Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition

We introduce a new method for face recognition using a versatile probabilistic model known as Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM). In particular, we propose to regularise the standard data likelihood learning with an information-theoretic distance metric defined on intra-personal images. This results...

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Main Authors: Tran, Truyen, Phung, D., Venkatesh, S.
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Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4527
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Venkatesh, S.
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description We introduce a new method for face recognition using a versatile probabilistic model known as Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM). In particular, we propose to regularise the standard data likelihood learning with an information-theoretic distance metric defined on intra-personal images. This results in an effective face representation which captures the regularities in the face space and minimises the intra-personal variations. In addition, our method allows easy incorporation of multiple feature sets with controllable level of sparsity. Our experiments on a high variation dataset show that the proposed method is competitive against other metric learning rivals. We also investigated the RBM method under a variety of settings, including fusing facial parts and utilizing localised feature detectors under varying resolutions. In particular, the accuracy is boosted from 71.8% with the standard whole-face pixels to 99.2% with combination of facial parts, localised feature extractors and appropriate resolutions.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-45272017-09-13T14:44:36Z Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition Tran, Truyen Phung, D. Venkatesh, S. Not known We introduce a new method for face recognition using a versatile probabilistic model known as Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM). In particular, we propose to regularise the standard data likelihood learning with an information-theoretic distance metric defined on intra-personal images. This results in an effective face representation which captures the regularities in the face space and minimises the intra-personal variations. In addition, our method allows easy incorporation of multiple feature sets with controllable level of sparsity. Our experiments on a high variation dataset show that the proposed method is competitive against other metric learning rivals. We also investigated the RBM method under a variety of settings, including fusing facial parts and utilizing localised feature detectors under varying resolutions. In particular, the accuracy is boosted from 71.8% with the standard whole-face pixels to 99.2% with combination of facial parts, localised feature extractors and appropriate resolutions. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4527 10.1109/ICME.2012.131 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle Tran, Truyen
Phung, D.
Venkatesh, S.
Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition
title Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition
title_full Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition
title_fullStr Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition
title_full_unstemmed Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition
title_short Learning Boltzmann distance metric for face recognition
title_sort learning boltzmann distance metric for face recognition
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4527