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NIRFaceNet: A Convolutional Neural Network for Near-Infrared Face Identification

Peng, M; Wang, C; Chen, T; Liu, G; (2016) NIRFaceNet: A Convolutional Neural Network for Near-Infrared Face Identification. Information , 7 (4) , Article 61. 10.3390/info7040061. Green open access

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Abstract

Near-infrared (NIR) face recognition has attracted increasing attention because of its advantage of illumination invariance. However, traditional face recognition methods based on NIR are designed for and tested in cooperative-user applications. In this paper, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) for NIR face recognition (specifically face identification) in non-cooperative-user applications. The proposed NIRFaceNet is modified from GoogLeNet, but has a more compact structure designed specifically for the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Automation (CASIA) NIR database and can achieve higher identification rates with less training time and less processing time. The experimental results demonstrate that NIRFaceNet has an overall advantage compared to other methods in the NIR face recognition domain when image blur and noise are present. The performance suggests that the proposed NIRFaceNet method may be more suitable for non-cooperative-user applications.

Type: Article
Title: NIRFaceNet: A Convolutional Neural Network for Near-Infrared Face Identification
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/info7040061
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info7040061
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: near-infrared face recognition; illumination invariance; convolutional neural network
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1576550
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