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Face Recognition
Face Recognition:
:
A Literature Review
A Literature Review
Thomas Heseltine
Thomas Heseltine
DPhil Research Student
DPhil Research Student
University of York
University of York
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Project Background – Why Face?
Project Background – Why Face?
• Sponsored by Bio4 ltd.
– Biometric security specialists.
– Iris, fingerprint, signature, 2D face.
– New product: 3D facial recognition.
• Growing Interest in biometric authentication
– National ID cards, Airport security, Surveillance.
• Non-intrusive.
– Can even be used without subjects knowledge.
• Human readable media.
• No association with crime, as with fingerprints.
• Data required is easily obtained and readily
available.
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Terms
Terms
• Biometrics
– The measurement and statistical analysis of biological data.
– The application of the above to authentication and security.
• Face Detection
– Finding a face within a given scene/image.
• Enrolment
– Associating a face in a given image with a given label (subjects name).
• Verification
– Verifying that a given label is associated with the face in a given image.
• Identification
– Labelling (naming) a given image of a face.
• FAR – False Acceptance Rate
– The percentage of incorrect successful verifications.
• FRR – False Rejection Rate
– The percentage of incorrect failed verifications.
• EER – Equal Error Rate
– The value at which FAR equals FRR
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2D Face Recognition Approaches
2D Face Recognition Approaches
• Neural networks
– Back propagation techniques
– Better for detection and localisation than identification
• Feature analysis
– Localisation of features
– Distance between features
– Feature characteristics
• Graph matching
– Construct a graph around the face
– Possible need for feature localisation
– Can include other data (colour, texture)
• Eigenface
– Information Theory approach
– Identify discriminating components
• Fisherface
– Uses ‘within-class’ information to maximise class separation
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Neural Network Based Face Detection
Neural Network Based Face Detection
Henry A. Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, Takeo Kanade
– CMU, Pittsburgh
•Large training set of faces and small set of non-faces
•Training set of non-faces automatically built up:
•Set of images with no faces
•Every ‘face’ detected is added to the non-face training set.
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Extraction of Facial Features for Recognition
Extraction of Facial Features for Recognition
Using Neural Networks
Using Neural Networks
– Nathan Intrator, Daniel Reisfeld, Yehezkel Yeshurun
– Tel-Aviv University
•Assigns a symmetry magnitude to
each pixel, to create a symmetry
map(right)
•Applying geometric constrains,
locates regions of interest.
•Several neural networks are trained
using various back-propagation
methods.
•The ensemble network results are
used to classify features.
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Face Recognition though Geometric Features
Face Recognition though Geometric Features
R. Brunelli, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Technologica
T. Poggio, MIT
•Uses vertical and horizontal
integral projections of edge maps.
•The nose is found by searching for
peaks in the vertical projection.
•22 Geometrical features used.
•Recognition performed by nearest
neighbour.
•Only useful for small databases,
or preliminary step.
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Face Recognition by Elastic Bunch Graph
Face Recognition by Elastic Bunch Graph
Matching
Matching – L. Wiskott, N. Kruger, C. Malsburg Ruhr-University,
Germany
– J. Fellous, University of Southern California, USA
•Uses a Gabor wavlet transform on images of
faces.
•A face graph is a sparse collection of jets:
A set of (40) Gabor kernel coefficients for a
single point in an image.
•A face bunch graph is a combination of various
face graphs (A set of jets at each node – called a
bunch).
•A graph is created for a specific face by selecting
the best matching jets from each bunch.
•Recognition is performed by comparing graph
similarity.
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The Eigenface Method
The Eigenface Method
– Eigenfaces for Recognition
• Matthew Turk, Alex Pentland
– MIT
– Face Recognition Using Eigenfaces
• Matthew Turk, Alex Pentland
– MIT
• Use PCA to determine the most discriminating
features between images of faces.
• Create an image subspace (face space) which best
discriminates between faces.
• Like faces occupy near points in face space.
• Compare two faces by projecting the images into
faces pace and measuring the distance between
them.
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Image space
Image space
• Similarly the following 1x2 pixel images are
converted into the vectors shown.
Each image occupies a different point in image
space.
Similar images are near each other in image
space.
Different images are far from each other in
image space.
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Applying the same principal to faces
Applying the same principal to faces
• A 256x256 pixel image of a face occupies a single point in 65,536-
dimensional image space.
• Images of faces occupy a small region of this large image space.
• Similarly, different faces should occupy different areas of this
smaller region.
• We can identify a face by finding the nearest ‘known’ face in
image space.
However, even tiny changes in lighting, expression or
head orientation cause the location in image space to
change dramatically. Plus, large amounts of storage is
required.
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PCA – Principal Component Analysis
PCA – Principal Component Analysis
• Principal component analysis is used
to calculate the vectors which best
represent this small region of image
space.
• These are the eigenvectors of the
covariance matrix for the training set.
• The eigenvectors are used to define
the subspace of face images, known
as face space.
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In Practice
In Practice
• Align a set of face images (the training set)
– Rotate, scale and translate such that the eyes
are located at the same coordinates.
• Compute the average face image
• Compute the difference image for
each image in the training set
• Compute the covariance matrix
of this set of difference images
• Compute the eigenvectors of the
covariance matrix
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Examples of Eigenfaces
Examples of Eigenfaces
• The eigenvectors of the covariance
matrix can be viewed as images.
These are the first 4 eigenvectors, from a
training set of 23 images….
Hence the name eigenfaces.
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Dimensionality Reduction
Dimensionality Reduction
• Only selecting the top M eigenfaces,
reduces the dimensionality of the data.
• Too few eigenfaces results in too much
information loss, and hence less
discrimination between faces.
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x2
2D data
y
1
1D data
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The Fisherface method
The Fisherface method
• Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: Recognition Using
Class Specific Linear Projection
– P. Belhumeur, J. Hespanha, D. Kriegman
• Yale University
• Eigenfaces attempt to maximise the scatter of the
training images in face space.
• Fisherfaces attempt to maximise the between class
scatter, while minimising the within class scatter.
• In other words, moves images of the same face
closer together, while moving images of difference
faces further apart.
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Fisher’s Linear Discriminant
Fisher’s Linear Discriminant
• Attempts to project the data such
that the classes are separated.
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Disadvantages of Face
Disadvantages of Face
Recognition
Recognition
• Not as accurate as other biometrics.
• Large amounts of storage needed.
• Good quality images needed.
Problems:
•Lighting
–Difference in lighting conditions for enrolment and query.
–Bright light causing image saturation.
–Artificial coloured light.
•Pose – Head orientation
–Difference between enrolment and subsequent images.
•Image quality
–CCTV etc. is often not good enough for existing systems.
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Face Recognition: the Problem of Compensating
Face Recognition: the Problem of Compensating
for Changes in Illumination Direction
for Changes in Illumination Direction
• Image representations used:
– Standard greylevel, edge map, 2D gabor-like filters, first and
second derivative.
• Distance measures used:
– Pointwise, regional, affine-GL, local affine-GL, log distance
• Viewing conditions:
– Frontal, profile, expressions, lighting.
• Missed-face:
– If the distance between two images of one face under
different conditions is greater than the distance between two
different faces under the same conditions.
- Yael Adini, Yael Moses, Shimon Ullman.
- The Weizmann Institute of Science
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Results
Results
• Changes in lighting direction:
– Grey-level comparison 100% missed-faces
– Other representations 20%~100% missed-faces
• Changes in viewing angle:
– Grey-level comparison 100% missed-faces
– Missed-faces of all representations above 50%
• Changes in expression
– Smile
• Grey-level comparison 0% missed-faces
• Gabor-like filters reduced the accuracy to 34% even
though it was good for the changes illumination
– Drastic
• Grey-level comparison 60% missed-faces
• Other representations decreased accuracy
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Lighting: Potential Solutions
Lighting: Potential Solutions
• Controlled lighting
– Dominant light source
– Infrared images
• Face recognition using infrared images and Eigenfaces.
Ross cutler, Uni of Maryland
• Colour normalisation
– Intensity normalisation
– Grey-world normalisation
– Comprehensive normalisation
– HSV – hue representation
– Brightness and gamma invariant hue
• Filters
– Edge detection
– 2D gabor-like filters
– First and second derivatives
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Comprehensive Colour Image Normalisation
Comprehensive Colour Image Normalisation
- Graham Finlayson, The University of Derby
- Bernt Schiele, MIT
- James Crowley, INRIA Rhones Alpes
•Apply intensity normalisation, followed by Grey
World.
•Repeat until a stable state is reached.
Hue that is invariant to brightness and gamma
Hue that is invariant to brightness and gamma
- Graham Finlayson, Gerald Schaefer, University of East Anglia
•Apply a log transform to the RGBs.
•Gamma becomes mutliplicative scalars and cancel.
•Taking the difference between colour channel
cancels the brightness.
•The angle of the resulting vector is analogous to the
standard HSV Hue definition.
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Examples of Lighting Correction
Examples of Lighting Correction
Original Image Grey world:
Invariant to
coloured light
Comprehensive:
Invariant to light
colour and direction
Intensity:
Invariant to light
direction
BGi Hue:
brightness and
gamma invarient
HSV Hue:
‘Colour’
representation
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Pose: Potential Solutions
Pose: Potential Solutions
• Multiple enrolment at various
orientations
– Increases FAR
– Increases required storage space
• Image representations that are
invariant to pose
– Colour histograms
• 3D model enhancement
• View-based Eigenfaces
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3D Model Enhanced Face Recognition
3D Model Enhanced Face Recognition
- Wen Zhao, Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton
- Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland
• Use a generic 3D shape to estimate light
source and pose affect in the 2D image.
• Compensate for the above to render a
prototype image.
• Perform face recognition on the
prototype image.
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View-based and Modular Eigenfaces
View-based and Modular Eigenfaces
for Face Recognition
for Face Recognition
- Alex Pentland, Baback Moghadden, Thad Starner, MIT
-Use several projections into face space.
-Each projection represents a different
viewing angle.
-When comparing faces use all projections.
-Use the nearest to face spaceangle or just
identify as the nearest known face across all
projections.
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3D Facial Recognition
3D Facial Recognition
• Increase accuracy.
• Removes pose and lighting problems.
• Enough invariant information to cope
with changes in expression, beards,
glasses etc.
Existing Approaches:
• Profile matching.
• Surface segmentation matching.
• Point signature.
• Self-organising matching.
• PCA.
• AURA – coming soon.
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Automatic 3D Face Authentication
Automatic 3D Face Authentication
- Charles Beumier, Mark Acheroy, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
• 3D surface too noisy for
global surface matching.
• Take central and lateral
profiles from the 3D
surface.
• Compare 13 2D profiles.
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Description and Recognition of Faces
Description and Recognition of Faces
from 3D Data
from 3D Data
• 3D Data acquired by optical surface scanning.
• Eight fundamental surface types are defined:
– Peak, pit, ridge, valley, saddle ridge, saddle valley,
minimal, flat.
• Facial surface is segmented into surface types.
• Facial features are manually localised by a user.
• Local regions are analysed for the surface type present.
• It is argued that faces can be distinguished by the
surface types present in these local regions.
• No results are presented.
- A. Coombes, R. Richards, A. Linney, University College London
- V. Bruce, University of Nottingham
- R. Fright, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand
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3D Human Face Recognition Using Point
3D Human Face Recognition Using Point
Signature
Signature
• Treats the face recognition problem as 3D
non-rigid surface recognition problem.
• For each person an analysis over four
expressions is carried out to determine the
rigid parts of the face.
• A face model of those rigid parts is
constructed.
• Each model and test surface is represented
by point signatures.
- Chin-Seng Chua, Feng Han, Yeong_Khing Ho.
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Point Signature
Point Signature
• Each plot in the 3D surface is represented
by its point signature.
– Place a sphere of radius r centred at point p.
– The intersection of the sphere and surface
creates a 3D space curve C.
– This curve is projected such that its planar
approximation is parallel to its normal, to
make a new 3D curve C`.
– A point signature is the set of distances from
the points on C to the corresponding points
on C`, at intervals of Bo
around the sphere.
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Matching 3D Surfaces
Matching 3D Surfaces
• Point signatures are compared by
taking the difference between each
distance pairs in the two point
signatures.
• All distance must be within a
tolerance level for the point
signatures to match.
• 100% Accuracy achieved…
• But only tested on 6 people.
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Some Other Approaches
Some Other Approaches
• 3-D human face recognition by self-organizing matching
approach
– S. Gerl, P. Levi
• Implemented on a massively parallel field
computer with 16387 processors.
• A graph matching approach is used, by minimising
a fitting function by simulated annealing.
• Towards 3-dimensional face recognition
– A. Eriksson, D. Weber
• Face meshes produced from a stereo image pair.
• Recognition performed by attempting to project
meshes onto test images.
• Face recognition using 3D distance maps and principal
component analysis
– H. Grecu, V. Buzuloiu, R. Beuran, E. Podaru
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The Advanced Uncertain Reasoning
The Advanced Uncertain Reasoning
Architecture, AURA
Architecture, AURA
• Correlation Matrix Memories based
architecture.
• Simple hardware implementation.
• Able to match incomplete and noisy
data at high speeds.
• Graph matcher uses AURA technology.
• Could this be applied to 3D facial
surfaces?
- J. Austin, J. Kennedy, K. Lees, University of York
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Some Existing Aura Applications
• Chemical structure matching.
– Performance Evaluation of a Fast Chemical Structure
Matching Method using Distributed Neural Relaxation
– A Turner, J Austin, University of York
• Trade mark matching.
– Content-Based Retrieval of Trademark Images
– Sujeewa Alwis, University of York
• Postal address matching.