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@inproceedings{RibicERK2016,

title = {Influence of alignment on ear recognition : case study on AWE Dataset},

author = {Metod Ribič and Žiga Emeršič and Vitomir Štruc and Peter Peer},

url = {https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/influenceofalignmentonearrecognitioncasestudyonawedataset/},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-09-20},

urldate = {2016-09-20},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference (ERK)},

pages = {131-134},

address = {Portorož, Slovenia},

abstract = {Ear as a biometric modality presents a viable source for automatic human recognition. In recent years local description methods have been gaining on popularity due to their invariance to illumination and occlusion. However, these methods require that images are well aligned and preprocessed as good as possible. This causes one of the greatest challenges of ear recognition: sensitivity to pose variations. Recently, we presented Annotated Web Ears dataset that opens new challenges in ear recognition. In this paper we test the influence of alignment on recognition performance and prove that even with the alignment the database is still very challenging, even-though the recognition rate is improved due to alignment. We also prove that more sophisticated alignment methods are needed to address the AWE dataset efficiently},

keywords = {AWE, AWE dataset, biometrics, ear alignment, ear recognition, image alignment, Ransac, SIFT},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{krivzaj2014feasibility,

title = {A Feasibility Study on the Use of Binary Keypoint Descriptors for 3D Face Recognition},

author = {Janez Križaj and Vitomir Štruc and France Mihelič},

url = {https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/afeasibilitystudyontheuseofbinarykeypointdescriptorsfor3dfacerecognition/},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

urldate = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition (MCPR)},

pages = {142--151},

organization = {Springer},

abstract = {Despite the progress made in the area of local image descriptors in recent years, virtually no literature is available on the use of more recent descriptors for the problem of 3D face recognition, such as BRIEF, ORB, BRISK or FREAK, which are binary in nature and, therefore, tend to be faster to compute and match, while requiring signicantly less memory for storage than, for example, SIFT or SURF. In this paper, we try to close this gap and present a feasibility study on the use of these descriptors for 3D face recognition. Descriptors are evaluated on the three challenging 3D face image datasets, namely, the FRGC, UMB and CASIA. Our experiments show the binary descriptors ensure slightly lower verication rates than SIFT, comparable to those of the SURF descriptor, while being an order of magnitude faster than SIFT. The results suggest that the use of binary descriptors represents a viable alternative to the established descriptors.},

keywords = {3d face recognition, binary descriptors, biometrics, BRISK, CASIA, face verification, FREAK, FRGC, MCPR, ORB, performance evaluation, SIFT, SURF},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{krivzaj2014sift,

title = {SIFT vs. FREAK: Assessing the usefulness of two keypoint descriptors for 3D face verification},

author = {Janez Križaj and Vitomir Štruc and Simon Dobrišek and Darijan Marčetić and Slobodan Ribarić},

url = {https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/siftvs-freakassessingtheusefulnessoftwokeypointdescriptorsfor3dfaceverification/},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

urldate = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {37th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO)},

pages = {1336--1341},

address = {Opatija, Croatia},

organization = {Mipro},

abstract = {Many techniques in the area of 3D face recognition rely on local descriptors to characterize the surface-shape information around points of interest (or keypoints) in the 3D images. Despite the fact that a lot of advancements have been made in the area of keypoint descriptors over the last years, the literature on 3D-face recognition for the most part still focuses on established descriptors, such as SIFT and SURF, and largely neglects more recent descriptors, such as the FREAK descriptor. In this paper we try to bridge this gap and assess the usefulness of the FREAK descriptor for the task for 3D face recognition. Of particular interest to us is a direct comparison of the FREAK and SIFT descriptors within a simple verification framework. To evaluate our framework with the two descriptors, we conduct 3D face recognition experiments on the challenging FRGCv2 and UMBDB databases and show that the FREAK descriptor ensures a very competitive verification performance when compared to the SIFT descriptor, but at a fraction of the computational cost. Our results indicate that the FREAK descriptor is a viable alternative to the SIFT descriptor for the problem of 3D face verification and due to its binary nature is particularly useful for real-time recognition systems and verification techniques for low-resource devices such as mobile phones, tablets and alike.},

keywords = {3d face recognition, binary descriptors, face recognition, FREAK, performance comparison, performance evaluation, SIFT},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{ICIAR2010_Sift,

title = {Adaptation of SIFT Features for Robust Face Recognition},

author = {Janez Križaj and Vitomir Štruc and Nikola Pavešić},

url = {https://lmi.fe.uni-lj.si/en/adaptationofsiftfeaturesforrobustfacerecognition/},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-06-01},

urldate = {2010-06-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2010)},

pages = {394-404},

address = {Povoa de Varzim, Portugal},

abstract = {The Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is an algorithm used to detect and describe scale-, translation- and rotation-invariant local features in images. The original SIFT algorithm has been successfully applied in general object detection and recognition tasks, panorama stitching and others. One of its more recent uses also includes face recognition, where it was shown to deliver encouraging results. SIFT-based face recognition techniques found in the literature rely heavily on the so-called keypoint detector, which locates interest points in the given image that are ultimately used to compute the SIFT descriptors. While these descriptors are known to be among others (partially) invariant to illumination changes, the keypoint detector is not. Since varying illumination is one of the main issues affecting the performance of face recognition systems, the keypoint detector represents the main source of errors in face recognition systems relying on SIFT features. To overcome the presented shortcoming of SIFT-based methods, we present in this paper a novel face recognition technique that computes the SIFT descriptors at predefined (fixed) locations learned during the training stage. By doing so, it eliminates the need for keypoint detection on the test images and renders our approach more robust to illumination changes than related approaches from the literature. Experiments, performed on the Extended Yale B face database, show that the proposed technique compares favorably with several popular techniques from the literature in terms of performance.},

keywords = {biometrics, dense SIFT, face recognition, performance evaluation, SIFT, SIFT features},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}