Improving the Head Pose Variation Problem in Face Recognition for Mobile Robots

Head Pose Estimation in Face Recognition Across Pose Scenarios

We present a robust front-end pose classification/estimation procedure to be used in face recognition scenarios. A novel discriminative feature description that encodes underlying shape well and is insensitive to illumination and other common variations in facial appearance, such as skin colour etc., is proposed. Using such features we generate a pose similarity feature space (PSFS) that turns ...

Face Recognition with Variation in Pose Angle Using Face Graphs

Pose-Tolerant Face Recognition

Automatic face recognition performance has been steadily improving over years of active research, however it remains significantly affected by a number of external factors such as illumination, pose, expression, occlusion and resolution that can severely alter the appearance of a face and negatively impact recognition scores. The focus of this thesis is the pose problem which remains largely ov...

Pose Invariant Face Recognition

In this paper, we describe a novel neural network architecture, which can recognize human faces with any view in a certain viewing angle range (fromy left 30 degrees to right 30 degrees out of plane rotation). View-specific eigenface analysis is used as the frontend of the system to extract features, and the neural network ensemble is used for recognition. Experimental results show that the rec...

Real-time face tracking and recognition using the mobile robots