Face Recognition with VG-RAM Weightless Neural Networks

  • Authors:
  • Alberto F. Souza;Claudine Badue;Felipe Pedroni;Elias Oliveira;Stiven Schwanz Dias;Hallysson Oliveira;Soterio Ferreira Souza

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Informática, ,;Departamento de Informática, ,;Departamento de Informática, ,;Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil 29075-910;Departamento de Informática, ,;Departamento de Informática, ,;Departamento de Informática, ,

  • Venue:
  • ICANN '08 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Virtual Generalizing Random Access Memory Weightless Neural Networks (Vg-ram wnn) are effective machine learning tools that offer simple implementation and fast training and test. We examined the performance of Vg-ram wnnon face recognition using a well known face database--the AR Face Database. We evaluated two Vg-ram wnnarchitectures configured with different numbers of neurons and synapses per neuron. Our experimental results show that, even when training with a single picture per person, Vg-ram wnnare robust to various facial expressions, occlusions and illumination conditions, showing better performance than many well known face recognition techniques.