Biologically inspired tensor features
Mu, Y. and Tao, D. and Li, Xuelong and Murtagh, F. (2009) Biologically inspired tensor features. Cognitive Computation 1 (4), pp. 327-341. ISSN 1866-9956.
Abstract
According to the research results reported in the past decades, it is well acknowledged that face recognition is not a trivial task. With the development of electronic devices, we are gradually revealing the secret of object recognition in the primate’s visual cortex. Therefore, it is time to reconsider face recognition by using biologically inspired features. In this paper, we represent face images by utilizing the C1 units, which correspond to complex cells in the visual cortex, and pool over S1 units by using a maximum operation to reserve only the maximum response of each local area of S1 units. The new representation is termed C1 Face. Because C1 Face is naturally a third-order tensor (or a three dimensional array), we propose three-way discriminative locality alignment (TWDLA), an extension of the discriminative locality alignment, which is a top-level discriminate manifold learning-based subspace learning algorithm. TWDLA has the following advantages: (1) it takes third-order tensors as input directly so the structure information can be well preserved; (2) it models the local geometry over every modality of the input tensors so the spatial relations of input tensors within a class can be preserved; (3) it maximizes the margin between a tensor and tensors from other classes over each modality so it performs well for recognition tasks and (4) it has no under sampling problem. Extensive experiments on YALE and FERET datasets show (1) the proposed C1Face representation can better represent face images than raw pixels and (2) TWDLA can duly preserve both the local geometry and the discriminative information over every modality for recognition.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | biologically inspired features, c1 units, manifold learning, discriminative locality alignment, face recognition |
School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2013 10:05 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:33 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7633 |
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