Rank-Based decision fusion for 3d shape-based face recognition

  • Authors:
  • Berk Gökberk;Albert Ali Salah;Lale Akarun

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, Turkey;Computer Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, Turkey;Computer Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • AVBPA'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In 3D face recognition systems, 3D facial shape information plays an important role. Various shape representations have been proposed in the literature. The most popular techniques are based on point clouds, surface normals, facial profiles, and statistical analysis of depth images. The contribution of the presented work can be divided into two parts: In the first part, we have developed face classifiers which use these popular techniques. A comprehensive comparison of these representation methods are given using 3D RMA dataset. Experimental results show that the linear discriminant analysis-based representation of depth images and point cloud representation perform best. In the second part of the paper, two different multiple-classifier architectures are developed to fuse individual shape-based face recognizers in parallel and hierarchical fashions at the decision level. It is shown that a significant performance improvement is possible when using rank-based decision fusion in ensemble methods.