FuseKin: Weighted image fusion based kinship verification under unconstrained age group

Abstract

Kinship verification using facial images is mainly performed with a single face sample per person. To perform with a single sample, it is very difficult to specify an age group where kin pairs may have higher similarities. To address the above problem, we propose a novel weighted multi sample fusion (WMSF) method. The proposed WMSF method combines kin signals present in multiple samples per person (MSPP) to form a FuseKin image. To select the most discriminant features from the extracted feature vector, we propose a patch based discriminative analysis (PDA) method. Weights are calculated using the PDA method so as to reduce the discrimination between positive FuseKin pairs. Experiments were conducted on two different datasets which contain multiple face image samples per person, namely Family101 and Family in the Wild (FIW) to validate the performance of the proposed methods. Our method achieves competitive results as compared to other state-of-the-art methods.