Unconstrained Face Recognition: Identifying a Person of Interest From a Media Collection

• Published in: IEEE transactions on information forensics and security Vol. 9; no. 12; pp. 2144 - 2157
• Main Authors: Best-Rowden, Lacey, Hu Han, Otto, Charles, Klare, Brendan F., Jain, Anil K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Anthrax; Biological & chemical terrorism; Data integration; Descriptions; Face; Face recognition; Forensic engineering; Illumination; Licenses; Media; Sketches; Three dimensional models; Three-dimensional displays; media collection; Unconstrained face recognition; video track; face sketch; still face image; uncooperative subjects; quality-based fusion; 3D face model; demographics

As face recognition applications progress from constrained sensing and cooperative subjects scenarios (e.g., driver's license and passport photos) to unconstrained scenarios with uncooperative subjects (e.g., video surveillance), new challenges are encountered. These challenges are due to varia...