Multi-Scale Thermal to Visible Face Verification via Attribute Guided Synthesis
Thermal-to-visible face verification is a challenging problem due to the large domain discrepancy between the modalities. Existing approaches either attempt to synthesize visible faces from thermal faces or learn domain-invariant robust features from these modalities for cross-modal matching. In this paper, we use attributes extracted from visible images to synthesize attribute-preserved visible images from thermal imagery for cross-modal matching. A pre-trained attribute predictor network is used to extract the attributes from the visible image. Then, a novel multi-scale generator is proposed to synthesize the visible image from the thermal image guided by the extracted attributes. Finally, a pre-trained VGG-Face network is leveraged to extract features from the synthesized image and the input visible image for verification. Extensive experiments evaluated on three datasets (ARL Face Database, Visible and Thermal Paired Face Database, and Tufts Face Database) demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance. In particular, it achieves around 2.41\%, 2.85\% and 1.77\% improvements in Equal Error Rate (EER) over the state-of-the-art methods on the ARL Face Database, Visible and Thermal Paired Face Database, and Tufts Face Database, respectively. An extended dataset (ARL Face Dataset volume III) consisting of polarimetric thermal faces of 121 subjects is also introduced in this paper. Furthermore, an ablation study is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of different modules in the proposed method.
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