A novel deep learning algorithm for incomplete face recognition: Low-rank-recovery network.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

There have been a lot of methods to address the recognition of complete face images. However, in real applications, the images to be recognized are usually incomplete, and it is more difficult to realize such a recognition. In this paper, a novel convolution neural network frame, named a low-rank-recovery network (LRRNet), is proposed to conquer the difficulty effectively inspired by matrix completion and deep learning techniques. The proposed LRRNet first recovers the incomplete face images via an approach of matrix completion with the truncated nuclear norm regularization solution, and then extracts some low-rank parts of the recovered images as the filters. With these filters, some important features are obtained by means of the binaryzation and histogram algorithms. Finally, these features are classified with the classical support vector machines (SVMs). The proposed LRRNet method has high face recognition rate for the heavily corrupted images, especially for the images in the large databases. The proposed LRRNet performs well and efficiently for the images with heavily corrupted, especially in the case of large databases. Extensive experiments on several benchmark databases demonstrate that the proposed LRRNet performs better than some other excellent robust face recognition methods.

Authors

  • Jianwei Zhao
    Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang Province, PR China. Electronic address: zhaojw@amss.ac.cn.
  • Yongbiao Lv
    Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang Province, PR China. Electronic address: 631480592@qq.com.
  • Zhenghua Zhou
    Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang Province, PR China. Electronic address: zzhzjw2003@163.com.
  • Feilong Cao
    Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang Province, PR China. Electronic address: feilongcao@gmail.com.