Improved RGB-D-T based face recognition

Reliable facial recognition systems are of crucial importance in various applications from entertainment to security. Thanks to the deep-learning concepts introduced in the field, a significant improvement in the performance of the unimodal facial recognition systems has been observed in the recent years. At the same time a multimodal facial recognition is a promising approach. This paper combines the latest successes in both directions by applying deep learning Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to the multimodal RGB-D-T based facial recognition problem outperforming previously published results. Furthermore, a late fusion of the CNN-based recognition block with various hand-crafted features (LBP, HOG, HAAR, HOGOM) is introduced, demonstrating even better recognition performance on a benchmark RGB-D-T database. The obtained results in this paper show that the classical engineered features and CNNbased features can complement each other for recognition purposes.