At FRI Piškot Seminar on Thursday, 11 May 2017, Vitomir Štruc from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering will talk about face recognition. We meet at 14.15 in lecture hall 22.

Addressing Pose Variability for Automatic Face Recognition

Abstract:

Pose variability represents one of the major problems not satisfactory addressed yet by the existing face-recognition technology. Recent advancements in facial landmark localization and image alignment have made it possible to devise new methods and techniques to mitigate this problem and successfully match facial images captured under significantly different viewpoints (or poses). In this talk, we will discuss some of the methods that can be used to address pose variability in facial recognition systems and present our recent work on (a) facial landmark detection from 2D and 3D data, (b) face frontalization, and (c) reposing of facial images. We will elaborate on some of the recent trends in the area of facial alignment and highlight other application areas where the presented techniques can be used.

About the lecturer:

Vitomir Struc is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana. He received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 2010 and was awarded the Vodovnik award from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering for the best PhD thesis of 2011. Vitomir is also the recipient of the “2015 young researcher award” of the University of Ljubljana. Vitomir participated in several national and EU funded R&D projects and authored (and co-authored) more than 100 research papers for leading international peer reviewed journals and conferences related to different areas of computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and biometrics.