Kinship verification from faces via similarity metric based convolutional neural network

Lei Li, Xiaoyi Feng, Xiaoting Wu, Zhaoqiang Xia, Abdenour Hadid

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Abstract

The ability to automatically determine whether two persons are from the same family or not is referred to as Kinship (or family) verification. This is a recent and challenging research topic in computer vision. We propose in this paper a novel approach to kinship verification from facial images. Our solution uses similarity metric based convolutional neural networks. The system is trained using Siamese architecture specific constraints. Extensive experiments on the benchmark KinFaceW-I & II kinship face datasets showed promising results compared to many state-of-the-art methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationImage Analysis and Recognition - 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, Proceedings
EditorsAurelio Campilho, Aurelio Campilho, Fakhri Karray
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages539-548
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319415000
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2016 - Povoa de Varzim, Portugal
Duration: 13 Jul 201616 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9730
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2016
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPovoa de Varzim
Period13/07/1616/07/16

Keywords

  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Kinship verification
  • Siamese architecture
  • Similarity metric learning

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