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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Blur-Robust Face Recognition via Transformation Learning

verfasst von : Jun Li, Chi Zhang, Jiani Hu, Weihong Deng

Erschienen in: Computer Vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new method for recognizing faces degraded by blur using transformation learning on the image feature. The basic idea is to transform both the sharp images and blurred images to a same feature subspace by the method of multidimensional scaling. Different from the method of finding blur-invariant descriptors, our method learns the transformation which both preserves the manifold structure of the original shape images and, at the same time, enhances the class separability, resulting in a wide applications to various descriptors. Furthermore, we combine our method with subspace-based point spread function (PSF) estimation method to handle cases of unknown blur degree, by applying the feature transformation corresponding to the best matched PSF, where the transformation for each PSF is learned in the training stage. Experimental results on the FERET database show the proposed method achieve comparable performance against the state-of-the-art blur-invariant face recognition methods, such as LPQ and FADEIN.

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Metadaten
Titel
Blur-Robust Face Recognition via Transformation Learning
verfasst von
Jun Li
Chi Zhang
Jiani Hu
Weihong Deng
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16634-6_2