Cited by 346Face recognition and analysisFace and Expression RecognitionDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Feature Transfer Learning for Face Recognition With Under-Represented Data

Yin, Xi, Yu, Xiang, Sohn, Kihyuk, Liu, Xiaoming, Chandraker, Manmohan·2019·2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

Despite the large volume of face recognition datasets, there is a significant portion of subjects, of which the samples are insufficient and thus under-represented. Ignoring such significant portion results in insufficient training data. Training with under-represented data leads to biased classifiers in conventionally-trained deep networks. In this paper, we propose a center-based feature transfer framework to augment the feature space of under-represented subjects from the regular subjects that have sufficiently diverse samples. A Gaussian prior of the variance is assumed across all subjects and the variance from regular ones are transferred to the under-represented ones. This encourages the under-represented distribution to be closer to the regular distribution. Further, an alternating training regimen is proposed to simultaneously achieve less biased classifiers and a more discriminative feature representation. We conduct ablative study to mimic the under-represented datasets by varying the portion of under-represented classes on the MS-Celeb-1M dataset. Advantageous results on LFW, IJB-A and MS-Celeb-1M demonstrate the effectiveness of our feature transfer and training strategy, compared to both general baselines and state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, our feature transfer successfully presents smooth visual interpolation, which conducts disentanglement to preserve identity of a class while augmenting its feature space with non-identity variations such as pose and lighting.

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Authors
Yin, X., Yu, X., Sohn, K., Liu, X., & Chandraker, M.
Affiliations
  • Microsoft (United States) (US)
  • NEC (Japan) (JP)
  • NEC (United States) (US)
  • Michigan State University (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
Venue
2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2019-06
Pages
5697-5706
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2962895364
Cited by
346
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 63 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 57 · 2021: 69 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 6
FWCI
14.75
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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closed
Locations
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face and Expression Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
face recognition, underrepresented classes, classifier bias, alternating training, feature space augmentation, disentangled representations

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