Face Recognition in the Presence of Expressions

Xia Han, Moi Hoon Yap, Ian Palmer

Centre for Visual Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.
chool of Computing, Informatics and Media, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK.
School of Computing, Mathematics, and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Manchester, UK.

DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2012.55038                

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to enhance the algorithms towards the development of an efficient three dimensional face recognition system in the presence of expressions. The overall aim is to analyse patterns of expressions based on techniques relating to feature distances compare to the benchmarks. To investigate how the use of distances can help the recognition process, a feature set of diagonal distance patterns, were determined and extracted to distinguish face models. The significant finding is that, to solve the problem arising from data with facial expressions, the feature sets of the expression-invariant and expression-variant regions were determined and described by geodesic distances and Euclidean distances. By using regression models, the correlations between expressions and neutral feature sets were identified. The results of the study have indicated that our proposed analysis methods of facial expressions, was capable of undertaking face recognition using a minimum set of features improving efficiency and computation.

Keywords

Face Recognition; Feature Distances; Expressions; Regression Analysis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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