Masked correlation filters for partially occluded face recognition

Face recognition is widely used for a variety of applications, such as identifying people for security purposes, as well as photo album organization. A challenge is to perform accurate face recognition when there exist partial occlusions of the face such as scarves or sunglasses. Correlation Filters (CFs) are an occlusion-tolerant object recognition method, potentially suited to deal with partial occlusions. In this paper, we introduce a new class of correlation filters called Masked Correlation Filters (MCFs), that are designed specifically to handle partial occlusions in face images. The benefits of using MCFs are illustrated using well-known face image data sets.

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