Remote identification of faces: Problems, prospects, and progress
Pattern Recognition Letters
Robust pose invariant face recognition using coupled latent space discriminant analysis
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Pose invariant approach for face recognition at distance
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part VI
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Face recognition across pose is a problem of fundamental importance in computer vision. We propose to address this problem by using stereo matching to judge the similarity of two, 2D images of faces seen from different poses. Stereo matching allows for arbitrary, physically valid, continuous correspondences. We show that the stereo matching cost provides a very robust measure of similarity of faces that is insensitive to pose variations. To enable this, we show that, for conditions common in face recognition, the epipolar geometry of face images can be computed using either four or three feature points. We also provide a straightforward adaptation of a stereo matching algorithm to compute the similarity between faces. The proposed approach has been tested on the CMU PIE data set and demonstrates superior performance compared to existing methods in the presence of pose variation. It also shows robustness to lighting variation.