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A unified framework for thermal face recognition

Reza Shoja Ghiass, Ognjen Arandjelović, Abdel Hakim Bendada and Xavier Maldague

Abstract - The reduction of the cost of infrared (IR) cameras in recent years has made IR imaging a highly viable modality for face recognition in practice. A particularly attractive advantage of IR-based over conventional, visible spectrum-based face recognition stems from its invariance to visible illumination. In this paper we argue that the main limitation of previous work on face recognition using IR lies in its ad hoc approach to treating different nuisance factors which affect appearance, prohibiting a unified approach that is capable of handling concurrent changes in multiple (or indeed all) major extrinsic sources of variability, which is needed in practice. We describe the first approach that attempts to achieve this - the framework we propose achieves outstanding recognition performance in the presence of variable (i) pose, (ii) facial expression, (iii) physiological state, (iv) partial occlusion due to eye-wear, and (v) quasi-occlusion due to facial hair growth.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{Ghiass1076,
author    = { Reza Shoja Ghiass and Ognjen Arandjelović and Abdel Hakim Bendada and Xavier Maldague },
title     = { A unified framework for thermal face recognition },
booktitle = { International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2014 },
year      = { 2014 },
journal   = { International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2014 }
}

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