Biased Feature Learning for Occlusion Invariant Face Recognition

Biased Feature Learning for Occlusion Invariant Face Recognition

Changbin Shao, Jing Huo, Lei Qi, Zhen-Hua Feng, Wenbin Li, Chuanqi Dong, Yang Gao

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 666-672. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/93

To address the challenges posed by unknown occlusions, we propose a Biased Feature Learning (BFL) framework for occlusion-invariant face recognition. We first construct an extended dataset using a multi-scale data augmentation method. For model training, we modify the label loss to adjust the impact of normal and occluded samples. Further, we propose a biased guidance strategy to manipulate the optimization of a network so that the feature embedding space is dominated by non-occluded faces. BFL not only enhances the robustness of a network to unknown occlusions but also maintains or even improves its performance for normal faces. Experimental results demonstrate its superiority as well as the generalization capability with different network architectures and loss functions.
Keywords:
Computer Vision: Biometrics, Face and Gesture Recognition