Incremental template updating for face recognition in home environments

  • Authors:
  • Annalisa Franco;Dario Maio;Davide Maltoni

  • Affiliations:
  • C.d.L. Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche - Universití di Bologna, via Sacchi 3, 47521 Cesena, Italy and DEIS - Universití di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna, Italy;C.d.L. Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche - Universití di Bologna, via Sacchi 3, 47521 Cesena, Italy and DEIS - Universití di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna, Italy;C.d.L. Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche - Universití di Bologna, via Sacchi 3, 47521 Cesena, Italy and DEIS - Universití di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The extreme variability of faces in smart environment applications, due to continuous changes in terms of pose, illumination and subject appearance (hairstyle, make-up, etc.), requires the relevant mode of variations of the subject's faces to be encoded in the templates and to be continuously updated based on new inputs. This work proposes a new video-based template updating approach suitable for home environments where the image acquisition process is totally unconstrained but a large amount of face data is available for continuous learning. A small set of labeled images is initially used to create the templates and the updating is then totally unsupervised. Although the method is here presented in conjunction with a subspace-based face recognition approach, it can be easily adapted to deal with different kinds of face representations. A thorough performance evaluation is carried out to show the efficacy and reliability of the proposed technique.