Deep Disguised Faces Recognition

Kaipeng Zhang, Ya-Liang Chang, Winston Hsu; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2018, pp. 32-36

Recently, deep learning based approaches have yielded a significant improvement in face recognition in the wild. However, "disguised face" recognition is still a challenging task that needs to be investigated, and the Disguised Faces in the Wild (DFW) competition is designed for this task. In this paper, we propose a two-stage training approach to utilize the small-scale training data provided by the DFW competition. Specifically, in the first stage, we train Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) for generic face recognition. In the second stage, we use Principal Components Analysis (PCA) based on the DFW training set to find the best transformation matrix for identity representation of disguised faces. We evaluate our model on the DFW testing dataset and it shows better performance over the state-of-the-art generic face recognition methods. It also achieves the best results on the DFW competition - Phase 1.