Quality Classified Image Analysis with Application to Face Detection and Recognition

Fei Yang, Qian Zhang, Miaohui Wang, Guoping Qiu

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Abstract

Motion blur, out of focus, insufficient spatial resolution, lossy compression and many other factors can all cause an image to have poor quality. However, image quality is a largely ignored issue in traditional pattern recognition literature. In this paper, we use face detection and recognition as case studies to show that image quality is an essential factor which will affect the performances of traditional algorithms. We demonstrated that it is not the image quality itself that is the most important, but rather the quality of the images in the training set should have similar quality as those in the testing set. To handle real-world application scenarios where images with different kinds and severities of degradation can be presented to the system, we have developed a quality classified image analysis framework to deal with images of mixed qualities adaptively. We use deep neural networks first to classify images based on their quality classes and then design a separate face detector and recognizer for images in each quality class. We will present experimental results to show that our quality classified framework can accurately classify images based on the type and severity of image degradations and can significantly boost the performances of state-of-the-art face detector and recognizer in dealing with image datasets containing mixed quality images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2863-2868
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538637883
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Nov 2018
Event24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2018 - Beijing, China
Duration: 20 Aug 201824 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Volume2018-August
ISSN (Print)1051-4651

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period20/08/1824/08/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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