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Can holistic representations be used for face biometric quality assessment

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This paper investigates the use of holistic super-ordinate representations, namely, Gist and sparsely pooled Histogram of Orientated Gradient, in classifying images into different quality categories that are derived from matching performance.
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A face quality metric must quantitatively measure the usability of an image as a biometric sample. Though it is well established that quality measures are an integral part of robust face recognition systems, automatic measurement of bio-metric quality in face is still challenging. Inspired by scene recognition research, this paper investigates the use of holistic super-ordinate representations, namely, Gist and sparsely pooled Histogram of Orientated Gradient (HOG), in classifying images into different quality categories that are derived from matching performance. The experiments on the CAS-PEAL and SCFace databases containing covariates such as illumination, expression, pose, low-resolution and occlusion by accessories, suggest that the proposed algorithm can efficiently classify input face image into relevant quality categories and be utilized in face recognition systems.

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Face Quality Assessment System in Video Sequences

TL;DR: A system based on four simple features including out-of-plan rotation, sharpness, brightness and resolution, to assess the face quality in a video sequence using both a local scoring system and weights is presented.
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TL;DR: This framework employs a novel classification-based score normalization process for various quality metrics and includes techniques to fuse those individual quality scores into an overall quality score which is shown to be correlated to the genuine match scores of the Facelt face recognition engine.
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On the Dynamic Selection of Biometric Fusion Algorithms

TL;DR: The design of a sequential fusion technique that uses the likelihood ratio test-statistic in conjunction with a support vector machine classifier to account for errors in the former and a dynamic selection algorithm that unifies the constituent classifiers and fusion schemes in order to optimize both verification accuracy and computational cost is proposed.
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Face image validation system

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