A NEW PROBLEM IN FACE IMAGE ANALYSIS - Finding Kinship Clues for Siblings Pairs

A. Bottino, M. De Simone, A. Laurentini, T. Vieira

2012

Abstract

Human face conveys to other human beings, and potentially to computers, much information such as identity, emotional states, intentions, age and attractiveness. Among this information there are kinship clues. Face kinship signals, as well as the human capabilities of capturing them, are studied by psychologist and sociologists. In this paper we present a new research aimed at analyzing, with image processing/pattern analysis techniques, facial images for detecting objective elements of similarity between siblings. To this end, we have constructed a database of high quality pictures of pairs of siblings, shot in controlled conditions, including frontal, profile, expressionless and smiling face images. A first analysis of the database has been performed using a commercial identity recognition software. Then, for discriminating siblings, we combined eigenfaces, SVM and a feature selection algorithm, obtaining a recognition accuracy close to that of a human rating panel.

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Bottino A., De Simone M., Laurentini A. and Vieira T. (2012). A NEW PROBLEM IN FACE IMAGE ANALYSIS - Finding Kinship Clues for Siblings Pairs . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-8425-99-7, pages 405-410. DOI: 10.5220/0003771004050410


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@conference{icpram12,
author={A. Bottino and M. De Simone and A. Laurentini and T. Vieira},
title={A NEW PROBLEM IN FACE IMAGE ANALYSIS - Finding Kinship Clues for Siblings Pairs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2012},
pages={405-410},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003771004050410},
isbn={978-989-8425-99-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - A NEW PROBLEM IN FACE IMAGE ANALYSIS - Finding Kinship Clues for Siblings Pairs
SN - 978-989-8425-99-7
AU - Bottino A.
AU - De Simone M.
AU - Laurentini A.
AU - Vieira T.
PY - 2012
SP - 405
EP - 410
DO - 10.5220/0003771004050410