title: On-line learning of mutually orthogonal subspaces for face recognition by image sets.
abstract: We address the problem of face recognition by matching image sets. Each set of face images is represented by a subspace (or linear manifold) and recognition is carried out by subspace-to-subspace matching. In this paper, 1) a new discriminative method that maximises orthogonality between subspaces is proposed. The method improves the discrimination power of the subspace angle based face recognition method by maximizing the angles between different classes. 2) We propose a method for on-line updating the discriminative subspaces as a mechanism for continuously improving recognition accuracy. 3) A further enhancement called locally orthogonal subspace method is presented to maximise the orthogonality between competing classes. Experiments using 700 face image sets have shown that the proposed method outperforms relevant prior art and effectively boosts its accuracy by online learning. It is shown that the method for online learning delivers the same solution as the batch computation at far lower computational cost and the locally orthogonal method exhibits improved accuracy. We also demonstrate the merit of the proposed face recognition method on portal scenarios of multiple biometric grand challenge.
authors.affiliation: Sidney Sussex College, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. tkk22@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tae-Kyun
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kittler
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cipolla
mesh_terms: D056667:Biometric Identification / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014741:Video Recording