An Eyeglasses Removal Method for Fine-grained Face Recognition

Liang MAO; Yueju XUE; Yinghui WEI; Tingting ZHU

doi:10.11999/JEIT200176

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Liang MAO, Yueju XUE, Yinghui WEI, Tingting ZHU. An Eyeglasses Removal Method for Fine-grained Face Recognition[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2021, 43(5): 1448-1456. doi: 10.11999/JEIT200176

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Liang MAO, Yueju XUE, Yinghui WEI, Tingting ZHU. An Eyeglasses Removal Method for Fine-grained Face Recognition[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2021, 43(5): 1448-1456. doi: 10.11999/JEIT200176

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An Eyeglasses Removal Method for Fine-grained Face Recognition

doi: 10.11999/JEIT200176

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Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen 518055, China
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College of Electronic Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

Funds: The National Science and Technology Support Program (2015BAD06B03-3)

Received Date: 2020-03-17
Rev Recd Date: 2020-07-20

Available Online: 2020-07-27

Publish Date: 2021-05-18

Abstract

Abstract

In order to solve the problem that eyeglasses reduce often the performance of face recognition, based on the successful application of deep convolution neural network in super-resolution, This paper proposes an automatic eyeglasses removal method ERCNN (Eyeglasses Removal CNN) for fine-grained face recognition. Specifically, the ERCNN network which is designed based on the convolution layer, pool layer, MFM (Max Feature Map)feature selection module and deconvolution layer, are automatically learned the mapping relationship between facial images with eyeglasses and their counterparts without eyeglasses to realize end-to-end eyeglasses removal. Then, massive facial images are captured through surveillance equipment and collected from the Internet as the training set. And, SLLFW data set is established, which is used as the test set of eyeglasses removal and face recognition. The experiment show that the proposed method can better effectively remove the eyeglasses from the real facial image than the traditional eyeglasses removal methods, and the evaluation index of the method is better than other methods. In addition, several face recognition methods are tested separately on the facial images formed by SLLFW data set. Experiments show that when the FAR (False Accept Rate) is 1%, the TAR (True Accept Rate) of the Sphereface method reaches 90.05%, 91.14% and 92.33%, which is 3.92%, 3.08% and 1.26% higher than the Sphereface method is not used to remove the eyeglasses from the F-SLLFW, H-SLLF and R-SLLFW, respectively. Similarly, when the FAR 0.1%, the TAR of Sphereface method is increased by 10.06%, 3.08% and 1.26% respectively. Therefore, the proposed method can better improve the recognition accuracy of fine-grained face recognition.
- Face recognition,
- Deep Convolution Neural Network (DCNN),
- Feature selection,
- Eyeglasses removal

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