现有的多数人脸识别系统都要依赖于面部特征(比如眼睛中心位置)的严格配准来归一化人脸以便提取人脸描述特征,但面部特征配准的准确度如何影响人脸识别算法的性能却没有得到足够的重视.该文作者首次针对这一问题进行了系统的研究,并提出了一种基于误配准学习的解决方案.为了揭示现有典型识别算法的识别性能对特征配准准确度的敏感程度,通过对眼睛位置人为加扰,作者对Fisherface算法的识别性能随平移、旋转和尺度改变而变化的情况进行了实验评估.结果表明Fisherface的识别性能随着误配准的增大而急剧下降——称这一现象为“误配准灾难”问题.针对此问题,作者提出了一种基于扰动学习的“误配准灾难”解决方案,该方法通过在模型训练阶段加入扰动配准偏差来提高判别分析方法对误配准的鲁棒性.在FERET人脸图像数据库和CAS PEAL R1人脸库上的实验表明该方法可以有效地提高识别算法对误配准的鲁棒性.
This paper introduces a fingerprint identification algorithm by clustering similarity with the view to overcome the dilemmas encountered in fingerprint identification. To decrease multi-spectrum noises in a fingerprint, we first use a dyadic scale space (DSS) method for image enhancement. The second step describes the relative features among minutiae by building a minutia-simplex which contains a pair of minutiae and their local associated ridge information, with its transformation-variant and invariant relative features applied for comprehensive similarity measurement and for parameter estimation respectively. The clustering method is employed to estimate the transformation space. Finally, multi-resolution technique is used to find an optimal transformation model for getting the maximal mutual information between the input and the template features. The experimental results including the performance evaluation by the 2nd International Verification Competition in 2002 (FVC2002), over the four fingerprint databases of FVC2002 indicate that our method is promising in an automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS).
