| Author: | Hong, Hang |
| Title: | Low resolution face recognition |
| Advisors: | Lam, Kin Man (EIE) |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Subject: | Human face recognition (Computer science) Resolution (Optics) Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Department of Electronic and Information Engineering |
| Pages: | vi, 64 pages : color illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | In recent years, face recognition techniques have made significant progress and have been successfully applied to many areas, such as face unlock, attendance check, and entertainment. Most of the existing face recognition methods have been widely used in well-controlled scenarios and have achieved amazing performance. However, when face images are captured in uncontrolled surveillance scenarios, the face recognition methods will perform poorly. One main reason is that the face images, captured by surveillance cameras, are of low resolution (LR), because of the long distance between the faces and the cameras. This leads to limited discriminant information available from the face regions and the problem of resolution mismatch. This is called the low-resolution face recognition (LRFR) problem. In this dissertation, we have studied different methods for low-resolution face recognition, and proposed an algorithm, named "SR-MDS". In our method, super-resolution (SR) techniques are employed. We use the enhanced deep super-resolution network (EDSR), trained by a novel loss function, called identity-preserved loss, to perform face hallucination. Furthermore, multi-dimensional scaling (MDS), which projects features from different resolutions into a new common space, is used. First, we use EDSR[2] to super-resolve low-resolution face images. After generating a higher resolution face image, MDS is applied to learn coupled feature mapping for projecting the SR facial features and high-resolution (HR) facial features into a new common space. In this space, the distance between the two features of different resolutions is as close to the corresponding distance in the HR space as possible. The proposed method can generate representative and discriminative features from LR face images by using a SR model, and MDS can guarantee the structure consistency between the features in the transformed feature space and the HR face feature space. Furthermore, MDS takes inter-class variations into consideration, which further enhances the discriminability of the method. We conduct experiments on four databases: Yale, ARface, YALEB, and FERET. Experimental results have demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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