title: Learning multiview face subspaces and facial pose estimation using independent component analysis.
abstract: An independent component analysis (ICA) based approach is presented for learning view-specific subspace representations of the face object from multiview face examples. ICA, its variants, namely independent subspace analysis (ISA) and topographic independent component analysis (TICA), take into account higher order statistics needed for object view characterization. In contrast, principal component analysis (PCA), which de-correlates the second order moments, can hardly reveal good features for characterizing different views, when the training data comprises a mixture of multiview examples and the learning is done in an unsupervised way with view-unlabeled data. We demonstrate that ICA, TICA, and ISA are able to learn view-specific basis components unsupervisedly from the mixture data. We investigate results learned by ISA in an unsupervised way closely and reveal some surprising findings and thereby explain underlying reasons for the emergent formation of view subspaces. Extensive experimental results are presented.
authors.affiliation: Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 100080, China. szli@microsoft.com
authors.forename: Stan Z
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: XiaoGuang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Xinwen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Xianhua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Qiansheng
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D010781:Photography / Q000379:methods; D011187:Posture; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity