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    Facial feature discovery for ethnicity recognition

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    Authors
    Wang, C.
    Zhang, Q.
    Liu, Wan-Quan
    Liu, Y.
    Miao, L.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Wang, C. and Zhang, Q. and Liu, W. and Liu, Y. and Miao, L. 2018. Facial feature discovery for ethnicity recognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 9 (1) : Article ID e1278.
    Source Title
    Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    DOI
    10.1002/widm.1278
    ISSN
    1942-4787
    School
    School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Science (EECMS)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71484
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The salient facial feature discovery is one of the important research tasks in ethnical group face recognition. In this paper, we first construct an ethnical group face dataset including Chinese Uyghur, Tibetan, and Korean. Then, we show that the effective sparse sensing approach to general face recognition is not working anymore for ethnical group facial recognition if the features based on whole face image are used. This is partially due to a fact that each ethnical group may have its own characteristics manifesting only in specified face regions. Therefore, we will analyze the particularity of three ethnical groups and aim to find the common characterizations in some local regions for the three ethnical groups. For this purpose, we first use the facial landmark detector STASM to find some important landmarks in a face image, then, we use the well-known data mining technique, the mRMR algorithm, to select the salient geometric length features based on all possible lines connected by any two landmarks. Second, based on these selected salient features, we construct three “T” regions in a face image for ethnical feature representation and prove them to be effective areas for ethnicity recognition. Finally, some extensive experiments are conducted and the results reveal that the proposed “T” regions with extracted features are quite effective for ethnical group facial recognition when the L2-norm is adopted using the sparse sensing approach. In comparison to face recognition, the proposed three “T” regions are evaluated on the olivetti research laboratory face dataset, and the results show that the constructed “T” regions for ethnicity recognition are not suitable for general face recognition. This article is categorized under: Algorithmic Development > Structure Discovery Algorithmic Development > Biological Data Mining Fundamental Concepts of Data and Knowledge > Knowledge Representation Technologies > Classification.

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