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International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) – Volume 54 Number 1 December 2017
ISSN: 2231-5381 http://www.ijettjournal.org Page 9
„KKWETC‟ Indian Face Database
Manisha Satone
E&TC Department, KKWIEER, Nashik, India
Abstract:
To test face recognition algorithm developed by
researchers, it is needed to have proper database.
This paper describes an Indian face database
‘KKWETC’ of visual and thermal static images of
human faces. Images were taken in uncontrolled
indoor environment. Database contains 816 static
visible images of 68 subjects and 150 thermal images
of 50 subjects. A baseline Principal Component
Analysis (PCA) face recognition algorithm was tested
on both databases. Researchers can use these
databases to test algorithm and compare results.
Database is available to research community through
the procedure described at
http://engg.kkwagh.edu.in/media/post_image/databas
e_info_website.pdf.
Keywords: Face recognition, database, thermal
images.
I. INTRODUCTION
Face recognition presents a challenging
problem in the field of image analysis and computer
vision. It is a computer application for automatically
identifying or verifying a person from an image. One
of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial
features from the image and a facial database. It is
typically used in security systems and can be
compared to other biometrics such as
fingerprint or iris recognition systems.
The appearance of a face is largely affected by a
number of factors including identity, pose,
illumination, facial expression, age, occlusion, and
facial hair [1][2]. The development of algorithms
invariant to variations requires databases of sufficient
size that include carefully controlled variations of
these factors. While there are many databases in use
currently, the choice of an appropriate database to be
used should be made based on the task given.
Furthermore, common databases are necessary to
comparatively evaluate the algorithms. The
availability of public face databases is important for
the advancement of the field. It is therefore necessary
to create Indian face database with variations in
identity, face pose, illumination and occlusion, which
will be useful for researchers in the field of face
recognition.
Recent research has demonstrated distinct
advantages of using thermal infrared imaging for
improving face recognition performance[3][4]. While
conventional cameras
sense reflected light, thermal infrared cameras
measure emitted radiation from objects such as faces.
The human face emits thermal radiation, which can
be sensed by imaging sensors, which are sensitive in
the thermal infrared (IR) band of the electromagnetic
(EM) spectrum. Heat pattern is produced by the
temperature variations on the surface of the face. This
heat pattern can be visualized as a 2D image. Due to
the presence of highly distinctive and permanent
physiological characteristics under the facial skin,
thermal image contain important information, which
can be used for face recognition. Thermal image is
independent of ambient lighting conditions as the
thermal IR sensors only capture the heat pattern
emitted by the object. Different objects emit different
range of Infrared energy according to their
temperature and characteristics. The thermal patterns
of faces are derived primarily from the pattern of
superficial blood vessels under the skin. The vein and
tissue structure of the face is unique for each person
and, therefore, the IR images are unique. Using
unique IR image of person recognition rate can be
improved [5].
II. ‘KKWETC’DATABASE DESCRIPTION
Database contains visual images and thermal
images. Visual images are with pose variations,
illumination variation and with occlusion of 68
persons with 12 images per person, whereas thermal
database consists of images of 50 persons with
position variations in three directions.
2.1 VISUAL IMAGE DATABASE
High quality static images are taken under
uncontrolled environment using Cannon 700D
camera.
2.2.1 Frontal Images
Facial mug shots are static color images, taken in
uncontrolled indoor illumination conditions
environment. There is one mug shot per subject and
these images are labeled as person number_F.jpg (e.g.
1_F.jpg). Images are in lossless 24-bit color JPEG
format with the original size of 5184 X 3456 pixels.
These mug shot images are what you would expect to
find in a law enforcement database or when
registering to a security system. There are in total 68
frontal facial mug shot images in the database, one
per subject. Sample frontal images are shown in fig.
1.
Fig.1.Sample Frontal Images
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2.1.2 Different Pose Images
This set of images was taken under the same
conditions as frontal facial mug shots. Subjects‟ poses
are −90, -45, -30, +30, +45, +90 degrees ( + right
profile, -left profile). There are 6 images per subject
in this set, which gives 408 images in total. The
images are labeled as person number_P_image
number.jpg (e.g. 001_P_01.jpg to 001_P_06.jpg for
first person). Images with different pose angles are
shown in fig. 2.
Fig.2.Sample Pose Images
2.1.3. Illumination Variation Images
Images are taken by adjusting illumination
conditions for frontal image and pose variation
images. Two images are taken for two different
illumination conditions for each pose. There are 7
images per subject for each illumination condition,
which gives 952 images in total. The images are
labeled as person number_I_image number.jpg (e.g.
001_I_01.jpg to 001_I_14.jpg for first person).
Sample illumination variation images are shown in
fig.3.
Fig.3.Sample Illumination Variation Images
2.1.4 Occluded Images
One frontal image of each person is taken by
wearing spectacle and two frontal images are taken
by wearing scarf in different ways. Total 204
occluded images are available with 3 images per
person. Two images are taken for two different
illumination conditions for each pose. The images are
labeled as person number_O_image number.jpg (e.g.
001_O_01.jpg to 001_O_03.jpg for first person).
Sample occluded images are shown in fig.4.
Fig.4.Sample Occluded Images
2.2 THERMAL IMAGES
Thermal images are captured using „Flir C2‟
camera. There is one mug shot thermal image per
subject and two images with +90 and -90 degree
positions. Thermal images were labeled as person
number_T_image number.jpg (e.g. 001_T_01.jpg).
Total thermal images are 150 with 3 images per
person. Images are in lossless 24-bit color JPEG
format with the l size of 320 X 240 pixels. Sample
thermal images are shown in fig.5.
Fig.5.Sample Thermal Images
III. RESULTS
PCA [6][7] is used to find recognition rate of
visual and thermal image databases. For testing visual
database results front image of each person is taken
for training. So total 68 images were used for training
and 816 images were used for testing. We got
recognition rate of 73 %. For thermal images, we
used 50 frontal images for training and 150 images
for testing. The recognition rate was 90 %. To
improve these recognition rate more advance
algorithms can be used.
CONCLUSION:
An attempt is made to construct face image
database for visual and thermal images. A database is
to facilitate research in human face recognition. The
key features of the database are color images, which
can be used for color processing or can be converted
to gray scale for gray scale image processing, consist
of visual as well as thermal images, database consist
of images with position variation, illumination
variation and images with occlusion. Hence, the
database developed in the present work will certainly
help researchers to develop various recognition
schemes for human face recognition.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The author is grateful to sponsoring authority “Board
of college & University Development”, Savitribai
Phule, Pune university of the project and also to K K
Wagh Institute of Engineering Education and
Research(KKWIEER), Nashik where this work is
carried out. Author is also thankful to staff and
students of E&TC and Electronics department of
KKWIEER who directly or indirectly helped to
complete this project.
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