ISVC 2010: Advances in Visual Computing pp 461-468 | Cite as

Acquisition Scenario Analysis for Face Recognition at a Distance

  • P. Tome
  • J. Fierrez
  • M. C. Fairhurst
  • J. Ortega-Garcia
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6453)

Abstract

An experimental analysis of three acquisition scenarios for face recognition at a distance is reported, namely: close, medium, and far distance between camera and query face, the three of them considering templates enrolled in controlled conditions. These three representative scenarios are studied using data from the NIST Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge, as the first step in order to understand the main variability factors that affect face recognition at a distance based on realistic yet workable and widely available data. The scenario analysis is conducted quantitatively in two ways. First, we analyze the information content in segmented faces in the different scenarios. Second, we analyze the performance across scenarios of three matchers, one commercial, and two other standard approaches using popular features (PCA and DCT) and matchers (SVM and GMM). The results show to what extent the acquisition setup impacts on the verification performance of face recognition at a distance.

Keywords

Biometrics face recognition at a distance on the move 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • P. Tome
    • 1
  • J. Fierrez
    • 1
  • M. C. Fairhurst
    • 2
  • J. Ortega-Garcia
    • 1
  1. 1.Biometric Recognition Group - ATVSEscuela Politecnica Superior - Universidad Autonoma de MadridMadridSpain
  2. 2.Department of ElectronicsUniversity of KentCanterburyUK

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