Determining discriminative anatomical point pairings using adaboost for 3D face recognition

In this paper, we present a novel method for 3D face recognition using adaboosted geodesic distance features. Firstly, a generic model is finely conformed to each face model contained within a 3D face dataset. Secondly, the geodesic distance between anatomical point pairs are computed across each conformed generic model. Adaboost then generates a strong-classifier based on a collection of geodesic distances that are most discriminative for face recognition. Experiments conducted on the face recognition grand challenge (FRGC) database D collection indicate that the system can achieve over a 95% rank-one recognition rate.