Towards unconstrained face recognition from image sequences

The paper presents experiments using a radial basis function (RBF) network to tackle the unconstrained face recognition problem using low resolution video information. Input representations that mimic the effects of receptive field functions found at various stages of the human vision system were used with RBF network; that learnt to classify and generalise over different views of each person to be recognised. In particular, Difference of Gaussian (DoG) filtering and Gabor wavelet analysis are compared for face recognition from an image sequence. RBF techniques are shown to provide excellent levels of performance where the view varies and the authors discuss how to relax constraints on data capture and improve preprocessing to obtain an effective scheme for real-time, unconstrained face recognition.