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Book Consistent and Accurate Face Tracking and Recognition in Videos

Download or read book Consistent and Accurate Face Tracking and Recognition in Videos written by Yiran Liu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automatically tracking and recognizing human faces in videos and live streams is often a crucial component in many high-level applications such as security, visual surveillance and human-computer interaction. Deep learning has recently revolutionized artificial intelligence areas, including face recognition and detection. Most of the existing video analysis solutions, however, rely on certain 2D convolutional neural network (CNN) to process video clips upon a frame-to-frame basis. The temporal contextual information between consecutive frames is often inadvertently overlooked, resulting in inconsistent tracking outcomes, which also negatively affect the accuracy of human identification. To provide a remedy, we propose a novel network framework that allows history information be carried along video frames. More specifically, we take the single short scale-invariant face detection (S3FD) as the baseline face detection network and combine it with long short-term memory (LSTM) components to integrate temporal context. Taking the images and detection results of previous frames as additional inputs, our S3FD + LSTM framework is well posed to produce more consistent and smoother face detection results along time, which in return leads to more robust and accurate face recognition in videos and live streams. We evaluated our face tracking and recognition model with both public (YouTube Face) and self-made datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our S3FD+LSTM approach constantly produces smoother and more stable bounding boxes than S3FD alone. Recognition accuracy is also improved over the baseline model, and our model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art face tracking solutions in the public domain.

Book Face Recognition from Synchronous Videos

Download or read book Face Recognition from Synchronous Videos written by Binglong Xie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automatic face recognition has a lot of application areas, such as biometrics, information security, law enforcement, surveillance; smart cards and access control etc. Current single-camera face recognition has severe limitations when the subject is not cooperative, or there are pose changes and different illumination conditions. Face recognition using multiple synchronized cameras is proposed to overcome the limitations in this dissertation. The major contributions include illumination insensitive change detection, component-based single-channel face detection and recognition, and a fusion approach to effectively combine the multiple channels running the mentioned face detection and recognition. The illumination insensitive change detection is motivated from a statistical model derived from the physics of the imaging process, detects changes by examining the order consistency in the neighborhood that is resistant to sudden illumination changes, and can be used as a peripheral subsystem to work with face detection and recognition. The face detection is based on two levels of processing, in which the first level detects the face components using improved AdaBoost, and the second level fuses individual component detections to detect a face using a component face model. This approach is robust to face pose and illumination changes and fast compared to other face detection algorithms. The detected face is recognized by an LDA based face recognizer with fusion over time to further improve robustness. For the two-channel system, a reliability measure is effectively trained for each channel with features extracted from both face detection and recognition results, and it accurately chooses the more reliable channel as the final face recognition. The performance in terms of recognition rate is far better than that of either single channel, and it is consistently better than common classifier fusion rules. Future work will focus on joint similarity modeling to explore information hidden in all matching scores in all channels for better performance.

Book Unconstrained Face Recognition

Download or read book Unconstrained Face Recognition written by Shaohua Kevin Zhou and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge. Just recently, researchers have begun to investigate face recognition under unconstrained conditions. Unconstrained Face Recognition provides a comprehensive review of this biometric, especially face recognition from video, assembling a collection of novel approaches that are able to recognize human faces under various unconstrained situations. The underlying basis of these approaches is that, unlike conventional face recognition algorithms, they exploit the inherent characteristics of the unconstrained situation and thus improve the recognition performance when compared with conventional algorithms. Unconstrained Face Recognition is structured to meet the needs of a professional audience of researchers and practitioners in industry. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

Book Handbook of Face Recognition

Download or read book Handbook of Face Recognition written by Stan Z. Li and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the history of computer-aided face recognition stretches back to the 1960s, automatic face recognition remains an unsolved problem and still offers a great challenge to computer-vision and pattern recognition researchers. This handbook is a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, written by a group of leading international researchers. Twelve chapters cover all the sub-areas and major components for designing operational face recognition systems. Background, modern techniques, recent results, and challenges and future directions are considered. The book is aimed at practitioners and professionals planning to work in face recognition or wanting to become familiar with the state-of- the-art technology. A comprehensive handbook, by leading research authorities, on the concepts, methods, and algorithms for automated face detection and recognition. Essential reference resource for researchers and professionals in biometric security, computer vision, and video image analysis.

Book Face Recognition from Video

Download or read book Face Recognition from Video written by Joshua David Harguess and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the area of face recognition has been extensively studied in recent years, it remains a largely open problem, despite what movie and television studios would leave you to believe. Frontal, still face recognition research has seen a lot of success in recent years from any different researchers. However, the accuracy of such systems can be greatly diminished in cases such as increasing the variability of the database, occluding the face, and varying the illumination of the face. Further varying the pose of the face (yaw, pitch, and roll) and the face expression (smile, frown, etc.) adds even more complexity to the face recognition task, such as in the case of face recognition from video. In a more realistic video surveillance setting, a face recognition system should be robust to scale, pose, resolution, and occlusion as well as successfully track the face between frames. Also, a more advanced face recognition system should be able to improve the face recognition result by utilizing the information present in multiple video cameras. We approach the problem of face recognition from video in the following manner. We assume that the training data for the system consists of only still image data, such as passport photos or mugshots in a real-world system. We then transform the problem of face recognition from video to a still face recognition problem. Our research focuses on solutions to detecting, tracking and extracting face information from video frames so that they may be utilized effectively in a still face recognition system. We have developed four novel methods that assist in face recognition from video and multiple cameras. The first uses a patch-based method to handle the face recognition task when only patches, or parts, of the face are seen in a video, such as when occlusion of the face happens often. The second uses multiple cameras to fuse the recognition results of multiple cameras to improve the recognition accuracy. In the third solution, we utilize multiple overlapping video cameras to improve the face tracking result which thus improves the face recognition accuracy of the system. We additionally implement a methodology to detect and handle occlusion so that unwanted information is not used in the tracking algorithm. Finally, we introduce the average-half-face, which is shown to improve the results of still face recognition by utilizing the symmetry of the face. In one attempt to understand the use of the average-half-face in face recognition, an analysis of the effect of face symmetry on face recognition results is shown.

Book Video to Video Face Recognition for Low Quality Surveillance Data

Download or read book Video to Video Face Recognition for Low Quality Surveillance Data written by Herrmann, Christian and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The availability of video data is an opportunity and a challenge for law enforcement agencies. Face recognition methods can play a key role in the automated search for persons in the data. This work targets efficient representations of low-quality face sequences to enable fast and accurate face search. Novel concepts for multi-scale analysis, dataset augmentation, CNN loss function, and sequence description lead to improvements over state-of-the-art methods on surveillance video footage.

Book Facial Analysis from Continuous Video with Applications to Human Computer Interface

Download or read book Facial Analysis from Continuous Video with Applications to Human Computer Interface written by Antonio J. Colmenarez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer vision algorithms for the analysis of video data are obtained from a camera aimed at the user of an interactive system. It is potentially useful to enhance the interface between users and machines. These image sequences provide information from which machines can identify and keep track of their users, recognize their facial expressions and gestures, and complement other forms of human-computer interfaces. Facial Analysis from Continuous Video with Applications to Human-Computer Interfaces presents a learning technique based on information-theoretic discrimination which is used to construct face and facial feature detectors. This book also describes a real-time system for face and facial feature detection and tracking in continuous video. Finally, this book presents a probabilistic framework for embedded face and facial expression recognition from image sequences. Facial Analysis from Continuous Video with Applications to Human-Computer Interfaces is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science and engineering.

Book Recent Advances in Face Recognition

Download or read book Recent Advances in Face Recognition written by Kresimir Delac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main idea and the driver of further research in the area of face recognition are security applications and human-computer interaction. Face recognition represents an intuitive and non-intrusive method of recognizing people and this is why it became one of three identification methods used in e-passports and a biometric of choice for many other security applications. This goal of this book is to provide the reader with the most up to date research performed in automatic face recognition. The chapters presented use innovative approaches to deal with a wide variety of unsolved issues.

Book Recognition of Humans and Their Activities Using Video

Download or read book Recognition of Humans and Their Activities Using Video written by Rama Chellappa and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of humans and their activities from video sequences is currently a very active area of research because of its applications in video surveillance, design of realistic entertainment systems, multimedia communications, and medical diagnosis. In this lecture, we discuss the use of face and gait signatures for human identification and recognition of human activities from video sequences. We survey existing work and describe some of the more well-known methods in these areas. We also describe our own research and outline future possibilities. In the area of face recognition, we start with the traditional methods for image-based analysis and then describe some of the more recent developments related to the use of video sequences, 3D models, and techniques for representing variations of illumination. We note that the main challenge facing researchers in this area is the development of recognition strategies that are robust to changes due to pose, illumination, disguise, and aging. Gait recognition is a more recent area of research in video understanding, although it has been studied for a long time in psychophysics and kinesiology. The goal for video scientists working in this area is to automatically extract the parameters for representation of human gait. We describe some of the techniques that have been developed for this purpose, most of which are appearance based. We also highlight the challenges involved in dealing with changes in viewpoint and propose methods based on image synthesis, visual hull, and 3D models. In the domain of human activity recognition, we present an extensive survey of various methods that have been developed in different disciplines like artificial intelligence, image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision. We then outline our method for modeling complex activities using 2D and 3D deformable shape theory. The wide application of automatic human identification and activity recognition methods will require the fusion of different modalities like face and gait, dealing with the problems of pose and illumination variations, and accurate computation of 3D models. The last chapter of this lecture deals with these areas of future research.

Book Video Analytics  Face and Facial Expression Recognition

Download or read book Video Analytics Face and Facial Expression Recognition written by Xiang Bai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos, FFER 2018, and the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning for Pattern Recognition, DLPR 2018, held at the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2018, in Beijing, China, in August 2018. The 7 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. They deal with topics such as histopathological images, action recognition, scene text detection, speech recognition, object classification, presentation attack detection, and driver drowsiness detection.

Book Face Detection  Matching and Recognition for Semantic Video Understanding

Download or read book Face Detection Matching and Recognition for Semantic Video Understanding written by Dzmitry Tsishkou and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this work can be summarized as follows : to propose face detection and recognition in video solution that is enough fast, accurate and reliable to be implemented in the semantic video understanding system that is capable of replacing human expert in a variety of multimedia indexing applications. Meanwhile we assume that the research results that were raised during this work are complete enough to be adapted or modified as a part of other image processing, pattern recognition and video indexing and analysis systems.

Book Face Detection and Recognition on Mobile Devices

Download or read book Face Detection and Recognition on Mobile Devices written by Haowei Liu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hands-on guide gives an overview of computer vision and enables engineers to understand the implications and challenges behind mobile platform design choices. Using face-related algorithms as examples, the author surveys and illustrates how design choices and algorithms can be geared towards developing power-saving and efficient applications on resource constrained mobile platforms. - Presents algorithms for face detection and recognition - Explains applications of facial technologies on mobile devices - Includes an overview of other computer vision technologies

Book Handbook of Face Recognition

Download or read book Handbook of Face Recognition written by Stan Z. Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of computer-aided face recognition dates to the 1960s, yet the problem of automatic face recognition – a task that humans perform routinely and effortlessly in our daily lives – still poses great challenges, especially in unconstrained conditions. This highly anticipated new edition provides a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational recognition systems. After a thorough introduction, each subsequent chapter focuses on a specific topic, reviewing background information, up-to-date techniques, and recent results, as well as offering challenges and future directions. Topics and features: Fully updated, revised, and expanded, covering the entire spectrum of concepts, methods, and algorithms for automated detection and recognition systems Provides comprehensive coverage of face detection, alignment, feature extraction, and recognition technologies, and issues in evaluation, systems, security, and applications Contains numerous step-by-step algorithms Describes a broad range of applications from person verification, surveillance, and security, to entertainment Presents contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts Integrates numerous supporting graphs, tables, charts, and performance data This practical and authoritative reference is an essential resource for researchers, professionals and students involved in image processing, computer vision, biometrics, security, Internet, mobile devices, human-computer interface, E-services, computer graphics and animation, and the computer game industry.

Book Face Recognition for Real Time Application

Download or read book Face Recognition for Real Time Application written by Pradeep Kakkar and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Engineering - Computer Engineering, grade: 10, , course: M.Tech-ECE, language: English, abstract: Images containing faces are essential to intelligent vision-based human computer interaction, and research efforts in face processing include face recognition, face tracking, pose estimation, and expression recognition. The rapidly expanding research in face processing is based on the premise that information about a user’s identity, state, and intent can be extracted from images and that computers can then react accordingly, e.g., by knowing person’s identity, person may be authenticated to utilize a particular service or not. A first step of any face processing system is registering the locations in images where faces are present. The local binary pattern is a simple yet very efficient texture operator which labels the pixels of an image by thresholding the neighborhood of each pixel and considers the result as a binary number. The LBP method can be seen as a unifying approach to the traditionally divergent statistical and structural models of texture analysis. Perhaps the most important property of the LBP operator in real-world applications is its invariance against monotonic gray level changes caused, e.g., by illumination variations. Another equally important is its computational simplicity, which makes it possible to analyze images in challenging real-time settings. The success of LBP in face description is due to the discriminative power and computational simplicity of the LBP operator, and the robustness of LBP to mono-tonic gray scale changes caused by, for example, illumination variations. The use of histograms as features also makes the LBP approach robust to face misalignment and pose variations. For these reasons, the LBP methodology has already attained an established position in face analysis research. Because finding an efficient spatiotemporal representation for face analysis from videos is challenging, most of the existing works limit the scope of the problem by discarding the facial dynamics and only considering the structure. Motivated by the psychophysical findings which indicate that facial movements can provide valuable information to face analysis, spatiotemporal LBP approaches for face, facial expression and gender recognition from videos were described.

Book Video Analytics  Face and Facial Expression Recognition and Audience Measurement

Download or read book Video Analytics Face and Facial Expression Recognition and Audience Measurement written by Kamal Nasrollahi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement, VAAM 2016, and the Second International Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos, FFER 2016, held at the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2016, in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2016. The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They deal with: re-identification; consumer behavior analysis; utilizing pupillary response for task difficulty measurement; logo detection; saliency prediction; classification of facial expressions; face recognition; face verification; age estimation; super resolution; pose estimation; and pain recognition.

Book Face Detection and Recognition

Download or read book Face Detection and Recognition written by Asit Kumar Datta and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face detection and recognition are the nonintrusive biometrics of choice in many security applications. Examples of their use include border control, driver's license issuance, law enforcement investigations, and physical access control.Face Detection and Recognition: Theory and Practice elaborates on and explains the theory and practice of face de