Improving Deep Learning Feature with Facial Texture Feature for Face Recognition

Abstract

Face recognition in the reality, is a challenging problem, due to varieties in illumination, background, pose etc. Recently, the deep learning based face recognition algorithm is able to learn effective face features to obtain a very impressive performance. However, this kind of face recognition algorithm completely relies on the machine learning based face features, while ignores the useful experience in hand-craft features which have been studied in a long period. Therefore, a face recognition based on facial texture feature aided deep learning feature (FTFA-DLF) is proposed in this paper. The proposed FTFA-DLF is able to combine the benefits of deep learning and hand-craft features. In the proposed FTFA-DLF method, the hand-craft features are texture features extracted from the eyes, nose, and mouth regions. Then, the hand-craft features are used to aid deep learning features by adding both deep learning and hand-craft features into the objective function layer, which adaptively adjusts the deep learning features so that it can better cooperate with the hand-craft features and obtain a better face recognition performance. Experimental results show that the proposed face recognition algorithm on the LFW face database to achieve the accuracy rate of 97.02%.