Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Volume 30, Issue -, Pages 3858-3871Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2021.3065843
Keywords
Face recognition; Feature extraction; Histograms; Robustness; Quantization (signal); Task analysis; Real-time systems; Face recognition; feature learning; multi-bit binary descriptor; heterogeneous face matching
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51875228]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFA0405700]
- National Defense Science and Technology Innovation Special Zone Project [193-A14-202-01-23]
- Program for Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Enterpreneurial Teams [2017ZT07G331]
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In this study, a novel multi-bit binary descriptor method for face recognition is proposed, which utilizes a learned mapping matrix and multi-bit coding rules to extract multi-bit local binary descriptors. Additionally, a robust weight learning method is introduced to integrate these descriptors into the final face representation. Experimental results demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method compared to state-of-the-art face recognition methods.
Most face recognition methods employ single-bit binary descriptors for face representation. The information from these methods is lost in the process of quantization from real-valued descriptors to binary descriptors, which greatly limits their robustness for face recognition. In this study, we propose a novel weighted feature histogram (WFH) method of multi-scale local patches using multi-bit binary descriptors for face recognition. First, to obtain multi-scale information of the face image, the local patches are extracted using a multi-scale local patch generation (MSLPG) method. Second, with the goal of reducing the quantization information loss of binary descriptors, a novel multi-bit local binary descriptor learning (MBLBDL) method is proposed to extract multi-bit local binary descriptors (MBLBDs). In MBLBDL, a learned mapping matrix and novel multi-bit coding rules are employed to project pixel difference vectors (PDVs) into the MBLBDs in each local patch. Finally, a novel robust weight learning (RWL) method is proposed to learn a set of robust weights for each patch to integrate the MBLBDs into the final face representation. In RWL, a codebook is first constructed by clustering MBLBDs on each local patch to extract a feature histogram. Then, considering that different parts of the face have different degrees of robustness to local changes, a set of weights is learned to concatenate the feature histograms of all local patches into the final representation of a face image. In addition, to further improve the performance for heterogeneous face recognition, a coupled WFH (C-WFH) method is proposed. C-WFH maintains the similarity of the corresponding MBLBDs and feature histograms for a pair of heterogeneous face images by means of a novel coupled feature learning (CFL) method to reduce the modality gap. A series of experiments are conducted on widely used face datasets to analyze the performance of WFH and C-WFH. Extensive experimental results show that WFH and C-WFH outperform state-of-the-art face recognition methods.
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