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A major face recognition paradigm involves recognizing a person from a set of images instead of from a single image. Often, the image sets are acquired from a video stream by a camera surveillance system, or a combination of images which can be non-contiguous and unordered. An effective algorithm that tackles this problem involves fitting low-dimensional linear subspaces across the image sets and using a linear subspace as an approximation for the particular face identity. Unavoidably, the individual frames in the image set will be corrupted by noise and there is a degree of uncertainty on how accurate the resultant subspace approximates the set. Furthermore, when we compare two linear subspaces, how much of the distance between them is due to inter-personal differences and how much is due to intra-personal variations contributed by noise? Here, we propose a new distance criterion, developed based on a matrix perturbation theorem, for comparing two image sets that takes into account the uncertainty of estimating a linear subspace from noise affected image sets.
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Chin, TJ., Suter, D. (2006). A New Distance Criterion for Face Recognition Using Image Sets. In: Narayanan, P.J., Nayar, S.K., Shum, HY. (eds) Computer Vision – ACCV 2006. ACCV 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3851. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11612032_56
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