Face recognition technology related to recognizing identities is widely adopted in intelligence gathering, law enforcement, surveillance, and consumer applications. Recently, this technology has been ported to smartphones and body-worn cameras (BWC). Face recognition technology in body-worn cameras is used for surveillance, situational awareness, and keeping the officer safe. Only a handful of academic studies exist in face recognition using the body-worn camera. A recent study has assembled BWCFace facial image dataset acquired using a body-worn camera and evaluated the ResNet-50 model for face identification. However, for real-time inference in resource constraint body-worn cameras and privacy concerns involving facial images, on-device face recognition is required. To this end, this study evaluates lightweight MobileNet-V2, EfficientNet-B0, LightCNN-9 and LightCNN-29 models for face identification using body-worn camera. Experiments are performed on a publicly available BWCface dataset. The real-time inference is evaluated on three mobile devices. The comparative analysis is done with heavy-weight VGG-16 and ResNet-50 models along with six hand-crafted features to evaluate the trade-off between the performance and model size. Experimental results suggest the difference in maximum rank-1 accuracy of lightweight LightCNN-29 over best-performing ResNet-50 is \textbf{1.85\%} and the reduction in model parameters is \textbf{23.49M}. Most of the deep models obtained similar performances at rank-5 and rank-10. The inference time of LightCNNs is 2.1x faster than other models on mobile devices. The least performance difference of \textbf{14\%} is noted between LightCNN-29 and Local Phase Quantization (LPQ) descriptor at rank-1. In most of the experimental settings, lightweight LightCNN models offered the best trade-off between accuracy and the model size in comparison to most of the models.
With computer vision reaching an inflection point in the past decade, face recognition technology has become pervasive in policing, intelligence gathering, and consumer applications. Recently, face recognition technology has been deployed on bodyworn cameras to keep officers safe, enabling situational awareness and providing evidence for trial. However, limited academic research has been conducted on this topic using traditional techniques on datasets with small sample size. This paper aims to bridge the gap in the state-of-the-art face recognition using bodyworn cameras (BWC). To this aim, th…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing face masks has become a mandate in public places worldwide. Face masks occlude a significant portion of the facial region. Additionally, people wear different types of masks, from simple ones to ones with graphics and prints. These pose new challenges to face recognition algorithms. Researchers have recently proposed a few masked face datasets for designing algorithms to overcome the challenges of masked face recognition. However, existing datasets lack the cultural diversity and collection in the unrestricted settings. Country like India with attire diver…
La Rochelle University（拉罗谢尔大学）；Hanoi University of Science and Technology（河内科技大学）
The widespread deployment of face recognition-based biometric systems has made face Presentation Attack Detection (face anti-spoofing) an increasingly critical issue. This survey thoroughly investigates the face Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) methods, that only require RGB cameras of generic consumer devices, over the past two decades. We present an attack scenario-oriented typology of the existing face PAD methods and we provide a review of over 50 of the most recent face PAD methods and their related issues. We adopt a comprehensive presentation of the methods that have most influenced …
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya（加泰罗尼亚理工大学）；Idneo Inc.（Idneo公司）
This article explores a face recognition alternative which seeks to contribute to resolve current security vulnerabilities in most recognition architectures. Current low cost facial authentication software in the market can be fooled by a printed picture of a face due to the lack of depth information. The presented software creates a depth map of the face with the help of a stereo setup, offering a higher level of security than traditional recognition programs. Analysis of the person's identity and facial depth map are processed through deep convolutional neural networks, providing a secure lo…
Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College（B.C.罗伊工程学院）；National Institute of Technology Rourkela（鲁尔克拉国家理工学院）；Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur（坎普尔印度理工学院）；Jadavpur University（贾达普大学）
This paper presents multi-appearance fusion of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and generalization of Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) for multi-camera view offline face recognition (verification) system. The generalization of LDA has been extended to establish correlations between the face classes in the transformed representation and this is called canonical covariate. The proposed system uses Gabor filter banks for characterization of facial features by spatial frequency, spatial locality and orientation to make compensate to the variations of face instances occurred due to illumination…
Egocentric cameras are being worn by an increasing number of users, among them many security forces worldwide. GoPro cameras already penetrated the mass market, reporting substantial increase in sales every year. As head-worn cameras do not capture the photographer, it may seem that the anonymity of the photographer is preserved even when the video is publicly distributed. We show that camera motion, as can be computed from the egocentric video, provides unique identity information. The photographer can be reliably recognized from a few seconds of video captured when walking. The proposed meth…
École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec（魁北克大学高等技术学院）；University of Texas at Arlington（德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校）
Face recognition (FR) systems for video surveillance (VS) applications attempt to accurately detect the presence of target individuals over a distributed network of cameras. In video-based FR systems, facial models of target individuals are designed a priori during enrollment using a limited number of reference still images or video data. These facial models are not typically representative of faces being observed during operations due to large variations in illumination, pose, scale, occlusion, blur, and to camera inter-operability. Specifically, in still-to-video FR application, a single hig…
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad（海得拉巴国际信息技术学院）
The current approach to marking attendance in colleges is tedious and time consuming. I propose AttenFace, a standalone system to analyze, track and grant attendance in real time using face recognition. Using snapshots of class from live camera feed, the system identifies students and marks them as present in a class based on their presence in multiple snapshots taken throughout the class duration. Face recognition for each class is performed independently and in parallel, ensuring that the system scales with number of concurrent classes. Further, the separation of the face recognition server …
Chongqing University（重庆大学）；Chongqing Medical University（重庆医科大学）；Sichuan Fine Arts Institute（四川美术学院）
Because of affected by weather conditions, camera pose and range, etc. Objects are usually small, blur, occluded and diverse pose in the images gathered from outdoor surveillance cameras or access control system. It is challenging and important to detect faces precisely for face recognition system in the field of public security. In this paper, we design a based on context modeling structure named Feature Hierarchy Encoder-Decoder Network for face detection(FHEDN), which can detect small, blur and occluded face with hierarchy by hierarchy from the end to the beginning likes encoder-decoder in …
University of Colorado Colorado Springs（科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）；Karlsruhe Institute of Technology（卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院）；University of Surrey（萨里大学）；West Virginia University（西弗吉尼亚大学）；University of Wolverhampton（伍尔弗汉普顿大学）
Face detection and recognition benchmarks have shifted toward more difficult environments. The challenge presented in this paper addresses the next step in the direction of automatic detection and identification of people from outdoor surveillance cameras. While face detection has shown remarkable success in images collected from the web, surveillance cameras include more diverse occlusions, poses, weather conditions and image blur. Although face verification or closed-set face identification have surpassed human capabilities on some datasets, open-set identification is much more complex as it…
Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics（北京航空航天大学）；COMSATS Institute of Information Technology（COMSATS信息技术学院）；Education University Lahore（拉合尔教育大学）
Face recognition from image or video is a popular topic in biometrics research. Many public places usually have surveillance cameras for video capture and these cameras have their significant value for security purpose. It is widely acknowledged that the face recognition have played an important role in surveillance system as it doesn't need the object's cooperation. The actual advantages of face based identification over other biometrics are uniqueness and acceptance. As human face is a dynamic object having high degree of variability in its appearance, that makes face detection a difficult p…
Train Pilot is a very tedious and stressful job. Pilots must be vigilant at all times and its easy for them to lose track of time of shift. In countries like USA the pilots are mandated by law to adhere to 8 hour shifts. If they exceed 8 hours of shift the railroads may be penalized for over-tiring their drivers. The problem happens when the 8 hour shift may end in middle of a journey. In such case, the new drivers must be moved to the location locomotive is operating for shift change. Hence accurate monitoring of drivers during their shift and making sure the shifts are scheduled correctly is…
University of Groningen（格罗宁根大学）；University of Barcelona（巴塞罗那大学）
Wearable cameras capture a first-person view of the daily activities of the camera wearer, offering a visual diary of the user behaviour. Detection of the appearance of people the camera user interacts with for social interactions analysis is of high interest. Generally speaking, social events, lifestyle and health are highly correlated, but there is a lack of tools to monitor and analyse them. We consider that egocentric vision provides a tool to obtain information and understand users social interactions. We propose a model that enables us to evaluate and visualize social traits obtained by …
Real-world face recognition applications often deal with suboptimal image quality or resolution due to different capturing conditions such as various subject-to-camera distances, poor camera settings, or motion blur. This characteristic has an unignorable effect on performance. Recent cross-resolution face recognition approaches used simple, arbitrary, and unrealistic down- and up-scaling techniques to measure robustness against real-world edge-cases in image quality. Thus, we propose a new standardized benchmark dataset and evaluation protocol derived from the famous Labeled Faces in the Wild…
École de technologie supérieure（高等技术学院）；Nuvoola Inc.（努沃拉公司）
The scalability and complexity of deep learning models remains a key issue in many of visual recognition applications like, e.g., video surveillance, where fine tuning with labeled image data from each new camera is required to reduce the domain shift between videos captured from the source domain, e.g., a laboratory setting, and the target domain, i.e, an operational environment. In many video surveillance applications, like face recognition (FR) and person re-identification, a pair-wise matcher is used to assign a query image captured using a video camera to the corresponding reference image…
École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec（魁北克大学高等技术学院）
The performance of still-to-video FR systems can decline significantly because faces captured in unconstrained operational domain (OD) over multiple video cameras have a different underlying data distribution compared to faces captured under controlled conditions in the enrollment domain (ED) with a still camera. This is particularly true when individuals are enrolled to the system using a single reference still. To improve the robustness of these systems, it is possible to augment the reference set by generating synthetic faces based on the original still. However, without knowledge of the OD…
Towards AI-Driven Policing: Interdisciplinary Knowledge Discovery from Police Body-Worn Camera Footage
Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院计算机科学系）；School of Information, Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院信息学院）；Office of Business Intelligence, Rochester Police Department（罗切斯特警察局商务智能办公室）；School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany（阿尔巴尼大学犯罪学学院）；School of Individualized Study, Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院个性化研究学院）；Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院社会学与人类学系）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工学院数学与统计学学院）
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；College of Computer Science, Sichuan Normal University（四川师范大学计算机学院）；Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding（成都大熊猫繁育研究基地）
Giant panda (panda) is a highly endangered animal. Significant efforts and resources have been put on panda conservation. To measure effectiveness of conservation schemes, estimating its population size in wild is an important task. The current population estimation approaches, including capture-recapture, human visual identification and collection of DNA from hair or feces, are invasive, subjective, costly or even dangerous to the workers who perform these tasks in wild. Cameras have been widely installed in the regions where pandas live. It opens a new possibility for non-invasive image base…
University of Bridgeport（布里奇波特大学）；University of Colorado（科罗拉多大学）
Using heterogeneous depth cameras and 3D scanners in 3D face verification causes variations in the resolution of the 3D point clouds. To solve this issue, previous studies use 3D registration techniques. Out of these proposed techniques, detecting points of correspondence is proven to be an efficient method given that the data belongs to the same individual. However, if the data belongs to different persons, the registration algorithms can convert the 3D point cloud of one person to another, destroying the distinguishing features between the two point clouds. Another issue regarding the storag…
Visual Timelines of Police Encounters in Body-Worn Camera Footage: Operational Context and Activity Cataloging for Training and Analysis in OpenBWC
Rochester Institute of Technology（罗切斯特理工大学）；Rochester Police Department（罗切斯特警察局）；Office of Business Intelligence（业务智能办公室）；School of Mathematics and Statistics（数学与统计学学院）
State University of New York at Geneseo（纽约州立大学杰内塞奥分校）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；University of California, Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）；DePaul University（德保罗大学）
Body-worn video (BWV) cameras are increasingly utilized by police departments to provide a record of police-public interactions. However, large-scale BWV deployment produces terabytes of data per week, necessitating the development of effective computational methods to identify salient changes in video. In work carried out at the 2016 RIPS program at IPAM, UCLA, we present a novel two-stage framework for video change-point detection. First, we employ state-of-the-art machine learning methods including convolutional neural networks and support vector machines for scene classification. We then d…
Due to the massive explanation of artificial intelligence, machine learning technology is being used in various areas of our day-to-day life. In the world, there are a lot of scenarios where a simple crime can be prevented before it may even happen or find the person responsible for it. A face is one distinctive feature that we have and can differentiate easily among many other species. But not just different species, it also plays a significant role in determining someone from the same species as us, humans. Regarding this critical feature, a single problem occurs most often nowadays. When th…
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte（北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校）；Texas State University（德克萨斯州立大学）
This research presents an improved real-time face recognition system at a low resolution of 15 pixels with pose and emotion and resolution variations. We have designed our datasets named LRD200 and LRD100, which have been used for training and classification. The face detection part uses the Viola-Jones algorithm, and the face recognition part receives the face image from the face detection part to process it using the Local Binary Pattern Histogram (LBPH) algorithm with preprocessing using contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) and face alignment. The face database in this s…
Lumen Social Robot is a humanoid robot development with the purpose that it could be a good friend to all people. In this year, the Lumen Social Robot is being developed into a guide in the exhibition and in the seminar of the Final Exam of undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering ITB, named Electrical Engineering Days 2015. In order to be the guide in that occasion, Lumen is supported by several things. They are Nao robot components, servers, and multiple processor systems. The image processing system is a processing application system that allows Lumen to recognize and d…
Benefiting from the advance of deep convolutional neural network approaches (CNNs), many face detection algorithms have achieved state-of-the-art performance in terms of accuracy and very high speed in unconstrained applications. However, due to the lack of public datasets and due to the variation of the orientation of face images, the complex background and lighting, defocus and the varying illumination of camera captured images, face detection on identity documents under unconstrained environments has not been sufficiently studied. To address this problem more efficiently, we survey three st…
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Multi-camera tracking is quite different from single camera tracking, and it faces new technology and system architecture challenges. By analyzing the corresponding characteristics and disadvantages of the existing algorithms, problems in multi-camera tracking are summarized and some new directions for future work are also generalized.
The William States Lee College of Engineering（威廉·斯泰茨·李工程学院）；The College of Arts and Architecture（艺术与建筑学院）；University of North Carolina at Charlotte（北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校）
Facial thermography is one of the most popular research areas in infrared thermal imaging, with diverse applications in medical, surveillance, and environmental monitoring. However, in contrast to facial imagery in the visual spectrum, the lack of public datasets on facial thermal images is an obstacle to research improvement in this area. Thermal face imagery is still a relatively new research area to be evaluated and studied in different domains.The current thermal face datasets are limited in regards to the subjects' distance from the camera, the ambient temperature variation, and facial la…
Obtaining demographics information from video is valuable for a range of real-world applications. While approaches that leverage facial features for gender inference are very successful in restrained environments, they do not work in most real-world scenarios when the subject is not facing the camera, has the face obstructed or the face is not clear due to distance from the camera or poor resolution. We propose a weakly-supervised method for learning gender information of people based on their manner of walking. We make use of state-of-the art facial analysis models to automatically annotate f…
Aalborg University（奥尔堡大学）；Milestone Systems A/S（Milestone Systems公司）
Most existing face image Super-Resolution (SR) methods assume that the Low-Resolution (LR) images were artificially downsampled from High-Resolution (HR) images with bicubic interpolation. This operation changes the natural image characteristics and reduces noise. Hence, SR methods trained on such data most often fail to produce good results when applied to real LR images. To solve this problem, we propose a novel framework for generation of realistic LR/HR training pairs. Our framework estimates realistic blur kernels, noise distributions, and JPEG compression artifacts to generate LR images …
Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland（马里兰大学自动化研究中心）；Rutgers University（罗格斯大学）
We propose a deep feature-based face detector for mobile devices to detect user's face acquired by the front facing camera. The proposed method is able to detect faces in images containing extreme pose and illumination variations as well as partial faces. The main challenge in developing deep feature-based algorithms for mobile devices is the constrained nature of the mobile platform and the non-availability of CUDA enabled GPUs on such devices. Our implementation takes into account the special nature of the images captured by the front-facing camera of mobile devices and exploits the GPUs pre…
University of Kentucky（肯塔基大学）；North Carolina Central University（北卡罗来纳中央大学）
A head-mounted display (HMD) could be an important component of augmented reality system. However, as the upper face region is seriously occluded by the device, the user experience could be affected in applications such as telecommunication and multi-player video games. In this paper, we first present a novel experimental setup that consists of two near-infrared (NIR) cameras to point to the eye regions and one visible-light RGB camera to capture the visible face region. The main purpose of this paper is to synthesize realistic face images without occlusions based on the images captured by the…
University of Minnesota（明尼苏达大学）；Facebook Reality Labs（Facebook现实实验室）
Improvements in data-capture and face modeling techniques have enabled us to create high-fidelity realistic face models. However, driving these realistic face models requires special input data, e.g. 3D meshes and unwrapped textures. Also, these face models expect clean input data taken under controlled lab environments, which is very different from data collected in the wild. All these constraints make it challenging to use the high-fidelity models in tracking for commodity cameras. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised domain adaptation approach to enable the animation of high-fidelity…
Asian Institute of Computer Studies（亚洲计算机研究学院）；Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela（巴伦苏埃拉城市大学）
The study aims the development of a wearable device to combat the onslaught of covid-19. Likewise, to enhance the regular face shield available in the market. Furthermore, to raise awareness of the health and safety protocols initiated by the government and its affiliates in the enforcement of social distancing with the integration of computer vision algorithms. The wearable device was composed of various hardware and software components such as a transparent polycarbonate face shield, microprocessor, sensors, camera, thin-film transistor on-screen display, jumper wires, power bank, and python…
Towards 3D Face Reconstruction in Perspective Projection: Estimating 6DoF Face Pose from Monocular Image
Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院香港创新研究院）
Multi-person total motion capture is extremely challenging when it comes to handle severe occlusions, different reconstruction granularities from body to face and hands, drastically changing observation scales and fast body movements. To overcome these challenges above, we contribute a lightweight total motion capture system for multi-person interactive scenarios using only sparse multi-view cameras. By contributing a novel hand and face bootstrapping algorithm, our method is capable of efficient localization and accurate association of the hands and faces even on severe occluded occasions. We…
We present Steadiface, a new real-time face-centric video stabilization method that simultaneously removes hand shake and keeps subject's head stable. We use a CNN to estimate the face landmarks and use them to optimize a stabilized head center. We then formulate an optimization problem to find a virtual camera pose that locates the face to the stabilized head center while retains smooth rotation and translation transitions across frames. We test the proposed method on fieldtest videos and show it stabilizes both the head motion and background. It is robust to large head pose, occlusion, facia…
Uni-modal identification systems are vulnerable to errors in sensor data collection and are therefore more likely to misidentify subjects. For instance, relying on data solely from an RGB face camera can cause problems in poorly lit environments or if subjects do not face the camera. Other identification methods such as electrocardiograms (ECG) have issues with improper lead connections to the skin. Errors in identification are minimized through the fusion of information gathered from both of these models. This paper proposes a methodology for combining the identification results of face and E…
Xperi Corporation（Xperi公司）；National University of Ireland Galway（爱尔兰国立高威大学）；Prophesee（Prophesee公司）
Event cameras contain emerging, neuromorphic vision sensors that capture local light intensity changes at each pixel, generating a stream of asynchronous events. This way of acquiring visual information constitutes a departure from traditional frame based cameras and offers several significant advantages: low energy consumption, high temporal resolution, high dynamic range and low latency. Driver monitoring systems (DMS) are in-cabin safety systems designed to sense and understand a drivers physical and cognitive state. Event cameras are particularly suited to DMS due to their inherent advanta…
University of Barcelona（巴塞罗那大学）；Computer Vision Center（计算机视觉中心）
Given an unconstrained stream of images captured by a wearable photo-camera (2fpm), we propose an unsupervised bottom-up approach for automatic clustering appearing faces into the individual identities present in these data. The problem is challenging since images are acquired under real world conditions; hence the visible appearance of the people in the images undergoes intensive variations. Our proposed pipeline consists of first arranging the photo-stream into events, later, localizing the appearance of multiple people in them, and finally, grouping various appearances of the same person ac…
City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学深圳研究院）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
There has been an increasing consensus in learning based face anti-spoofing that the divergence in terms of camera models is causing a large domain gap in real application scenarios. We describe a framework that eliminates the influence of inherent variance from acquisition cameras at the feature level, leading to the generalized face spoofing detection model that could be highly adaptive to different acquisition devices. In particular, the framework is composed of two branches. The first branch aims to learn the camera invariant spoofing features via feature level decomposition in the high fr…
