleviate the one sample per subject problem, called the robust estimation system. Our application adopts both local and global information for robust estimation. The authors utilise the original images from the ORL and Yale databases for evaluation. The images of the FERET database are pre-processed to extract the pure face region and execute the affine transformation. The authors roughly divide the face images into four block images that are most significant for the face: left eye, right eye, nose and mouth. The feature extraction using magnitude of first-order gradients, based on geometric features, is ideal for estimating a single sample. While conducting the classification stage, local features are putatively matched before processing or the global random sample consensus robust estimation features, with the aim of identifying the fundamental matrix between two matched face images. Finally, similarity scores are calculated, and the candidate awarded the highest score is designated the correct subject. Experiments were implemented using the FERET, ORL and Yale databases to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method. The experimental results show that our algorithm greatly improves recognition performance compared with the existing methods.
Expression face neutralisation helps to improve the performance of expressive facerecognition with one single neutral sample in gallery per subject. For learning-based expression neutralisation, the virtual neutral f...
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Expression face neutralisation helps to improve the performance of expressive facerecognition with one single neutral sample in gallery per subject. For learning-based expression neutralisation, the virtual neutral face totally relies on training samples, which removes person-specific characters from the neutralised face. Bilinear kernel rank reduced regression (BKRRR) algorithm is designed in a virtual subspace to simultaneously and efficiently generate both virtual expressive and neutral images from training samples. An expression mask is then established using grey and gradient differences of the two images. The test expression image is transformed to neutral template by piece-wise affine warp (PAW). Using the virtual BKRRR neutral image as source, the PAW image as destination and the area covered by expression mask as clone area, an image fusion strategy based on Poisson equation is then designed, which achieves virtual neutralised face image with person-specific characters preserved. From experiments on the CMU Multi-PIE databases, it could be observed that the neutral faces synthesised by the proposed method could effectively approximate the real ground truth expressive faces, and greatly improve the performance of classic face recognition algorithms on expression variant problems.
A local-based illumination insensitive face recognition algorithm is proposed which is the combination of image normalisation and illumination invariant descriptors. Illumination insensitive representation of image is...
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A local-based illumination insensitive face recognition algorithm is proposed which is the combination of image normalisation and illumination invariant descriptors. Illumination insensitive representation of image is obtained based on the ratio of gradient amplitude to the original image intensity and partitioned into smaller sub-blocks. Local phase quantisation and multi-scale local binary pattern, extract the sub-regions characteristics. Distance measurements of local nearest neighbour classifiers are fused at the score level to find the best match and decision-level fusion combines the results of two matching techniques. Entropy, class posterior probability and mutual information are utilised as the weights of fusion components. Simulation results on the YaleB, Extended YaleB, AR, Multi-PIE and FRGC databases show the improved performance of the proposed algorithm under severe illumination with low computational complexity and no reconstruction or training requirement.
In this study, an illumination-tolerant face recognition algorithm is proposed. This work highlights the significance of matrix polar decomposition for illumination-invariant facerecognition. The proposed algorithm h...
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In this study, an illumination-tolerant face recognition algorithm is proposed. This work highlights the significance of matrix polar decomposition for illumination-invariant facerecognition. The proposed algorithm has two stages. In the first stage, the authors reduce the effect of illumination changes by weakening the discrete cosine transform coefficients of block intensities using a new designed quantisation table. In the second stage, the unitary factor of polar decomposition of the reconstructed image is used as a feature matrix. In the recognition phase, a novel indirect method for measuring the similarities in feature matrices is proposed. The nearest-neighbour rule is applied to the matching. The authors have performed some experiments on several databases to evaluate the proposed method in its different aspects. Experimental results on recognition demonstrate that this approach provides a suitable representation for illumination invariant facerecognition.
Facial occlusions such as eyeglasses, hairs and beards decrease the performance of face recognition algorithms. To improve the performance of face recognition algorithms, this paper proposes a novel framework of face ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479903115
Facial occlusions such as eyeglasses, hairs and beards decrease the performance of face recognition algorithms. To improve the performance of face recognition algorithms, this paper proposes a novel framework of facerecognition combined with the occluded-region detection method. In this paper, we detect occluded regions using Fast-Weighted Principal Component Analysis (FW-PCA) and use the occluded regions as weights for matching face images. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, we use two face recognition algorithms: Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and Phase-Only Correlation (POC). Experimental evaluation using public face image databases indicates performance improvement of the face recognition algorithms for face images with natural and artificial occlusions.
One sample per person facerecognition (OSPP) is a challenging problem in facerecognition community. Lack of samples leads to performance deterioration. Extended sparse representation-based classifier (ESRC) demonstr...
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One sample per person facerecognition (OSPP) is a challenging problem in facerecognition community. Lack of samples leads to performance deterioration. Extended sparse representation-based classifier (ESRC) demonstrates excellent performance on OSPP. However, because there are intra-class variant atoms in the dictionary of ESRC, the number of atoms in the dictionary is always large and it will spend a long time during recognition. In this study, the authors propose a new OSPP face recognition algorithm via sparse representation (OSPP-SR). A compressed dictionary and a new identification strategy are provided in OSPP-SR. It is proved theoretically and experimentally that OSPP-SR reaches better or similar performance but spends less time than ESRC. Experiments are conducted on three different databases (extended Yale face database B, AR database and FERET database) to show the validity of OSPP-SR. Images under clean and noise conditions are also tested to evaluate the robustness of OSPP-SR.
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