Abstract
Visible face recognition systems achieve nearly perfect recognition accuracies using deep learning. However, in lack of light, these systems perform poorly. A way to deal with this problem is thermal to visible cross-domain face matching. This is a desired technology because of its usefulness in night time surveillance. Nevertheless, due to differences between two domains, it is a very challenging face recognition problem. In this paper, we present a deep autoencoder based system to learn the mapping between visible and thermal face images. Also, we assess the impact of alignment in thermal to visible face recognition. For this purpose, we manually annotate the facial landmarks on the Carl and EURECOM datasets. The proposed approach is extensively tested on three publicly available datasets: Carl, UND-X1, and EURECOM. Experimental results show that the proposed approach improves the state-of-the-art significantly. We observe that alignment increases the performance by around 2%. Annotated facial landmark positions in this study can be downloaded from the following link: github.com/Alpkant/Thermal-to-Visible-Face-Recognition-Using-Deep-Autoencoders.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2019 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2019 - Proceedings |
Editors | Bromme Bromme, Christoph Busch, Antitza Dantcheva, Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783885796909 |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
Event | 2019 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2019 - Darmstadt, Germany Duration: 18 Sept 2019 → 20 Sept 2019 |
Publication series
Name | 2019 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2019 - Proceedings |
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Conference
Conference | 2019 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group, BIOSIG 2019 |
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Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Darmstadt |
Period | 18/09/19 → 20/09/19 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 Gesellschaft fuer Informatik.
Keywords
- Autoencoders
- Convolutional neural networks
- Heterogeneous face recognition
- Thermal to visible matching