Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Reference Hub1
Unconstrained Face Recognition

Unconstrained Face Recognition

Stefanos Zafeiriou, Irene Kotsia, Maja Pantic
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781466659667|ISBN10: 1466659661|EISBN13: 9781466659674
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5966-7.ch002
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Zafeiriou, Stefanos, et al. "Unconstrained Face Recognition." Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions, edited by Maria De Marsico, et al., IGI Global, 2014, pp. 16-37. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5966-7.ch002

APA

Zafeiriou, S., Kotsia, I., & Pantic, M. (2014). Unconstrained Face Recognition. In M. De Marsico, M. Nappi, & M. Tistarelli (Eds.), Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions (pp. 16-37). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5966-7.ch002

Chicago

Zafeiriou, Stefanos, Irene Kotsia, and Maja Pantic. "Unconstrained Face Recognition." In Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions, edited by Maria De Marsico, Michele Nappi, and Massimo Tistarelli, 16-37. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5966-7.ch002

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

The human face is the most well-researched object in computer vision, mainly because (1) it is a highly deformable object whose appearance changes dramatically under different poses, expressions, and, illuminations, etc., (2) the applications of face recognition are numerous and span several fields, (3) it is widely known that humans possess the ability to perform, extremely efficiently and accurately, facial analysis, especially identity recognition. Although a lot of research has been conducted in the past years, the problem of face recognition using images captured in uncontrolled environments including several illumination and/or pose variations still remains open. This is also attributed to the existence of outliers (such as partial occlusion, cosmetics, eyeglasses, etc.) or changes due to age. In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of the existing fully automatic face recognition technologies for uncontrolled scenarios. They present the existing databases and summarize the challenges that arise in such scenarios and conclude by presenting the opportunities that exist in the field.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.