Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Pose-invariant face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern AI-based face recognition systems. It aims at matching a profile face captured in the wild with a frontal face registered in a database. Existing methods perform face frontalization via either generative models or learning a pose robust feature representation. In this paper, a new method is presented to perform face frontalization and recognition within the feature space. First, a novel feature space pose frontalization module (FSPFM) is proposed to transform profile images with arbitrary angles into frontal counterparts. Second, a new training paradigm is proposed to maximize the potential of FSPFM and boost its performance. The latter consists of a pre-training and an attention-guided fine-tuning stage. Moreover, extensive experiments have been conducted on five popular face recognition benchmarks. Results show that not only our method outperforms the state-of-the-art in the pose-invariant face recognition task but also maintains superior performance in other standard scenarios.
Authors: Nikolay Stanishev, Yuhang Lu, Touradj Ebrahimi
Institution: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Language: English
Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4413277694