为了减少人脸超分图像的边缘伪影和图像噪点,利用基于稀疏编码的单幅图像超分辨率重建算法,在字典学习阶段,结合L1范数引入在线字典学习方法,使字典根据当前输入图像块和上次迭代生成的字典逐列更新,得到更加精确的超完备字典对,用于图像重建。实验中进行的仿真结果表明,改进算法超分结果的峰值信噪比(PSNR)和结构相似性(SSIM)比同类型的稀疏编码超分法(SCSR)和应用在线字典学习算法的超分方法(ODLSR)均有较大幅度提升,比后者平均提升0.72 d B和0.018 7。同时,视觉上有效地消除了边缘伪影,且在处理含噪人脸图像时,具备更强的去噪能力和更好的鲁棒性。
One of the challenges of face recognition in surveillance is the low resolution of face region. Therefore many superresolution(SR) face reconstruction methods are proposed to produce a high-resolution face image from one or a set of low-resolution face images. However, existing dictionary learning based algorithms are sensitive to noise and very time-consuming.In this paper, we define and prove the multi-scale linear combination consistency. In order to improve the performance of SR, we propose a novel SR face reconstruction method based on nonlocal similarity and multi-scale linear combination consistency(NLS-MLC). We further proposed a new recognition approach for very low resolution face images based on resolution scale invariant feature(RSIF). A series of experiments are conducted on two public face image databases to test feasibility of our proposed methods. Experimental results show that the proposed SR method is more robust and computationally effective in face hallucination, and the recognition accuracy of RSIF is higher than some state-of-art algorithms.
在人脸年龄特征提取方面,充分利用卷积神经网络在图像应用领域的优良特性,使用深度学习方法进行人脸年龄特征提取,采用因子分析方法进行特征降维提取鲁棒性特征。在年龄估计函数学习方面,充分利用年龄阶段性和次序性研究基于秩的年龄估计学习方法,在此基础上提出分而治之的人脸年龄估计器。利用公共年龄库FG-NET和MORPH Album 2进行实验,其结果表明,该特征提取方法比传统的年龄特征提取方法更鲁棒,分而冶之年龄估计器性能优于经典的SVM和SVR。
针对基于学习的人脸超分辨率算法噪点、伪影较多,且噪声鲁棒性较差的问题,提出一种基于在线字典学习的人脸超分辨率重建算法。以人脸图集作为训练图库,运用在线字典学习方法提高字典训练的精度。独立调整字典学习阶段的正则化参数λt和求解重建稀疏系数阶段的λr,以获取最优的超完备字典和稀疏系数用于图像重建。实验结果表明,目标图像峰值信噪比比同一类型的稀疏编码超分法平均提高了0.85 d B,结构相似性增加了0.013 3,有效地抑制了噪点和伪影。在含噪人脸图像应用中,噪声水平提高时,峰值信噪比下降相对较平缓,提升人脸超分效果的同时改善了算法的噪声鲁棒性。
