Face recognition in low-resolution videos using learning-based likelihood measurement model

Low-resolution surveillance videos with uncontrolled pose and illumination present a significant challenge to both face tracking and recognition algorithms. Considerable appearance difference between the probe videos and high-resolution controlled images in the gallery acquired during enrollment makes the problem even harden In this paper, we extend the simultaneous tracking and recognition framework [22] to address the problem of matching high-resolution gallery images with surveillance quality probe videos. We propose using a learning-based likelihood measurement model to handle the large appearance and resolution difference between the gallery images and probe videos. The measurement model consists of a mapping which transforms the gallery and probe features to a space in which their inter-Euclidean distances approximate the distances that would have been obtained had all the descriptors been computed from good quality frontal images. Experimental results on real surveillance quality videos and comparisons with related approaches show the effectiveness of the proposed framework.