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Recognizing Partially Occluded Faces from a Single Exemplar Image Per Person

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Advances in Information Security and Assurance (ISA 2009)

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Despite remarkable progress on human face recognition, little attention has been given to robustly recognizing partially occluded faces. In this paper, we propose a new approach to recognize partially occluded faces when only one exemplar image per person is available. In this approach, a face image is represented as an array of Patch PCA (PPCA) extracted from a partitioned face image containing information of local regions instead of holistic information of a face. An adaptive weighting technique is utilized to assign proper weights to PPCA features to adjust the contribution of each local region of a face in terms of the richness of identity information and the likelihood of occlusion in a local region. The encouraging experimental results using AR face database demonstrate that the proposed method provides a new solution to the problem of robustly recognizing partially occluded faces in single model databases.

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin Branch, Qazvin, Iran

    Hamidreza Rashidy Kanan

  2. Multimedia Systems Research Group, IT Faculty, Iran Telecom Research Center, Tehran, Iran, 1439955471

    Hamidreza Rashidy Kanan & M. Shahram Moin

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  1. Computer Engineering Department, Kyungnam University, 449, Wolyong-dong, 631-701, Kyungnam, Masan, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

  2. Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Hsiao-Hwa Chen

  3. School of Computer Science,, University of Oklahoma, 200 Felgar Street, 73019, P.O. Box, Norman, OK, USA

    Mohammed Atiquzzaman

  4. School of Computer Engineering, Hanshin University, Kyeong-Gi, Osan, Korea

    Changhoon Lee

  5. Division of Multimedia, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  6. Division of Computer Engineering, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea

    Sang-Soo Yeo

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Kanan, H.R., Moin, M.S. (2009). Recognizing Partially Occluded Faces from a Single Exemplar Image Per Person. In: Park, J.H., Chen, HH., Atiquzzaman, M., Lee, C., Kim, Th., Yeo, SS. (eds) Advances in Information Security and Assurance. ISA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5576. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02617-1_11

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