Disentangled Variational Representation for Heterogeneous Face Recognition

Authors

  • Xiang Wu Chinese Academy of Science
  • Huaibo Huang University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Vishal M. Patel Johns Hopkins University
  • Ran He Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Zhenan Sun Chinese of Academy of Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019005

Abstract

Visible (VIS) to near infrared (NIR) face matching is a challenging problem due to the significant domain discrepancy between the domains and a lack of sufficient data for training cross-modal matching algorithms. Existing approaches attempt to tackle this problem by either synthesizing visible faces from NIR faces, extracting domain-invariant features from these modalities, or projecting heterogeneous data onto a common latent space for cross-modal matching. In this paper, we take a different approach in which we make use of the Disentangled Variational Representation (DVR) for crossmodal matching. First, we model a face representation with an intrinsic identity information and its within-person variations. By exploring the disentangled latent variable space, a variational lower bound is employed to optimize the approximate posterior for NIR and VIS representations. Second, aiming at obtaining more compact and discriminative disentangled latent space, we impose a minimization of the identity information for the same subject and a relaxed correlation alignment constraint between the NIR and VIS modality variations. An alternative optimization scheme is proposed for the disentangled variational representation part and the heterogeneous face recognition network part. The mutual promotion between these two parts effectively reduces the NIR and VIS domain discrepancy and alleviates over-fitting. Extensive experiments on three challenging NIR-VIS heterogeneous face recognition databases demonstrate that the proposed method achieves significant improvements over the state-of-the-art methods.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Wu, X., Huang, H., Patel, V. M., He, R., & Sun, Z. (2019). Disentangled Variational Representation for Heterogeneous Face Recognition. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 9005-9012. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019005

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AAAI Technical Track: Vision