FusiformNet: Extracting Discriminative Facial Features on Different Levels
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Over the last several years, research on facial recognition based on Deep Neural Network has evolved with approaches like task-specific loss functions, image normalization and augmentation, network architectures, etc. However, there have been few approaches with attention to how human faces differ from person to person. Premising that inter-personal differences are found both generally and locally on the human face, I propose FusiformNet, a novel framework for feature extraction that leverages the nature of person-identifying facial features. Tested on ImageUnrestricted setting of Labeled Face in the Wild benchmark, this method achieved a state-of-the-art accuracy of 96.67 normalization, or special loss functions. Likewise, the method also performed on par with previous state-of-the-arts when pretrained on CASIA-WebFace dataset. Considering its ability to extract both general and local facial features, the utility of FusiformNet may not be limited to facial recognition but also extend to other DNN-based tasks.
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