Paper ID: 2312.10462

Fusion of Deep and Shallow Features for Face Kinship Verification

Belabbaci El Ouanas, Khammari Mohammed, Chouchane Ammar, Mohcene Bessaoudi, Abdelmalik Ouamane, Akram Abderraouf Gharbi

Kinship verification from face images is a novel and formidable challenge in the realms of pattern recognition and computer vision. This work makes notable contributions by incorporating a preprocessing technique known as Multiscale Retinex (MSR), which enhances image quality. Our approach harnesses the strength of complementary deep (VGG16) and shallow texture descriptors (BSIF) by combining them at the score level using Logistic Regression (LR) technique. We assess the effectiveness of our approach by conducting comprehensive experiments on three challenging kinship datasets: Cornell Kin Face, UB Kin Face and TS Kin Face

Submitted: Dec 16, 2023