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The principal component analysis network (PCANet) is asserted as a parsimonious stacking-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) instance for generic object recognition including face. However, to be regarded a CNN resemblance, PCANet lacks a nonlinearity in between two successive convolutional layers. The multilayer PCANet (by neglecting the nonlinearity pre-requisite) is also deemed far-fetched for the network depth beyond two, due to feature dimensionality explosion. We thus devise a PCANet alternative, dubbed PCANet+ in this letter, to untangle these constraints. To be more precise, conforming to the CNN essentials, PCANet+ conveys a mean-pooling unit manipulating each feature map. On top of that, we streamline the PCANet topology to permit a deep construction with an expanded PCA filter ensemble. We scrutinize the PCANet+ performance using face recognition technology and other two faces in the wild datasets, namely, labeled faces in the wild and YouTube faces. The experimental results reveal that the PCANet+ descriptor prevails over its predecessor and other stacking-based descriptors in face identification and verification, serving a baseline for ConvNets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Due to the rapid growth of social network services such as Facebook and Twitter, incorporation of face recognition in these large-scale web services is attracting much attention in both academia and industry. The major problem in such applications is to deal efficiently with the growing number of samples as well as local appearance variations caused by diverse environments for the millions of users over time. In this paper, we focus on developing an incremental face recognition method for Twitter application. Particularly, a data-independent feature extraction method is proposed via binarization of a Gabor filter. Subsequently, the dimension of our Gabor representation is reduced considering various orientations at different grid positions. Finally, an incremental neural network is applied to learn the reduced Gabor features. We apply our method to a novel application which notifies new photograph uploading to related users without having their ID being identified. Our extensive experiments show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms several incremental face recognition methods with a dramatic reduction in computational speed. This shows the suitability of the proposed method for a large-scale web service with millions of users. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Due to the increases in processing power and storage capacity of mobile devices over the years, an incorporation of realtime face recognition to mobile devices is no longer unattainable. However, the possibility of the realtime learning of a large number of samples within mobile devices must be established. In this paper, we attempt to establish this possibility by presenting a realtime training algorithm in mobile devices for face recognition related applications. This is differentiated from those traditional algorithms which focused on realtime classification. In order to solve the challenging realtime issue in mobile devices, we extract local face features using some local random bases and then a sequential neural network is trained incrementally with these features. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and the feasibility of its application in mobile devices through empirical experiments. Our results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms several popular face recognition methods with a dramatic reduction in computational speed. Moreover, only the proposed method shows the ability to train additional samples incrementally in realtime without memory failure and accuracy degradation using a recent mobile phone model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]