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Linguistic Descriptors and Analytic Hierarchy Process in Face Recognition Realized by Humans

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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2016)

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In this paper, we discuss an application of the linguistic descriptions obtained directly from experts’ and treated as the votes when characterizing facial images to carry out face classification. Despite various automated face recognition techniques, the expert’s opinion plays a pivotal role in making classification decisions when recognizing faces, say in problems of suspect identification. Here, we analyze the impact of critical factors (e.g., a number of experts, voting schemes, distance functions) and their impact on the performance of classification schemes. The well-established Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to quantify importance of linguistic descriptors in the process of face recognition by humans. As a result we produce realistic weights improving the accuracy of classification. Experimental results are presented including a number of parametric studies.

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The authors are supported by National Science Centre, Poland (grant no. 2014/13/D/ST6/03244). Support from the Canada Research Chair (CRC) program and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council is gratefully acknowledged (W. Pedrycz).

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, ul. Konstantynów 1H, 20-708, Lublin, Poland

    Paweł Karczmarek, Adam Kiersztyn & Michał Dolecki

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6R 2V4, Canada

    Witold Pedrycz

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Witold Pedrycz

  4. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Witold Pedrycz

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Karczmarek, P., Kiersztyn, A., Pedrycz, W., Dolecki, M. (2016). Linguistic Descriptors and Analytic Hierarchy Process in Face Recognition Realized by Humans. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L., Zurada, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9692. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39378-0_50

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