Free form face recognition using kernel sparse representation

  • Authors:
  • K. R. Anoop;R. S. Narasimhan;K. R. Ramakrishnan;Chiranjib Bhattacharya

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Seventh Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recognizing faces from face detector outputs is a hard problem. While existing face recognition (FR) techniques essentially work on pre-processed (cropped and aligned) data, we employ Gabor-based covariance descriptors for recognition from free-form faces (raw face detector outputs). Our recognition algorithm employs a Principal Geodesic Analysis (PGA) of Covariance Descriptors, followed by a transformation on to tangent space where faces are sparsely represented. Employing the kernel trick on this sparse feature space enables upto 10% improvement in recognition accuracy.