Adjabi, I.; Ouahabi, A.; Benzaoui, A.; Jacques, S. Multi-Block Color-Binarized Statistical Images for Single-Sample Face Recognition. Sensors2021, 21, 728.
Adjabi, I.; Ouahabi, A.; Benzaoui, A.; Jacques, S. Multi-Block Color-Binarized Statistical Images for Single-Sample Face Recognition. Sensors 2021, 21, 728.
Adjabi, I.; Ouahabi, A.; Benzaoui, A.; Jacques, S. Multi-Block Color-Binarized Statistical Images for Single-Sample Face Recognition. Sensors2021, 21, 728.
Adjabi, I.; Ouahabi, A.; Benzaoui, A.; Jacques, S. Multi-Block Color-Binarized Statistical Images for Single-Sample Face Recognition. Sensors 2021, 21, 728.
Abstract
Single sample face recognition (SSFR) is a computer vision challenge. In this scenario, there is only one example from each individual on which to train the system, making it difficult to identify persons in unconstrained environments, particularly when dealing with changes in facial expression, posture, lighting, and occlusion. This paper suggests a different method based on a variant of the Binarized Statistical Image Features (BSIF) descriptor called Multi-Block Color-Binarized Statistical Image Features (MB-C-BSIF) to resolve the SSFR Problem. First, the MB-C-BSIF method decomposes a facial image into three channels (e.g., red, green, and blue), then it divides each channel into equal non-overlapping blocks to select the local facial characteristics that are consequently employed in the classification phase. Finally, the identity is determined by calculating the similarities among the characteristic vectors adopting a distance measurement of the k-nearest neighbors (K-NN) classifier. Extensive experiments on several subsets of the unconstrained Alex & Robert (AR) and Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) databases show that the MB-C-BSIF achieves superior results in unconstrained situations when compared to current state-of-the-art methods, especially when dealing with changes in facial expression, lighting, and occlusion. Furthermore, the suggested method employs algorithms with lower computational cost, making it ideal for real-time applications.
Keywords
Biometrics; Face Recognition; Single Sample Face Recognition; Binarized Statistical Image Features; K-Nearest Neighbors
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory
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